ARC Equity and Culturally Response Online Teaching Institute Spring 2022 Registration

ARC Equity & Culturally Responsive Online Teaching Institute

Some students in our system face big hurdles in their journey to a certificate, AA degree, or transfer. Helping students surmount these hurdles requires a personal commitment to the work, institutional changes and support, and daily implementation of culturally responsive teaching practices. During this Institute, we will:

• take a detailed look at the opportunity gap in online courses, 
• explore statewide and institutional approaches to reducing the opportunity gap,
• explore our own role in enacting solutions,
• create an equity-minded syllabus, and
• develop an action plan for our online courses that integrates equity and culturally responsive teaching strategies.

Learning Outcomes

To successfully complete this course, participants will:

• Analyze their assumptions and beliefs about the diverse students served by California community colleges,
• Interrogate the alignment of their teaching values and teaching practices,
• Apply principles of Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning (CRTL) to their online course,
• Identify and discuss course-level barriers that disproportionately impact minoritized students including unconscious bias, microaggressions, stereotype threat, and privilege and power,
• Create an equity-minded course syllabus leveraging peer feedback that welcomes and supports all students, and
• Write an action plan that describes how they will continue to advance their equity-minded online teaching practices.

Spring 2022 Schedule

The American River College Spring 2022 ARC Equity & Culturally Responsive Online Teaching Institute is scheduled for four online sessions between March 4, 2022 and March 25, 2022.

Requirements for Completion

To receive the certificate of completion, you must complete all of the following:

• Participation in all required discussions
• Completion of all assigned activities and exercises with a score of 85% or higher
• Receive a final grade of 85% or higher

Certificates will be issued for completion of the entire Institute.

Hours Required

This is a 4-week course. Participants will need to devote approximately 8-10 hours per week to reading, online discussions, and assignments.

Recommended Skills

• Proficient computer skills (use of word processor, e-mail, file management)
• Proficient Internet skills (use of browsers, searches, uploading and downloading files)
• Familiarity with discussion boards
• Experience in an online learning environment as either a student or instructor

Technical Requirements

• Access to a PC or Mac with a current operating system
• Current version of a browser
• Internet connection, preferably broadband (DSL speeds)
• Built-in or external webcam
• USB microphone

Incomplete Policy

Participants may request an incomplete in this Institute if they have met the attendance requirements and have finished at least 60% of the work. Incomplete work must be finished within one year, or the entire Institute must be repeated.

Receive Salary Advancement Credit!

One unit of salary advancement credit, for those currently placed in Class I-III of your salary schedule, is available for participation in the American River College Equity & Culturally Responsive Online Teaching Institute pending approval of your dean. You must submit your request for salary advancement credit to the District PRIOR to attending the Institute. See the Class/Step Placement and Advancement for Faculty webpage for more information.

Additional Notes

Priority will be given to ARC employees who are scheduled to teach online at ARC.

Questions about the Equity & Culturally Responsive Online Teaching Institute? Contact Leslie Reeves, reevesl@arc.losrios.edu, (916) 484-8892

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