6. Final Reflection

We hope that this module has helped you familiarize yourself with some key concepts and think about the complex and multilayered ways in which your identities influence your interactions with others.

As a final reflection for this module, consider the following questions to reflect on how your personal and social identities might affect who you are as an educator and your teaching practice. This might include intentional and/or unintentional attitudes, practices, decisions, etc.

How do stereotypes or (implicit) biases in your communities (e.g., your discipline, university, local community, broader society) shape classroom dynamics?

Are certain student identities and voices more normalized or valued than others in your classroom?

How do your personal and social identities shape your teaching practice? How might that consciously or unconsciously privilege or marginalize students with certain identities? You may focus on a particular aspect of your identity, such as race, socio-economic class, physical dis/ability, etc. and consider different aspects of teaching, such as:

• • • • • your syllabus
        • student engagement
        • forms of assessment
        • classroom arrangement
        • course policies
        • images or examples used when lecturing or explaining concepts
        • course resources

What strategies can you try implementing to make your teaching practice more inclusive and equitable?

Congratulations! You have completed the asynchronous component of the workshop, Identity Matters: Connecting Power, Privilege and Bias to Anti-Racism Work. We look forward to seeing you in the synchronous session and discussing your questions and thoughts which emerged from your engagement with this module. In the workshop, we will also apply the concepts of power, privilege, and identity to issues of racism and anti-racism in teaching and learning settings.

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