Diversity Responsive Educators: Professionalise yourself!

This reflection tool offers a step-by-step guide for teacher educators to professionalise themselves when it comes to being a diversity responsive educator. It explains what responsiveness to diversity is, gives direction on how you can professionalise yourself in just three steps, makes you reflect on what it means to be an educator, helps you think about your practices according to six clusters, provides a blueprint for making a plan of action and finally offers adjacent material. This resource is available both in its original language, this being Dutch, and was translated by the creator itself into English. The adjacent material in this document, exclusively in Dutch, contains a background research presentation and an online environment with links and inspiration. For a presentation in English, that bears some resemblance, see the other Flemish resource with a similar title: ‘Diversity Responsive Education: the crucial role of teacher educators and their professional development’

The six clusters, (1) creating inclusive learning environments, (2) challenging teachers’ frames of reference, (3) explicit modelling, (4) creating safe environments, (5) challenging one’s own frames of reference, and (6) raising societal responsiveness, also serve as search categories for the ED-TED online resource bank.

Creators: Benjamin Ponet
Affiliation: Ghent University

Access to the resource: link

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