Speaker: Julie Kuntz, Curriculum Designer
What do you hope teachers will take away from this course?
Julie Kuntz: Hi, my name is Julie Kuntz and I am one of the curriculum designers for the course, 5324: Designing and Implementing Ethnic Studies. Something I hope teachers will take away from this course is a variety of applicable tools, resources and lesson plan ideas that they can incorporate into their ethnic studies instruction. I also hope that teachers take away the understanding that ethnic studies does not need to be a stand alone course and that it can exist across the content areas. And I hope that teachers, whether they are elementary teachers, math teachers, science teachers, social studies or ethnic studies, exclusive teachers that they have a part to play and an opportunity to incorporate some really fantastic ethnic studies resources into their content areas of study.
What do you love about this course?
Julie Kuntz: Something I love about. This course is how well it pairs with another Teaching Channel course 5362: History and Foundations of Ethnic Studies in K-12 schools. While this course focuses more exclusively on the designing and implementation of ethnic studies courses and curriculum. This course still includes some history and foundational knowledge required to do a lot of that lesson plan, design and building. So even if you are brand new to the ethnic studies conversation, you really get the best of both worlds with this 5324 course because you get some background knowledge and some foundational ideas and skills while also getting to build upon them and start crafting your own ethnic studies curriculum for your own course.
