Social Justice Standards: Unpacking Identity | Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice
Essential Questions: What is identity?How is identity developed?How does identity affect our relationships? Objective: Learners will: Define what shapes our identities;Understand the five identity anchor standards in the Teaching Tolerance Social Justice Standards; andRelate how identity has many characteristics and affects relationships within the school building and classroom. This is the first in a series of self-paced presentations for individuals, easily modified for a group. You need: ability to access audio and video on your device;pen and paper;and about one hour. Learn 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. Go Deeper Think about how a person’s different identity categories might create sameness as well as uniqueness. Apply Think about the list of characteristics again. Reflect Go Deeper
How We Got Here
Updated:The FCC Tuesday voted 3:2 to approve an order that will enshrine the policies of network neutrality — the idea that ISPs can’t hinder or discriminate against lawful content flowing through their pipes — as regulations enforced by the commission. While legal challenges remain, and the text of the full order won’t be out for a few days, here’s the gist of what’s in store, as I explained last night: The order contains three sections that set policies around transparency, create a prohibition against blocking lawful content on wireline networks and certain types of content on wireless networks, and set up rules preventing unreasonable discrimination. More analysis will come later. Update: Here’s the release discussing the order, and the full order itself will come in a few days. As for how we got here, this is a brief recap of the events and decisions leading up to today’s vote: 2006: Congress attempts to pass the first of many network neutrality bills.
Más allá de la rúbrica - Practica Reflexiva
¿Un instrumento más para seguir haciendo lo mismo o una oportunidad para integrar la evaluación en el proceso de aprendizaje? Las rúbricas de un solo punto como alternativa. Más allá de la rúbrica Ahora que la mayoría del profesorado está familiarizado con las rúbricas como instrumento de evaluación, quisiera aportar algunas reflexiones personales acerca de lo que se puede hacer con ellas y presentar las rúbricas de un solo punto como alternativa de evaluación. Un instrumento más para seguir haciendo lo mismo Para una buena parte del profesorado, la primera impresión cuando toma contacto con las rúbricas suele ser de rechazo ante un instrumento nuevo y complejo. No debe sorprendernos que el uso de la rúbrica sea anecdótico cuando solo se percibe como un instrumento añadido a lo que ya se hacía: una evaluación mayoritariamente a través de pruebas escritas frecuentes con las que se hace la media para tener una calificación final. Una alternativa a la rúbrica: la rúbrica de un solo punto
Classroom Games and Tech
Refuse to Stand Silently By | Teaching Tolerance - Diversity, Equity and Justice
Objectives: At the end of the lesson, students will be able to: • identify 10 crucial global issues. • list some simple social justice actions they can take. Essential Questions: • What are some crucial global social issues facing us today? • Why are many people slow to take action for social justice? Enduring Understandings • Many crucial global issues exist today, including poverty, hunger, and human rights. • Although we live in an information-rich society, many people are slow to act for social justice. Vocabulary capacity [kuh-pah-sih-tee] (noun) the ability to perform or withstand something corrosive [kuh-roh-siv] (adjective) having the quality to destroy something social justice [soh-shuhl juhs-tis](noun) a fair society with equal human rights tumultuous [tuh-muhl-choo-uhs] (adjective) marked by loud, emotional disturbance Suggested Procedure 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Alignment to Common Core State Standards/ College and Career Readiness Anchor Standards CCSS R.4, SL.1,L.1, L.5 Extension Activity:
Fair Isn’t Equal: Seven Classroom Tips
In last month's post, I mentioned that there are two skills that separate great teachers from good ones. I explained that the first skill is the ability to reframe student behavior, to see it in new ways. Today I want to discuss the second skill: knowing how to treat students fairly by not treating them the same. Allen Mendler and I introduced the idea that fair isn't equal to the education community in 1988 in the first edition of Discipline With Dignity (an updated, more comprehensive explanation with examples is provided in the current edition). Since then, nearly all of the educators who have used our model have seen remarkable results when resolving a wide range of behavior issues. If you ask students what are the most important qualities they like in teachers, one of the universally top-mentioned is fairness. But what is fair? The most glaring example of the misunderstanding between fair and equal is in progressive consequence organization. 1. 2. 3. As opposed to: 4. 5. 6. 7.
6 Reasons to Try a Single-Point Rubric
As educators, we know the power of a good rubric. Well-crafted rubrics facilitate clear and meaningful communication with our students and help keep us accountable and consistent in our grading. They’re important and meaningful classroom tools. Usually when we talk about rubrics, we’re referring to either a holistic or an analytic rubric, even if we aren’t entirely familiar with those terms. An analytic rubric would break each of those general levels down even further to include multiple categories, each with its own scale of success—so, to continue the example above, the analytic rubric might have four grades levels, with corresponding descriptions, for each of the following criteria points: thesis, argument, length, and grammar and formatting. Both styles have their advantages and have served many classrooms well. The single-point rubric offers a different approach to systematic grading in the classroom. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Teaching Like an Artist
