{"id":16938,"date":"2014-11-04T15:15:51","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T22:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=16938"},"modified":"2014-11-04T15:16:23","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T22:16:23","slug":"faculty-workshop-to-address-stereotypes-classroom-dynamics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=16938","title":{"rendered":"Faculty workshop to address stereotypes, classroom dynamics"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jeff Scholes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Kimbra Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Helping faculty confront their own, and their students’ stereotypes, is the goal of a new workshop, \u201cTunnel Vision: Overcoming Our Received Frameworks in the Classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kimbra Smith, associate professor, Anthropology Department, and Jeff Scholes, assistant professor, Philosophy Department, will lead the workshop designed to give faculty members tools to improve classroom dynamics.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom both sides \u2013 the student and the faculty member \u2013 snap judgments can be made that put people into categories,\u201d Smith said recently. \u201cThe point of this workshop is to shine a light on some of the reasons that we all do this in order to facilitate safer, more open dialogues where we can all learn more.\u201d<\/p>\n

As an example, Smith noted that student email to a faculty member might initially appear overly casual or even disrespectful to the faculty member. By creating an interactive workshop where such scenarios are openly discussed, Smith and Scholes hope to present some alternatives to this kind of reaction. By highlighting several categories that are susceptible to stereotyping such as religion, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, or military status, faculty will be invited to consider how these operate in the university environment. \u201cWe picked the title \u2018Tunnel Vision\u2019 to refer to the blinders that keep all of us from seeing things that we\u2019re not socialized to see,\u201d Scholes said. \u201cIf we can recognize that we may not be seeing the whole picture and then struggle to broaden our perspective, then there is the potential to gain something that everyone wants \u2013 a more productive classroom discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n

The workshop is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Nov. 12 in University Center 124 and is open to all UCCS faculty members. To attend, please contact Jeffrey Montez de Oca, assistant professor, Sociology Department, jmontezd@uccs.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cTunnel Vision\u201d is the second workshop this fall as part of a \u201cContentious Discussions in the Classroom\u201d series sponsored by the Faculty Minority Affairs Committee, the Faculty Assembly Women\u2019s Committee, PRIDE, the Office of Diversity and Inclusiveness and the Faculty Resource Center.<\/p>\n

In September, Abby Ferber, professor, Women\u2019s and Ethnic Studies program, and Leilani Feliciano, associate professor, Psychology Department, led \u201cDanger Zones: Triggers in the Classroom.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two workshops are planned for the spring semester. They are \u201cThe Judge is In: Managing Stereotypes of Faculty and Students\u201d and \u201cO Brave New World: Issues in Online Teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Judge is In\u201d will be led by Stephany Spaulding, assistant professor, Women\u2019s and Ethnic Studies program, and Katherine Mack, assistant professor, English Department, in February 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cO Brave New World\u201d will be led by Roger Martinez, assistant professor, History Department, and Rebecca Laroche, professor, English Department, in April 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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