Create project to meet the content and written communication

Reference no: EM13780126

Creative Teaching: Designing Culturally Relevant Instruction

For the Project, you will assume the role of a classroom teacher applying for a Teacher Creativity Fellowship Grant. This award provides financial resources to teachers, which allows the recipient to spend time during the summer months developing an instructional experience that will be implemented and evaluated during the upcoming fall semester. This year's grant recipients are awarded funding on the condition they develop instructional experiences and programs to support the learning of 21st century skills, specifically, creative and innovative skills.

To further prepare for your Final Project, imagine you teach in a culturally diverse school, and you recognize a need to develop more culturally relevant instructional experiences that promote creative and innovative thinking. After carefully examining the information in the request for proposal for the grant described above, you realize the funding awards are based on the clarity and details of a ten-part form submitted for evaluation. After careful deliberation, you decide to apply for the grant to finance your time and help you obtain the resources needed to develop the proposed instructional experiences. A primary component of your plan requires consideration of the culture and specific needs of each child enrolled in your class (or one of your classes) for the upcoming semester.

Writing the Project

Create your Project to meet the content and written communication expectations below. The content expectations include the ten parts of the request for proposal. If you have questions about the expectations for this assignment, use the Ask Your Instructor discussion section in the left-navigation pane of your course.

Content Expectations:

Part I: Audience and Rationale (1 point): Write an overview of the class and target population, including the age range, grade and/or subject area, and other relevant attributes of the culture in which school is situated.

Part II: Outcomes: List the instructional outcomes (i.e., learning objectives) of the instructional experience including (a) Content Outcomes, (b) 21st century skills with an emphasis on creativity and innovation and the International Society for Technology in Education technology skills, and (c) cultural competencies explicitly facilitated within the planned learning experience.

Part III: Assessment: Describe how you will measure the degree to which the learners have acquired your targeted outcomes. You do not need to develop the assessments, just describe what they would be in some detail.

Part IV. Context Description: Describe the nature of the overall instructional context established by addressing (a) creativity (i.e., learners involved in making or creating something), (b) problem solving (i.e., overall activity focuses on solving a specific or ill-defined problem), or (c) a real/simulated experience (i.e., activity consists of performing tasks that are part of a real-world experience or an experience designed to simulate real-world activity).

Part V: Instructional Plan Summary: Summarize the planned instructional experiences, providing a justification for the need to employ a culturally relevant framework to help facilitate both creativity and innovation skills and the content-area skills the instructional experience addresses.

Part VI. Evidence of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in the Instructional Plan: Describe the planned learning experiences in detail. Ensure the plan includes at least four of the following nine strategy options:

1. Maximizing academic success through relevant instructional experiences

2. Addressing cultural competence through reinforcing students' cultural integrity

3. Involving students in the construction of knowledge

4. Building on students' interests and linguistic resources

5. Tapping home and community resources

6. Understanding students' cultural knowledge

7. Using interactive and constructivist teaching strategies

8. Examining the curriculum from multiple perspectives

9. Promoting critical consciousness through opportunities to challenge predominant elements of the students' social norms

Part VII. Creativity/Innovation Strategies in the Instructional Plan: Ensure the planned instructional experience provides four or more of the following ten strategies for facilitating creativity and innovative thinking:

1. Encouraging students to believe in their culture-influenced creative potential

2. Nurturing the confidence to try

3. Helping learners find their creative strengths

4. Promoting experiment and inquiry and a willingness to make mistakes

5. Encouraging generative thought, free from immediate criticism

6. Encouraging the expression of personal ideas and feelings

7. Conveying an understanding of phases in creative work and the need for time

8. Developing an awareness of the roles of intuition and aesthetic processes

9. Encouraging students to play with ideas and conjecture about possibilities

10. Facilitating critical evaluation of ideas

Part VIII: Timeline: Explain when the following steps will occur: (a) development of instructional materials (including both formative and summative assessments), (b) Implementation of the instructional experience, and (c) evaluation and reporting of results.

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