Participants will gain an awareness and deeper understanding of ways to engage, build relationships and communicate with the diverse backgrounds of their students. This course is designed to help ensure that students experience a positive, consistent, safe, unbiased and equitable classroom.

Objectives:
• Describe ways to identify and respond to racism, discrimination and stereotypes in the classroom
• List strategies for supporting cultural responsiveness and anti-biased instruction
• Describe ways to foster and support a safe, positive, and culturally inclusive environment
• Explain ways students’ family, language, ethnicity, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, economic background, and other cultural assets impact behavior and learning
• Describe strategies to support cultural inclusion and responsiveness when assisting in instruction
• Demonstrate respectful behavior when working with diverse students