Or. Admin. Code § 581-018-0500 - Definitions: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Practices Grant
The following definitions apply to OAR 581-018-0500 to 581-018-0515:
(1) "Achievement gap"
means the research-based gap in opportunity that often exists between students
who are economically disadvantaged, students learning English as a second
language and students who are African American, Hispanic or Native American and
their White peers.
(2) "Culturally
responsive" means the implicit use of the cultural knowledge, prior
experiences, frames of reference, and performance styles of diverse students to
make learning more appropriate and effective for them.
(3) "Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and
Practices Grant " means the Grant established in OAR 581-018-0205 to implement
ORS 342.950(3)(f).
(4) "Culturally Relevant " means pedagogy and
practices that propose the following: students must experience academic
success, students must develop and/or maintain cultural competence, and
students must develop a critical consciousness through which they challenge the
status quo of the current social order.
(5) "Culturally and/or linguistically
diverse" means: students who identify as racial and/or ethnically diverse
(Hispanic, African American, Native American, Alaskan Native, Pacific Islander)
or whose native language is not English.
(6) "Culturally competent" means the ability
to successfully teach students who come from a culture or cultures other than
our own. It entails developing certain personal and interpersonal awareness and
sensitivities, understanding certain bodies of cultural knowledge, and
mastering a set of skills that, taken together, underlie effective
cross-cultural teaching and culturally responsive teaching.
(7) "Systemic Equity" means: the transformed
ways in which systems and individuals habitually operate to ensure that every
learner- in whatever learning environment that learner is found as the greatest
opportunity to learn enhanced by the resources and supports necessary to
achieve competence, excellence, independence, responsibility, and
self-sufficiency for school and for life.
(8) "Opportunity gap" means: the ways in
which race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, English proficiency, community
wealth, familial situations, or other factors contribute to or perpetuate lower
educational aspirations, achievement, and attainment for certain groups of
students.
(9) "Pre-service teacher"
means an individual who is enrolled in a post-secondary teacher preparation
program at the undergraduate or graduate level working to obtain an initial
teaching license.
Notes
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 342.950
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 342.950
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