In Alberta, the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre (CLRC) and the Calgary Committee on Race Relations and Cross Cultural Understanding worked with teachers in the Calgary Board of Education to help guide them and support them through a process of learning anti-racism and unlearning racism. Specifically, the CLRC and the Calgary Committee worked with teachers to implement classroom activities that teach students how to recognize racism. The majority of this work can be found in the “Anti-Racism Resource Kit” produced by the CLRC and the Calgary Committee which provides five pages of possible activities that teachers can do with their students that facilitates teaching and learning about how racism exists in the world around them. These activities are meant to supplement the Alberta curriculum and can be used with any grade level and any subject matter for which the teacher is able to adapt the activities. The Anti-Racism Resource Kit also includes a list of books for K-12 teachers to use in their classroom to complement the curriculum mandated material and to assist teachers in bringing conversations about how to appropriately deal with racism in the classroom. This list is quite extensive and includes suggestions for how to make grade relevant curriculum links. In addition to this list of books, the Kit also offers a list of useful websites from which teachers can gather more useful materials for teaching students about how to recognize and deal with racism. As with the list of books, this list of website resources also comes with suggestions for grade relevant curriculum links, decreasing the amount of work that teachers have to put into lesson planning and overall preparation. While the Anti-Racism Kit provides solutions for making curriculum content more inclusive, there are other resources that recommend a broader understanding of what curriculum is and, thus, developing broader ideas for creating inclusive schools.
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 05:27:41 +0000
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