LEARN FROM INCREDIBLE STUDENTS! This session, co-led with student presenters, will support educators in teaching difficult histories of mass violence and/or genocide in ways that are accessible for their students. Participants will explore this new concept and students' understandings of it to consider how their own values, contexts, students, and assumptions shape their own ideas. Then, by analyzing and reflecting on student-generated data, participants will consider the connections and tensions between their conceptions and students’. Finally, they will work together to identify and modify part of a lesson to make it more age-accessible. This session aims to empower teachers in their capacity to facilitate the learning of complex and emotionally-provocative histories more broadly by centering the voices of students in their decisions-making.
In this session, you will:
Reflect, discuss, and identify what age-accessible learning looks like in your classroom.
Compare and contrast your notions of age-accessibility to students’.
Indentify or draft learning opportunities about/through difficult histories that are age-accessible for your students.
