Module 2: Your Role
Do These Things
Partner Up for Feedback
You will submit a draft of your Action Plan to your partner(s) by the end of Module 3 and provide feedback to your partner(s) by the end of Module 4, using our Action Plan Feedback Form as a guide. Enroll in a review group by the end of this module. [NOTE: the original iteration of this course was housed within our institution’s Learning Management System, where we set up self-enrolling groups with associated, private discussion boards for partners to post drafts and feedback. There are many ways to set up review partnerships; this is where you will want to provide detailed instructions for doing so.]
Evaluating Equity in My Teaching
In addition to our regular discussion for each module, we’ve provided two resources to help you begin evaluating yourself as an educator committed to equity in your teaching.
Equity Rubric
Spend some time with the Equity Rubric, thinking about where you’re already strong in your practices, where you’d like to devote some time, and also where you may have room for growth.
Applying Equity Matrix (AEMy)
We’ll be asking you to describe a tentative Action Plan topic in our next live session. Based on your experience with the Equity Rubric, it may be helpful to use the Applying Equity Matrix (AEMy) interactive decision-making tool to identify some specific, evidence-based practices you might choose for your Action Plan.
Discussion
Discussion: Responses, Reflections, and Relationships
In this module, we explored why relationships are so important and how mindset—both students’ and our own—can play a significant role in effective learning. We have provided a link to Hammond’s Mindful Reflection Protocol in the Deeper Dive for this module; it may be useful in completing the discussion prompt.
Think about an emotionally-charged teaching situation you’ve encountered, and answer one or more of the bullet points below. You can choose a situation where there was a successful outcome or a situation where the outcome may not have been what you would have wanted (remember, these discussions are restricted to your faculty learning community; no one else will view them).
- Briefly describe the environment and then what happened.
- Unpack either your or the student’s emotional response (or both). What might culture, biology, or identified triggers have to do with it?
- What was the outcome for both you and the student?
- What, if anything, would you do differently if you encountered the same situation now, and why?