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Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity

 

Diversity – Inclusion – Equity 🙌

  • What Does mean?
  • What is Equity important in the Classroom?
  • What does inequity look like?
  • What is the impact of inequity in the classroom?
  • What would like equity look like?
  • What would be the impact of equity in the classroom?

 

What happens when we build an equity mindset? 

Students will win!


Teachers can:

Spot areas of growth in their classroom practice

Teachers reflect on their classroom practices

Learn strategies managing culturally sensitive classrooms with awareness of personal bias and anti-bias curriculum

Understand the implications for equity in their lesson plans

Reflect on strategies that extends equity beyond the classroom

Develop strategies for collaboration with teachers, parents, staff to serve students

Learn strategies for managing the social-emotional needs of students by creating a culture that ensure






Where do I even begin?

  • Systemic Dysfunction race- and class-based stratification
  • Consider Classroom management:

  • fixed vs. growth mindset: “failure is an opportunity to grow”, “failure is the limit of my abilities” “Challenges help me to grow” “I don’t like to be challenged”

  • tracking vs differentiation
  • homogeneous vs heterogenous grouping
  • students’ability is exposed
  • social hierarchy may be a problem
  • focus on community

  • culture management
  • daily routines/checks/activities

 

Considerations for an equitable classroom

  • Content
  • Pedagogy
  • Relationships
  • Outcomes/Expectations
  • Resources: Allocation and distribution
  • Classroom environment
  • Classroom management
  • Daily routines/ Check/ Activities
  • Inclusion practices
  • Stakeholder involvement
  • Student experience engagement, performance
  • SEL, CRT, trauma informed

 

What is the goal?

Compliance – Engagement – Empower

 

Equity Lesson Plan Template

  • -          Lesson introduction and Building Motivation
  • -          Class instructions (whole group mini-lesson, small group, center/stations), Differentiation
  • -          Practice- I do, we do, you do; students’ needs
  • -          Evaluations: do now, checks for understanding, other formatives, summative
  • -          Closing: exit slip, hw, share out, next step

Collaborative Strategies for Effective Group Work in K-12

 

 


                                 Collaborative Strategies for 

Effective Group Work 
in K-12

 

Ø Waterfall activity

 

Why do we need to collaborate?

Ø Relationships

Ø Engagement

 

 

What makes a group successful?

Ø Equal effort

Ø Communication

Ø Cooperation

Ø Team Building

 

What are some reasons a person might struggle in groups?

Ø Not understanding the work

 

What can teachers/Adults do to help be successful with group work?

Ø know who gets along and who does not

Ø ask for a group plan

Ø Assign group roles: Facilitator, recorder, spokesperson, encourager, questioner, checker.

Ø Code of collaboration: group expectations, agreement created by students. What they might look like in practice.

 

 

Two different ideas for creating a code of collaboration

1.    Affinity Mapping: what they think is important when they are working

2.    What does it look, sound, feel like? (Good classmates are, say, do, do not chart)

Respect yourself, respect the work, respect the community chart.

 

Clear Directions

1.    Short sentences with one task per sentence

2.    create a checklist of bulleted list instead of a big block of ideas

3.    highlight or bold verb of task

4.    assign role

5.    assess 

 

Poll: has technology changed the way you collaborate with students?

 

Reflections and self-Assessment

Reflecting on and self-assessing group work: google form to know how they are where they are and how they are feeling about classwork and beyond

Ø a single point rubric list

Ø google form to complete and exit slip

Ø or one success one opportunity and one challenge

Ø charts: three… two… one…; two stars and a wish

Ø Use questions that reflect students taking care of themself.

Ø Emotional Catalogs: Yale center for emotional intelligence

Ø Turn reflections into class discussions

Ø Google collaborations: Bell ringers, exit slips, and more

Ø Question of the Day: these are great way to foster positive relationship skills with students as they talk with each other, agree, disagree, and get to know each other better.

Ø Would you rather?

Ø breakout rooms using google meet. in google you can add links to group slides so students can chat with each other. clay codes or chrome add-on

Ø Digital choice board: www.helloteacherlady.com

 

Presentations easily organize the presentation of student work

Jamboard: are a great way to brainstorm ideas and have students work together.

Giving feedback: use chat. ask them to leave questions or comments.

Brainstorming: students can add their thoughts and questions

Organizing activities slides that students navigate on their own pace. they make a copy, so they have their own,

Journal prompts or Bell work: organize this in advance to share with students

Agendas: Post a weekly agenda for students to navigate