History is Their Story Too: Incorporating Diverse and Minority Voices in All Classrooms
Too often classrooms and state curricula center around the male Anglo, Judeo-Christian perspective that permeates society. It is often the dominant history and voice whose story and history gets heard and told. We are told winners are the ones who write history. This leaves other cultures and groups whose story is not told feel marginalized and excluded. Without these other groups of people, the path to progress would not have been possible.
This course is designed to strategize methods for incorporating diverse and minority history into all types of classrooms from elementary to secondary, English to art, or even to administration as they address a diverse faculty to create an inclusionary environment. An emphasis on normalizing and incorporating the teaching of other histories into the mainstream curriculum will also be explored.
We will aim to develop strategies and share tools on how to fit curriculum about minorities into an already packed framework. Many of us want to create safe spaces and classrooms where students of all backgrounds feel seen and heard but do not know where to start and perhaps don't know who to include.
This is a course for teachers of any subject or content area.
FORMAT: Synchronous online learning
DATES: Monday, 7/29/24, Tuesday, 7/30/24, Wednesday, 7/31/24
TIME: 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
FACILITATOR: Andrea Mistretta, Whitehall CSD, Social Studies Teacher
GCRTC CONTACT: Erica Boms Egdemir, GCRTC Teacher Leadership Coach for the Humanities
FEE: None. Registration is required.
CTLE HOURS: 7.5
REGISTRATION: https://tinyurl.com/bdbrkkdp