Module 4: Activities
Looking at Our Own Attitudes

This module contains 5 required activities, and many optional resources to explore as you have the time. You are asked to do several activities that require thoughtful, in-depth writing. Planning your work and acting on your plan early in the module, will lower your stress level and may improve your final product. Several activities require a response posted to the E-Mail List.

Activity 1: Introduction and Objectives

Review the introduction, objectives and evaluation rubric for our class. Be sure to submit the evaluation checklist form when you have completed the module.

Activity 2: Resources Review and Reading Reaction

Review this week's Lecture and readings, The Language of Closet Racism and Eliminating Racism in the Classroom.

(Optional)
Take the Implicit Association Test (IAT) and review the additional materials found on this week's Readings Page.

This week's readings and the IAT are designed to be unsettling. Post your response, or ask a question of your own to the class e-mail list.

• What is your gut reaction to the contention that we may be unaware of our own innate prejudice?

Email Subject Line:
Mod 4: Act 2 Reading Reaction

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Activity 3: Experiences with Injustice

Have you experienced racial, gender, class, or ethnic injustice in a school setting? Describe an intentional or unintentional act by students, teachers, support staff, parents, or administrators that touched you. Post your story to the web publishing form found on the SiteMap.

Read your colleague's stories while considering the following questions, Post your response, or ask a question of your own to the class e-mail list.

• How do you feel about sharing your personal story of injustice or discrimination?
• How does story telling help you make meaning out of your experiences?
• What did you learn from your own experience or from someone else's story that might prompt you to change your teaching philosophy or methods?

Email Subject Line:
Mod 4: Act 3 Experiences with Injustice

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Activity 4: Continue Working on Course Project

Continue working on your course project. If you do a bit each week, the end of the course will be less stressful for you! (No e-mail posting is required.)

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Activity 5: Reflective Journal Questions

Each week Reflective Journal Questions will be listed for your consideration. Reflect on a few of these ideas or ask questions and offer answers of your own.

***Reflective Journals are due by the end of the Module (Monday of each week).

Record your responses in your Reflective Journal. A reflective journal entry could be just a paragraph or much longer. The idea is to think (and write) about your thinking.

Rubric for Reflective Journal Entries. Reflection is about self evaluation. Consider this rubric as you write your journal entries.

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TIP: Option A: Start your reflective journal using theQuick Topic message system or a word processor. If you use QT, be sure to email me an invitation to your message area. Option B: If you are word-processing your journal, use the Journal Drop box on the SiteMap page to send me a copy of your journal.

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