View the following video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7VbzzfMAuc.
First describe your initial reactions to it as a student. Then envision ways as a teacher you might use this video in your future classrooms to create powerful lessons.
Friday, April 11, 2008
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My first reaction was that it made me sad because some students at the school I work at constantly call our special needs students retarded or move away from them like they have a disease. This upsets me because I have a special needs child and I try to educate the children about the more politically correct terms they could and should use. I also tell them that they should not make fun of children who have no say in how God may them and that they are special children, not just special needs!
This would definitely be a good focus activity for a lesson on discrimination of all kinds: sexual, racial, handicap, etc.
I think that teaching tolerance/empathy/non-bullying/non-discrimination lessons are almost more important than any other. These are the issues we face throughout our lives from early childhood on into adulthood. I look forward to teaching this type of lesson to my students. As a few of you know, my son was born with a Rapidly Involuting Congenital Hemangioma covering the right side of his face so these issues hit home for me. Between my husband, my daughter and my son we spend most of our “Mike Brady” talks on loving beyond what a person looks like and tolerance in general. I think it is important to begin these lessons in very early education classes and reiterate the lessons when they get into high school. I could not remeber my Google ID so I had to do it anonymously but this is Jen Battistoni.
I think that teaching tolerance/empathy/non-bullying/non-discrimination lessons are almost more important than any other. These are the issues we face throughout our lives from early childhood on into adulthood. I look forward to teaching this type of lesson to my students. As a few of you know, my son was born with a Rapidly Involuting Congenital Hemangioma covering the right side of his face so these issues hit home for me. Between my husband, my daughter and my son we spend most of our “Mike Brady” talks on loving beyond what a person looks like and tolerance in general. I think it is important to begin these lessons in very early education classes and reiterate the lessons when they get into high school. I fixed it, sorry.
I forgot to add that www.tolerance.org is an awesome website for issues of this nature. There are some really great lesson plan ideas.
Wouldn't it be an eye opening experience to walk around for one day with blinders on. That way non of our preconceptions could get in the way.
Perhaps I could create some sort of listening activity, whereby students would be forced to create their opinions based only on auditory clues.
Also, this is video demands some sort of role playing activity. Put someone on the hotseat with imagined disabilities and imagine how their day would be different. Maybe I could even convidence students to not use thier primary hand or limp for a day and discuss how much that affected their quality of living.
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