To achieve educational equity through practice, you need to understand the different levels of a student’s educational background. Students with disabilities require a specialized teacher who can bridge the gap and tailor lessons to their needs. Here are some ways to achieve educational equity through practice:
Diversity
Educators have a wide range of responsibilities, and achieving educational equity is one of them. Equity in the classroom requires teacher awareness, engagement, and a school’s culture and leadership. While advancing educational equity requires change in the system and the classroom, it is possible to promote equity in a classroom, school, or district. At Northeastern University, there are a variety of options available to educators who want to advance their careers.
Inclusion
Inclusion is a philosophy that advocates for change, but what is the practical application of this philosophy? It involves the systematic analysis of local conditions and the design of an appropriate development process that will enable schools to move more towards inclusion. This process includes the participation of all relevant stakeholders, including national education district offices. It must also take into account the cultural context of the school and the community. Here are four key considerations for educational equity:
Assessments
The concept of educational equity is about striving to create an environment in which all students have access to the same opportunities. The purpose of assessment is to monitor student progress and determine whether they are making the desired level of achievement. In some cases, the performance on an assessment determines whether students will pass a class or fail it. To make assessments more equitable, educators must adhere to certain principles. Those principles include equitable learning outcomes, objective measures of assessment quality, and individualized approaches to feedback and remediation.
Leadership
The Leading Change for Educational Equity Community of Practice is designed to engage teams of three school or district leaders to develop and implement a plan to eliminate barriers to equity in education. The program addresses campus-wide conditions and educator beliefs that can make equity impossible. The book offers specific strategies for overcoming these barriers and establishing a culture of feedback in schools. The results are meaningful and lasting change. It can be an invaluable resource for school, district, and state leaders.
Strategies for achieving equity
In a class with a diverse population, educators must work to ensure that all students have equal access to the educational opportunities that they need. This requires a dual approach: a system-wide view and personal reflection. Inequity can be a barrier to learning for some students, and empowering them with the knowledge that they can achieve success is essential to creating an equitable classroom. However, while open dialogue is important to achieving equity, educators must also ensure that they shut down insensitive remarks.
