Student Scholars & Faculty Mentors
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Culturally Relevant Classroom Management: Theory, Research, and Practice
Name: Gatacos,
Advisor: Beth Powers
Department: EMEE
Award: Neimeyer Hodgson
Abstract: Effective culturally relevant classrooms encourage motivation and engagement, strengthened racial and ethnic identities, a sense of belonging, and much more among students which lead to lasting positive effects including but not limited to academic success. The purpose of this research is to explore howif at all, the Metropolitan Urban Education Culturally Responsive Classroom Management Model(MCUE)compares to classroom practices in a diverse urban early childhood classroom. The MCUEis a research-based frameworkforculturally relevant classroom management.Likewise, this study is also based on the findings of Drs. Powers and Tamakloe(under review). The authors used the MCUE model as a conceptual framework for a similar project that focused on teachers'beliefsof both the model and their own teaching practices. While that study focused on the teachers’ beliefs, this study focuses on how this model relates to these ideas in action.In other words, this study will explorehow if at all, teachers in a diverse classroom are implementing culturally relevant classroom management techniques.