Social Justice Issues en Español
How to incorporate social justice in the classroom:
There are many other ways that you can be an advocate for social justice in your classroom. Here are more Spanish resources to make that happen!
- Connecting to Student's Lives When making curricular decisions, consider, value and build upon the diverse learning experiences of your students.
- Linking to Real-World Problems and Multiple Perspectives Make what you are teaching relevant to what is going on in the world. The classroom walls aren't magical barriers to the realities outside of them. If there's something happening in the news that you can link to your content, do it. This is an opportunity to teach children high-level thinking skills while supporting students to be critical thinkers: discerning fact from opinion, figuring out your own and others' point of view, and interpreting all of this information to decide on your own "truth."
- Creating Classroom Community Create opportunities for students' voices to be heard, by sharing one's own ideas and responding to the ideas of classmates. The teacher's role is to use questioning that can help students make connections between the big ideas that inform the lesson content.
- Also, teachers can take a critical look at the materials in the classroom. Do the books, stories, and other curricular materials present one specific narrative? If they do, revamp what you have to be sure that your materials include examples from diverse aspects of society, including ethnicity, religion, language, gender, ability, sexual orientation, and socio-economic status in a non-stereotypical manner.
- Include Authentic Assessments Authentic assessments are opportunities for students to write for real audiences, share knowledge with a wide audience, and engage in the kind of work that occurs outside the classroom.
There are many other ways that you can be an advocate for social justice in your classroom. Here are more Spanish resources to make that happen!
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