Engaging Preservice Teachers with Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Three Model Lessons for Teacher Educators

In this article, we present three example lessons focused on intentionally developing preservice teacher (PST) knowledge of culturally responsive teaching in each of our literacy courses. We use culturally responsive teaching as a framework to expand PSTs beyond surface level thinking of diversity by modeling specific literacy practices that embrace students' cultural experiences and connect to academic learning. We offer teacher educators tools and resources to combat popular myths of diverse families, access language and literature for teaching social justice, and use facilitative texts to scaffold affirming and accurate language in their own teaching contexts.