Culturally Responsive Teaching: Moving from Heart and Mind to Hand
What is cultural responsiveness in teaching? With academic and political worlds colliding on our campuses and in our classrooms, understanding why and the ways we bring cultural responsiveness to our teaching will facilitate and support our efforts toward equitable outcomes for all students. Dr. Erica Caton, Director of Educational and Faculty Development and DEI Fellow at Florida International University will share Wlodkowski and Ginsberg’s (1995) framework for culturally responsive teaching and offer insights and steps to help educators from varied disciplinary contexts move from idea to action.
Following the Keynote, Dr. Caton will hold an open discussion session to more deeply engage with the concepts of culturally responsive teaching. We invite all thoughts, ideas, and expressions of inclusivity in this interactive session.
Dr. Erica Caton is the Director of Educational and Faculty Development at the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Fellow at Florida International University (FIU), Miami, FL. Dr. Caton holds a Ph.D. from the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky’s Joint Program in Social Work.
Dr. Caton’s professional foci include culturally responsive, trauma-informed teaching and the power of relationships to transform teaching and learning. Dr. Caton leverages her social work education and training, teaching experience, and knowledge of student development and learning set in a strengths-based approach to create meaningful learning experiences for educators and equitable outcomes for all students.
