VThe teacher can organize the class

seating to suit the lesson

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 momponents of successful course design:

 Selection of course content

 Examine content and materials for inaccuracies

or bias

 Awareness of potential issues of controversy

 Plan for conducting the class, including

determining how students will be grouped for
activities and discussion

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 momponents of successful course design:

 Knowledge of the diverse backgrounds of students

 Balance between challenging students and

supporting them

 Instructor's comments, decisions, behaviors in the

classroom

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 mlassroom Strategies:

Vmreate an atmosphere of mutual respect

and care

VModel behaviors of openness, honesty,

willingness to take risks, respect for others

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 mlassroom Strategies:

VAcknowledge fears and concerns about

conflict

VMake questioning the norm, so that critical

inquiry is a routine component of the course,
not just when a controversial subject is
introduced

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 mlassroom Strategies:
 Be prepared for negative reactions to the material or the
activity

 Be an effective facilitator: when discussion becomes

heated, respond to it, so students see that the tension is
being addressed

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 mlassroom Strategies:

 Maintain a supportive atmosphere even

when challenging what is perceived as hate
speech

 Use self-directed humor or personal

experience anecdotes to help students feel
comfortable

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 mlassroom Strategies:
 £iscuss openly stereotyping and making
individuals representatives of their culture

 Empower students to find their own voices and

acknowledge personal accountability for what
they say or do

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 mlassroom Strategies:

 Assure students that expressing their views will

not affect their grades, that what they write or
say will remain confidential

 Invite students to write comments anonymously

to give their reactions at the conclusion of a
discussion and use these to address problems,
discomfort, etc.

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 mlassroom Strategies:
 £iscuss how dialogue does not require
one participant to be right and the other
wrong

 Use a variety of assignments, classroom

techniques, serious and light-hearted
topics, collaboration

 Encourage and incorporate multiple

perspectives and materials to avoid
dualistic oversimplification

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 mlassroom Strategies:
 £evelop common goals/purpose to guide
process and content

 Incorporate opportunities for students to

reflect on their views, behaviors, attitudes in
the light of their own experience.

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 mlassroom Environment
 Includes a variety of print

 Provides opportunities for students to share

their own reading and writing

 Provides a student-centered classroom

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 mlassroom Environment
 Provides access to books within the
classroom with a variety of levels and genre

 Enables students to make choices about

what they read and write

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 mlassroom Environment
 Encourages parents to read to their children,
discuss literature with them, and support and
encourage their children's reading and writing
progress

 mommunicates frequently with parents

regarding the intended outcomes of an
integrated language arts program

 Provides sufficient time daily for students to

read and write
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 mlassroom Environment
VIntegrates other curricular areas with the
language arts

VUses a variety of instructional grouping

strategies (e.g., whole class, flexible small
groups, partners, cooperative learning
groups)

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 THATǯS ALL

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