CRT Final Flashcards
How Can We Create A Safe Learning Environment?
- Listen w/the intent to learn
- Be deliberate with our speech
Pausing on Judgment
Iceberg metaphor
What we see vs. what’s really there in terms of relationships
How we process information
- Take in information
- Make judgment
- Take action
BASED ON PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES
How we SHOULD process information
- Take in information
- Pause on judgment
- Take action
THINK ABOUT OTHER FACTORS OR PERSPECTIVES (traffic jam example)
Metacognition
“Thinking about thinking” or the ability to evaluate a cognitive task to determine how best to accomplish it, and then to monitor and adjust your own performance on that task
Invisible backpack
We don’t know what types of things other people are going through, people don’t know what you’re going through (weight of past trauma, bad news, stress)
The weight of negative things can be a lot on someone, even when encountering a minor inconvenience
Ethnocentric conversations
conversations that are characterized by ethnocentrism, which is the belief that one’s own culture is superior to others.
Example: They drive on the wrong side of the street.
Why do they do that? That’s so weird!
Students in minority groups =
lower expectations from their teachers
Mirrors, windows, sliding glass doors
A metaphor by Rudine Sims Bishop that describes how books can reflect a reader’s own experiences (mirrors), provide a view into other worlds (windows), and allow readers to immerse themselves in different cultures (sliding glass doors).
MAKE SURE TO INCLUDE THESE IN CLASSROOM- IMPORTANT FOR STUDENTS
Goals of Culturally Responsive Teaching (3 Rs)
3 R’s:
Recognize Student Differences
Respect Student Differences
Reflect Student Differences within your curriculum
Types of Multicultural Education
CATS acronym:
Contributions Approach
Additive Approach
Transformation Approach
Social Action Approach
Dr. James Banks
Dr. Ken Clark’s Doll Test
Children between the ages of three to seven, were asked to identify both the race of the dolls and which color doll they prefer. A majority of the children preferred the white doll and assigned positive characteristics to it.
Connection of Dr. Ken Clark’s Doll Test to Brown vs. Board of Education
The results of the Clarks’ Doll Test became one of the many tools in the NAACP’s legal strategy before the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board. The doll test was a testimony used in Brown v. Board of Ed, ended segregation in schools
“I don’t see color. I see you.”
it inadvertently minimizes the experiences of students of color by essentially saying that their race or ethnicity is irrelevant, doesn’t recognize who they are and their diversity. This statement ignores the realities of systemic racism and the importance of acknowledging someone’s identity as a whole, including their race.
Importance of appropriate word choices
Ensures people are being referred to as the right thing, oftentimes these terms get mixed up or intertwined, makes people feel like they aren’t being respected
