What?
For ELT today we had a discussion about a culturally sustaining pedagogy.
So what?
- We had to be open to the ideas and experiences of others.
- When we disagreed, we had to make sure that we used arguments to criticize the idea, not the person.
- When offering an opinion or answering a question, we had to support our assertion with arguments and evidence, not generalizations.
- If we were nervous about speaking, we had to remember that our perspective is valid and the group deserves to hear it.
- We had to observe the Chatham House Rule which is:
“When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed.”
We watched a video called Brown Brothers where we had to listen to the speech and see what stereotypes we heard.
Now what?
I will try to implement ideas from our discussion today in my teaching practice.
