Lindsay Bascara
Western Governors University DFM3 Task 1: Critical Commentary Professor Cynthia Chisholm April 2, 2024
DFM3 TASK 1: CRITICAL COMMENTARY: INCORPORATING DIVERSE CULTURES AND COMMUNITIES OF LEARNERS
INTRODUCTION
Western Governors University employs a three-step developmental framework to support you through your preclinical and clinical experiences. This framework also helps to ensure you exit the program confident in your ability to meet the needs of your future students and school system. This assessment falls under step one of the three-step framework. In this task, you will engage in activities that will go toward preclinical hours of your Early Preclinical Experiences requirements.
In this task and others in this program, you will use Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle (Gibbs, 1988) as a framework to respond to observations and experiences. Gibbs’ Reflective Cycle encourages you to think systematically about the phases of an experience or activity, first describing the experience, then addressing how it made you feel, next evaluating and analyzing it, then drawing a conclusion, and finally considering how this experience will apply to your future practice.
For this task you will select three videos that allow you to observe learning environments where efforts are being made to meet cultural, social, and emotional learning needs of students. In each video, you will observe teachers in their classrooms and will then evaluate their efforts to incorporate the diverse cultures and communities of individual learners into the learning environment.
A. Identify three videos from the attached “Task 1 Video List” found in the “Supporting Documents” section.
Note: When selecting three videos to observe, it may be helpful to read the description available on the web page for each video.
Video 1: “Determining the Influence of Media on American Culture and Stereotypes,” 12th grade https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/200782854
Video 1 Description: In this case a teacher leads a Socratic discussion about Disney’s influence on children and American culture and students identify bias in books, media, film
and the real world in order to assert and evaluate their own opinions as necessary to a democracy.
Video 2: “Learning about Cultural Identity,” kindergarten
https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/134389413
Video 2 Description: This case shows a teacher supporting a study of cultural identity and students presenting a Chinese Cinderella puppet show, discussing how Chinese culture compares to their own, and completing a thinking map activity.
Video 3: “Analyzing Diverse Media to Clarify Text,” seventh grade
https://lrps.wgu.edu/provision/200778242
Video 3 Description: In this case the teacher is facilitating group discussions and students are analyzing and evaluating the book “Alice in Wonderland” by comparing it to other media versions, forming their ideas based on their notes and supporting evidence.
B. Reflect on your video observations by doing the following:
1. Discuss specific examples of how the teachers in the observed videos effectively incorporated the needs of individual learners within their learning environments, including at least one example of each of the following from any of the three videos.
• cultural needs
• social needs
• emotional needs
2. Discuss two ways that the teachers could have more effectively incorporated individual learners’ cultural, social, or emotional needs in the learning environments.
3. Discuss two culturally sustaining pedagogy strategies that you could incorporate into your future practice as a teacher.
a. Explain how you can apply the two strategies from B3 in your future classroom.
4. Explain how you could involve your students’ caregivers in the execution of the two strategies from part B3, including one specific example for each strategy from part B3.
5. Explain how you could involve the community in the execution of the two strategies from part B3, including one specific example for each strategy from part B3.
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