How can teachers create a safe and inclusive environment for students to share their experiences and perspectives during discussions of current events?
Here are some ways teachers can create a safe and inclusive environment for students to share their experiences and perspectives during discussions of current events:
- Listen respectfully, without interrupting, and allow everyone the opportunity to speak.1
- Criticize ideas, not individuals or groups, and avoid inflammatory language, including name-calling.1
- Ask questions when you don’t understand, and don’t assume you know others’ thinking or motivations.1
- Establish ground rules with your class to facilitate and encourage open and honest discussion.2
- Use proactive strategies that encourage students to self-correct and learn to regulate their emotions.3
- Get to know your students as unique individuals and build personal relationships with them.3
- Use mini-lessons on topics in the news that can be adapted to teach in one class period or less.4
- Use strategies for addressing current events with your students that help them develop the capacity to examine issues from multiple perspectives and think critically about the world around them.4
- Use current events to engage students in the classroom and make content relevant.5
- Show students that current events do not happen in a vacuum but often are seated in a long history of controversy in our country.5
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