A'ame Joslin and Larry Ruich, Division of Education, IUPUC
Principal Investigator: A’ame Joslin, clinical assistant professor, Division of Education, IUPUC
Co-Principal Investigator(s): Larry Ruich, clinical assistant professor, Division of Education, IUPUC
Project Title: Using Digitally Recorded Analysis to Implement and Reflect on Explicit Use of DEI Principles in a K-6 Classroom
DEI Focus
Funding Level: $2,400
Abstract: This paper presents a proposal that addresses core stakeholder concerns involved in an elementary teacher preparation program. It offers research-based opportunities for future teachers to act upon reflective practices to redress curriculum, delivery of lessons, and classroom environments with a lens for diversity, equity, and inclusion. The introduction and implementation of SwivlTM technology to record instructional practices in the field, provide explicit instruction on reflective practices to inform teaching, and assess the quality of academic exchange among teacher candidates expands the common intention of meeting lesson outcomes. It is the belief of the proposal that digitally recorded reflections serve not only as a process to examine practice and critique teacher effectiveness, but also evaluate their own equitable practices in a teaching environment. The iterative process of digital analysis provides an opportunity to recognize and respond to even the subtlest biases and inequities within all facets of the classroom environment. Anticipated findings and discussion will examine the impact of applying a DEI framework to reflection, how it informs an ability to redress barriers while tracking candidate effectiveness once they exit the program. This latter point will examine retention rates compared to previous cohorts who did not experience the applied reflective practice within a DEI framework reinforced through the use of digitally recorded analysis. To optimize the value of reflection during a teacher candidate’s experience between coursework and their field experience, it is important to understand this relationship, the scaffold supports, and its outcomes.
