Return-Path: <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h34NwhU02232; Fri, 4 Apr 2003 18:58:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 18:58:43 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3E9BF580@webmail.utk.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: jataylor <jataylor@utk.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-aalpd@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-AALPD:112] "isms" and professional development X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: WebMail (Hydra) SMTP v3.61.08 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Status: O Content-Length: 739 Lines: 18 Hello everyone, I wanted to leave us with some questions for discussion and reflection over the weekend, in order to guide us into thinking about how these issues relate to staff development: 1) How can we provide educational experiences for teachers, so that we inspire new teaching strategies in the classroom that take into consideration a more equal representation of the diversity among learners? 2) What can we do to teach teachers about the differences in class/poverty and other isms issues so that historically and culturally-rooted biases aren't perpetuated in the classrooms? 3) How do we, as staff developers, model those ways of teaching and learning in the educational experiences we provide for teachers? Jackie
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