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Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Using Primary Sources

Culturally relevant pedagogy (CRP) as developed by Dr. Gloria Gladson-Billings, offers an invaluable set of strategies to engage and support diverse learners. 

View five instructional videos examine culturally relevant pedagogy using primary sources.

The first video, a webinar from the Minnesota Historical Society, presents an overview of CRP. 

Four other videos, from the Minnesota Historical Society, introduce and explain CRP and each of its three tenets. Click here to visit the overview page on CRP on the Minnesota Historical Society's Teaching Materials web page. 

Join the Culturally Relevant Pedagogy group in the free Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Teaching Network. (You must register for the TPS Teachers Network, and then you must ask to join the CRP group.) 

Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Webinar (27:15)

Join Jehanne Beaton, from the University of Minnesota, as she describes the three components of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. In this video, she models a second grade lesson that involves analyzing primary sources, deepening student understanding of the topic, and relating the sources to the students’ lives.

Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: An Introduction (10:05)

Click here to access supplementary materials for this video including a video guide and primary source analysis tools. 

Tenet 1: Motivate Students to Choose Academic Success (9:11)

Click here to access supplementary materials for this video including a video guide, lesson plan, and the primary source and reading used in the video. Also available are tools for analyzing primary sources and support for introducing absent narratives. 

 

Tenet 2: Tap Students Cultural Competence (9:04)

Click here to access supplementary materials for this video including a video guide, lesson plan, and the primary source set used in the video. Also included are tools for analyzing maps and other videos for further learning about culturally relevant pedagogy. 

Tenet 3: Examine the Status Quo (10:10)

Click here to access supplementary materials for this video including a video guide, lesson plan, and tools for analyzing historic photos. Also available are the lesson slides, primary source set, student segregation timeline, and the student response booklet used in the video. Further links on Segregation Then and Now are included for further reading.

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