How I plan to build my practices around SEP to create an effective Chemistry and Science classroom for my students

Student Learning
Each student entering my classroom is a human full of multitudes, and should be cared for as such. I intend to start all lessons with differentiation built into the framework to allow for nearly endless adjustments to meet the learning needs of the community in the classroom.

Learning Environments
When students see themselves in the classroom and curriculum, they see their future. Within the classroom environment, it is important to show the vibrant diversity in the scientific world. Within the curriculum, there are many clear examples of applied chemistry and science that come from many cultures. This includes leveraging Hmong fermented cabbage as a lesson in pH, Ojibwe star constellations, the history of Iraq and algebra, Indigenous discovery of nixtamalization, and many more.

Assessment
Assessing our students’ learning outcomes requires more than a simple “exam” and multiple choice quizzes. As part of assessing their learning, it is critical for me as an instructor to build the right scaffolding prior to an assessments and leverage assessment techniques that account for the unique learning capabilities of all learners. Assessment also includes assessing of my own capabilities and instruction methods: I have to assess myself through the assessment process as well to ensure I am delivering the learnings that students expect and deserve.

Planning for Instruction
Absent narratives contain more to explore in Chemistry as the previously shared history. With modern technology and resources, it is possible to gain insight into things I may not have known before. By listening to the community and students, I may gain even further insight into applied sciences all around me.

Instructional Strategies
Polylingual learners should be celebrated for their powerful brains and not left behind. As an instructor, I am conversationally bilingual and appreciated growing up in a translanguage school environment.

Professional Responsibilities
My educational background predates modern developmental understanding and I am prone to replicate the experiences I have. It requires consistent work to not fall into the examples of what i experienced and instead lean into what is best for my classroom.