Cultural Fluency Teaching Portfolio

Cultural fluency is the ability to understand and engage with people from different cultures, and culturally responsive teaching is a student-centered approach that recognizes and develops student’s unique strengths.

This teaching portfolio was prepared as part of the Cultural Fluency Teaching Academy in 2024-2025 at Lake Tahoe Community College.

Here is my lastest teaching philosophy statment, written June 2024.

Goals for CFTA Fellowship

Increase engagement
Improve grading

Outcomes: CHM 100 Grading Changes

From multi-step, opened-ended Canvas quiz questions

review

To step-by-step multiple choice Canvas questions

review

With multi-step, opened-ended questions discussed “think-pair-share” style in class