INED 8330:Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Admission into the Inclusive Education/ESOL Ed.D. program.
Candidates will gain a clear understanding of how to plan and deliver culturally responsive instruction that closes the achievement gap for students with disabilities, as well as those who are culturally and linguistically diverse. The course focuses on the culture of the classroom and addresses discourse structure, applied behavior analysis, classroom ecologies, research-based applications, and action research. Candidates will participate in distributed school leadership that will allow leadership potential to be developed and recognized. In that regard, candidates will demonstrate the ability to reform classroom organization and structures to improve the performance of their students.