--- title: "Cultural Competency: A Hybrid Course for All Educators" description: Culturally competent teaching and learning is an essential part in addressing the unique needs of all students in classrooms today. Check out this course on Cultural Competency at Fitchburg State University. image: https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/hubfs/CPS/cultural_competency-1.jpg --- [![Fitchburg State](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/hubfs/FitchburgStateUniversity/logo.png)](http://www.fitchburgstate.edu/) # [  ![gcebloglogo_temp](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/hs-fs/file-1019590826-png/GCE/gcebloglogo_temp.png?width=144&name=gcebloglogo_temp.png)](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/gce) ## [Cultural Competency: A Hybrid Course for All Educators](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/gce/cultural-competency) Posted by [Dani Langdon](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/gce/author/dani-langdon) on February 26, 2016 at 3:33 PM - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) ![cultural_competency-1.jpg](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/CPS/cultural_competency-1.jpg?width=640&name=cultural_competency-1.jpg "cultural_competency-1.jpg") 1 Graduate Credit / 15 PDP Hybrid Course 5 sessions 4:30 – 6:30 pm, plus 5 hours online Two Sections: Starting March 15, 2016 in Lowell Starting April 13, 2016 in Fitchburg [![Learn more about our 100% online Master of Science in Criminal Justice, Professional Studies Concentration](https://no-cache.hubspot.com/cta/default/376696/afd5e6f3-1222-4e27-a3a7-b921343a9a38.png)](https://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/376696/afd5e6f3-1222-4e27-a3a7-b921343a9a38)   We are very excited to be offering this course again this spring! Culturally competent teaching and learning is an essential part in addressing the unique needs of all students in classrooms today. This course, which is aligned with the [Teacher Evaluation Standards](http://www.doe.mass.edu/edeval/model/PartIII_AppxC.pdf), provides a solid starting point for educators. In our last blog post, we highlighted 5 ways this course could benefit you and your classroom. [You can read about them here](https://blog.fitchburgstate.edu/gce/explore-ways-to-better-serve-all-students). But what does it mean to be a “culturally competent educator”? Edutopia’s Jose Vilson really gets to this in his March 2015 article entitled [*Empowering Educators through Cultural Competence*](http://www.edutopia.org/blog/empowering-educators-through-cultural-competence-jose-vilson). Through listening, building relationships, and asking questions, culturally competent teachers not only demonstrate the skills they wish to impart on our students, but they also teach to the students in the classroom versus the students they assume are there. Our realities, experiences, values, diversities, and assumptions affect our interpretations and understandings of our own learning. 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