Center for Research on
Education, Diversity, and Excellence Hawai‘i Project (CREDE)
The Center for Research on Education, Diversity,
and Excellence (CREDE) Hawai‘i Project promotes educators’ use of
research-based strategies of effective practice for culturally and
linguistically diverse students. These strategies are derived from Vygotsky’s
theory and over 30-years of research from the national CREDE project, now at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. These
standards were recognized by the national What Works Clearinghouse.
·
Language and Literacy Development: Developing competence in the language(s) of
instruction throughout the day.
·
Contextualization: Connecting new information to what students
already know and teaching in culturally relevant ways.
A Vision of the CREDE Classroom
Teachers
and students are working together, on real products, real problems. Activities
are rich in language, with teachers developing students’ capacity to speak,
read, and write English and the special languages of mathematics, science,
humanities, and art. They teach the curriculum through meaningful activities
that relate to the students’ lives and experiences in their families and
communities. Teachers challenge students to think in complex ways and to apply
their learning to solving meaningful problems. Teachers and students converse;
the basic teaching interaction is conversation, not lecture. A variety of
activities are in progress simultaneously (individual work; teamwork; practice
and rehearsal; mentoring in side-by-side, shoulder-to-shoulder, teacher-student
work). Students have systematic opportunities to work with all other
classmates. They all learn and demonstrate self-control and common values: hard
work, rich learning, helpfulness to others, mutual respect (Tharp, Estrada,
Dalton, & Yamauchi, 2000, p. 8).
Acknowledgment:
The
CREDE model for early childhood education was developed through a partnership
with educators at the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa Children's Center. Many of
the video clips and photos on this website are from Children's Center
classrooms.
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