AVID Culturally

Relevant Teaching
October 5th, 2015

Essential Question
Write the following essential question on a Cornell note template you
downloaded in your eBinders session during workshop week
EQ: How can I empower and celebrate students whose experience and
perspectives differ from my own?
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Click on the weblink in the email from Anne Barnes and scroll to the bottom of the
webpage
Click Download File for the Cornell Note version you want
When the document opens up, touch the screen so the Open in function
appears (DO NOT CLICK Open in iBooks)
Select Open in Notability
Touch Create new note
Touch import

Debrief Graphic Organizer

Draw three columns on your notes and put the
following headings in each column:
What I Did and

What I Learned

How Can I Use

WICOR

and Observed

This

Strategies I
Used

Emotional Awareness Quickwrite

A time I felt like an outsider/stranger was

Now when I look back on that time, what I most remember

about it is feeling ________ , ________, and _______.

Silent Communication
Find someone in the room who you do not know well and stand facing each other
You will have one minute each to do the following:
Without talking, look at your partner and come up with 5 things that you think
you have in common with the person based on what you see and write them on
your Cornell note
Person 1: Share the 5 things
Person 2: Share the 5 things
What was correct or incorrect? What was difficult about this activity? Was it
comfortable or uneasy without spoken words? What does silence communicate
or mean to you?

FRAME
Your FRAME affects how you see the world and other people
Individual experiences cause each person to view the world in a different light.
These experiences, or our frame, lead us to make assumptions about others and
the world around us.
Sometimes these assumptions lead us to make judgments or stereotypes, or have
feelings of uneasiness and mistrust toward others

Examining your FRAME

Examining your FRAME can help people talk about assumptions, biases, and
fears
Using the frame template, write down around the border what FRAMES your
perspective:
-Ancestral heritage -Religion -Physical Abilities -Age -Values -Education
-Neighborhood we grew up in -Gender/sex -Sexual Orientation -Language
-Family -Profession -Cultural Traditions -Economic Class -Nation/region

Sharing your FRAME

In a group of four or five, share your FRAME

Once everyone in the group has finished, connect your FRAME to other FRAMES
to make a quilt

We now have a quilt of our multiple perspectives

Empowering Students
Black Does Not Equal Fear by Chris Beasley

Empower:
to equip or supply with an ability; enable

What if we told studentsAs your teacher, I want you, my students, to be empowered

Name the following

5 super heroes
5 famous White people
5 famous Black people
5 famous Latino people
5 famous Asian people
5 famous LGBT people
5 famous people with disabilities

Why were some people harder to name than others?

What professions are the people who were named? Is it the same for each
group?

Student Superhero
On the Superhero template, write down tools or skills of a superhero student

Superpowers can be seen or unseen

Share out as a large group

Marking the Text: Dear Teacher letter

What is in your power?

Number the paragraphs

Circle key words (note repeated words, italicized words)
Underline or highlight main claims or ideas
Write in the margins

Questions
How does this relate to my teaching?
Write a personal reflection at the bottom of the page