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The following are a series of engagements for your personal and professional observation and reflection to think about BEFORE we meet. After interacting with each engagement, please record your own reflections, insights, awareness, questions. We will revisit these reflections during our first class session (which will be scheduled in our syllabus). Complete your reflections for all the engagements below in one document, save on a flash drive, and print out to share with our class when we meet.
1. SCHEMA THEORY
Read Ordeal by Cheques (see Ordeal by Cheques below)
What is the story about the lives involved in these checks? Be sure to read all of the checks, the recipients, check writers, amounts, dates, and signatures. Record what you think the story is of the characters based on the checks.
Missing Word (Cloze) Activity (see Schemata Activity below)
Read the two passages and complete the missing words.
Record the missing word answers (Billmeyer & Barton) in your reflection.
Read about Schema Theory (see Schema Theory below)
What do you think are the implications of schema for your own teaching and learning?
Consider the video Cultural Difference (National Geographic) about how we know and learn our schemas.
2. PBS News Hour Report
Race Matters (July 2, 2018)
Record your personal reflection about racial bias reported. (9 min.)
How would you approach this topic as a teacher with upper elementary and middle schoolers?
Where in the curriculum could you make connections?
Want to address teacher's biases? First, Talk about Race. (NPREd, August 12, 2016))
3. If we knew our History (Zinn History Project)
Peruse articles on page one. Choose an article to read. Make notes for yourself as you read. What is new information? How does this conflict with what you were taught in school/from textbooks? How do you make sense of it now? As teachers, how do we advocate for more accuracy and credibility in the content we teach?
Record your reflections (written) considering the questions above.
Let's Talk: Discussing race, racism and other difficult conversations with students
Follow the guidance in ASSESS YOUR OWN COMFORT LEVEL (pp. 4-5)
Record your own reflections to the prompted questions.
o I would rather not talk about race/racism.
o I am very uncomfortable talking about race/racism.
o I am usually uncomfortable talking about race/racism.
o I am sometimes uncomfortable talking about race/racism.
o I am usually comfortable talking about race/racism.
o I am very comfortable talking about race/racism
Reflecting on your own level of comfort; think about how you will stay engaged when topic of race presents itself?
Read through COMFORT in DISCOMFORT (p. 5)
What tools can you use in facilitating difficult conversations with your students (provided in Let's Talk)?
Read through BE VULNERABLE (pp. 5-6)
What will a discussion about race and racism potentially expose about me?
Use the graphic organizer (Difficult Conversations: A Self-Assessment - found on page 18) to list three vulnerabilities that you worry could limit your effectiveness. Next, identify three strengths that you believe will help you lead open and honest dialogues. Finally, list specific needs that, if met, would improve your ability to facilitate difficult conversations.
Record these as your reflections in processing, assessing, identifying your own vulnerabilities and attitudes about talking about race.
At the end of our semester you will have the opportunity To Develop Your PLAN for how you will facilitate difficult conversations with your students, equipping and reassuring them with strategies to persevere during difficult conversations (using Let’s Talk as a resource).
Choose one:
What is White Privilege (Teaching Tolerance)
You and White Supremacy: A Challenge to Educators
White Fragility with Robin DiAngelo
Immediately after reading article or watching video, respond in a free flow reflective memo uninhibited by your conscious thinking. Record your thinking in audio, written, OR illustrations.
5. Create your I AM (from) Poem & Sense of Place
5. EXTRA CREDIT
Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor will be speaking in Albuquerque at the Kimo Theater, Sept. 8 at 5pm. She has written a children’s book, Just Ask! Be different, Be brave, Be you. It is free, but you have to get a ticket from Bookworks.
Four Corners Storytelling Festival in Farmington at Berg park, October 11-12, 2019
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