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Welcome to an online weekend seminar. If you were unable to attend our June 2005 weekend seminar, Teaching in a Racially Diverse Classroom, or if you were there and want to review what you heard and learned, this is the spot for you. Many faculty members avoid teachable moments that involve race and ethnicity, because they are unsure of what to do when the learning environment is uncomfortable. Dr. Tuitt guides educators toward a better understanding of how new approaches to classroom learning can meet the needs of the changing student population.Learn about methods to address situations that can emerge in racially diverse classrooms or when teaching race-related content or subjects. Included in this tutorial are five Tegrity segments from the weekend Seminar. The introductory segment is located on the Contents page and four of the segments are located on the Points to Ponder page. These segments contain audio, visual, PowerPoint, and text from Dr. Tuitt's presentation. When you open the links, click on "High Speed" to access the audio-visual portions. According to Lee S. Shulman, 8th President of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching:
“We now understand that learning is a dual process in which, initially, the inside beliefs and understandings must come out, and only then can something outside get in. … To prompt learning, you’ve got to begin with the process of going from inside out. The first influence on new learning is not what teachers do pedagogically but the learning that’s already inside the learner.” “Taking Learning Seriously,” Change, 31 (July/August, 1999): 11- 17. "We face an ever-growing population of diverse students. Education, learning, and classroom experiences need to work in concert with this changing and unique student. In 1987 I saw a billboard with children’s faces in Bejing that proclaimed “Tomorrow’s child will be the international child.”
The presenter for our weekend seminar was Franklin A. Tuitt, Ed. D., Assistant Professor, Higher Education, College of Education, University of Denver. Dr. Tuitt was a Cabot Post-doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. He received his Ed. D. from Harvard. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Connecticut College, from which he received his B. A. in sociology in 1987. Dr. Tuitt is also co-editor and contributing editor to the new book: Race in Higher Education: Rethinking Pedagogy in Diverse Classrooms (edited, with Annie Howell). Boston, MA: Harvard Educational Review, 2003. All of the materials contained in this Web site are protected by copyright. Copying, displaying and/or distributing copyrighted works may infringe the owner’s copyright. For more information on copyright law please see the U.S. Copyright Office site at http://www.loc.gov/copyright/, and for the Minnesota State Colleges & Universities System's policy on copyright, please see http://intellectualproperty.mnscu.edu/. For permission to use any materials found herein, please contact the original author or the Center for Teaching and Learning at ctl@so.mnscu.edu. Next: Contents
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