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"Schools and texts should help students to know themselves, their beauty, brilliance and genius. What text is in your curriculum to help aid in this beautiful process?"
"Schools and texts should help students to know themselves, their beauty, brilliance and genius. What text is in your curriculum to help aid in this beautiful process?"
- Dr. Gholdy Muhammad
- Dr. Gholdy Muhammad
Reflect:
Reflect:
- What is identity?
- What are social identities and personal identities or worldview?
- How much do you think about your identities?
- How much power and privilege do you experience because of your social identities?
- How do our identities impact our relationships and how does our relationships impact our identities?
- How do we centre student identity in curriculum?
- How do we centre student identity in the learning environment?
- How do we centre student identity when we respond to behaviour?
- How do we actively work to decentre ourselves in the classroom and share our power?
Learn:
Learn:
Definitions
Definitions
What is Identity?
What is Identity?
What is identity?
The collective aspect of the set of characteristics by which a thing or person is definitively recognized or known.
The set of behavioral or personal characteristics by which an individual is recognizable as a member of a group.
Source: Websters II New College Dictionary
What Makes Up Your Worldview?
What Makes Up Your Worldview?
Beliefs:
They are your ideas about what is true
They are about your experience of reality
They can be objective claims about a very subjective reality
Values:
They are positive or negative evaluations of importance that we attach to someone or something based on our experience
They are what we hold as sacred, important, or crucial
Ethics:
They are rules for behaviour connected to values and belief
They define the “right” behaviour in the circumstance
Something to read:
Something to read:
Something to watch:
Something to watch:
Something to Listen to:
Something to Listen to:
Something to engage with:
Something to engage with:
power-privilege-in-canada-graphic-dr-amy-tan-md-1 (1).pdfAct:
Act:
Offer Multiple Opportunties for Students to Learn About Themselves and Others
Offer Multiple Opportunties for Students to Learn About Themselves and Others
Offer an Affinity Space
Offer an Affinity Space
Student Portraits
Student Portraits
How are we continuously gathering information about our students to intentionally plan with their strengths, interests and cultural ways of being in mind?
How are we continuously gathering information about our students to intentionally plan with their strengths, interests and cultural ways of being in mind?
How are we identifying the barriers that might get in the way of student learning?
How are we identifying the barriers that might get in the way of student learning?
How are we recognizing these barriers, dismantling them or working around them, to ensure student acheivement?
How are we recognizing these barriers, dismantling them or working around them, to ensure student acheivement?
Community Circles
Community Circles
Stress Awareness
Stress Awareness
Share Story:
Share Story:
Storytelling is very powerful. Use these prompts or ones that students create to encourage the strategy of storytelling in the classroom to build a sense of self-identity and provide opportunties to learn more about others. Storytelling is a powerful way to connect with others.
Storytelling is very powerful. Use these prompts or ones that students create to encourage the strategy of storytelling in the classroom to build a sense of self-identity and provide opportunties to learn more about others. Storytelling is a powerful way to connect with others.
- Use in small groups
- Use in a while group
- Use in partner storytelling activities
Affirmation Wall:
Affirmation Wall:
Students write what they are grateful for about another person and post it in the envelope on the wall for the intended person.
Students write what they are grateful for about another person and post it in the envelope on the wall for the intended person.
https://sites.google.com/site/mrsmalmquist/classrooms/affirmation-station
Daily Check-ins
Daily Check-ins
It is important to recognize that check-ins can be done in a variety of ways, by a variety of people.
It is important to recognize that check-ins can be done in a variety of ways, by a variety of people.
Consider how some students might engage in more meaningful check-ins in different ways. Providing options throughout the day is an important strategy to measure, monitor and address the social and emotional well-being needs of all students.
Consider how some students might engage in more meaningful check-ins in different ways. Providing options throughout the day is an important strategy to measure, monitor and address the social and emotional well-being needs of all students.
Dr. Gholdy Muhammad's Framework for Lesson Planning
Dr. Gholdy Muhammad's Framework for Lesson Planning
Identity, STEM and Project Based Learning
Identity, STEM and Project Based Learning
- How might we bring identity work into every lesson?
- What opportunties are we providing to learn more about our students?
- What opportunties are we providing for students to learn and understand themselves in different ways, and for them to understand each other better?
- How are we centering student well-being in the classroom?
- How can we create the conditions for healing?
Additional Resources
Additional Resources
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