Strategies for Culturally Responsive Online Teaching in STEM

This webinar is part of our OLC Innovate 2021 Best-in-Track (Open Learning) summer webinar series!

Culturally Responsive Teaching pedagogy in the online environment is key to maintaining student engagement, acquiring knowledge about the course content, developing critical thinking skills, promoting a sense of belonging and community, and succeeding in their academic and professional careers. For educators, integrating a culturally responsive teaching curriculum in online STEM courses can be a challenging task.

To accomplish a culturally responsive teaching pedagogical method in the online classroom for STEM courses, the authors propose a Culturally Responsive Online Teaching Model (CROTM). The process to develop a CROTM model includes seven features: prejudice reduction; academic success; knowledge building during course delivery; course curriculum revision; social justice; an online classroom community; and the appropriation of technology to facilitate an interactive communication space for students of color.

During this session, the presenters will describe CROTM and its theoretical application to a sample Earth Science lesson to make it culturally relevant.

During this session, attendees will accomplish four primary goals:
1. Examine the history of completion rates for students of color in the STEM field.
2. Develop an understanding of the Culturally Responsive Teaching Online Model.
3. With this foundation set, we will move forward to applying the theoretical
framework of the Culturally Responsive Teaching Online Model to an Earth
Science lesson.
4. Finally, we will discuss teaching strategies for integrating CRT to maximize student learning in the online classroom for STEM courses.

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