THE NEW TEACHER UNDERGROUND
Summer 2012 Workshop Series for Newer Teachers
Sundays in July, 5-7 pm
The Cherry Tree (South Brooklyn Pizza)
65 4th Ave., Brooklyn
Atlantic Av – Pacific St (D, N, R, 2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q)
The New Teacher Underground (NTU) is back for a second summer of gatherings for incoming and newer teachers. NTU, a working group of New York Collective of Radical Educators, is a social space for newer and alternatively certified teachers to find support and dissect the realities of education in NYC. Through educating ourselves, we strive to be empowered both in and out of the classroom. Each workshop will center around a short reading and activity on a critical topic in education.
Schedule of Topics
July 1 – Identity in the classroom
Readings:
Excerpts from Everyday Antiracism
Excerpt from To Teach in Comics
July 8 – Antiracist pedagogy
Excerpt: Silenced Dialogue (L. Delpit)
Five Shifts of Consciousness for Multicultural Educators (P. Gorski)
Common blindspots in Antiracism
July 15 – Resisting the deficit model
Lois Weiner – Deficit Thinking
Resisting the Deficit Model (Excerpts compiled by NTU)
July 22 – Culture and community
Cushman – Helping Students Research their Communities
Compton – Lilly. Assumptions About Families
July 29 – Queering the curriculum
Contact: newteacherunderground@gmail.com. Also check us out on Facebook or follow us on Twitter: @ntu_nyc. Hope to see you there!
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