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Challenging Racism 19 Reviews

4.4 Rating 512 Reviews
What impact has the introduction of the action plan had on your classroom? This had set the scene for the kids and started the conversation of how diverse we all are, even though we thought we were very similar.
How did using this kit change the environment in your classroom? This has changed the culture of the classroom, looking deeper into what our own understanding of ourselves as people are, as well as what our perceptions are of others and ourselves.
Wow, what a great kit, this has been the starting point for many a talk in my class. Which has led to some interesting and diverse topics.
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Posted 5 years ago
What impact has the introduction of the action plan had on your classroom? The action plan was great! It was so good to let the kids led direction that this activity took. They felt really empowered and as a result were really keen to see us achieve our goals.
How did using this kit change the environment in your classroom? The impact of the kit was one of awareness. I believe these children will no longer let “racism” just occur. They will challenge a statement now, or challenge the way something is presented if they do not believe that it is equitable.
This was such a fantastic kit! It was so eye opening for me as a teacher. The stereotype pictionary and the “I wish my teacher knew …” activity were real eye openers. The “I wish my teacher knew …” activity was particularly heartbreaking. My kids are dealing with adult worries and stresses - and I wouldn’t have known. It was also great to look at the casual racism that happens in my own environment and how I respond to it. Thank you so much for making such a “touchy” subject easy to discuss and even easier to make accessible to kids.
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Posted 5 years ago
What impact has the introduction of the action plan had on your classroom? The class are now far more interested in finding out their own ancestors immigration story. Many families have been in Runanga for several generations because of the coal mining industry. We are also going to try to have other cultures represented in our
How did using this kit change the environment in your classroom? More awareness of diversity and difficulties that some immigrants go through. I am an immigrant from Europe and we have a student teacher in the room from America so we could share our stories, as well as talking about refugees and language barriers.
I work in a small West Coast school with a year 5 to 8 class of mostly NZ European and some Maori. When we played the Pictionary game it became very clear that the children didn’t have any concept of ethnic groups or even gender when it came to stereotypes. For a start they drew stick figures so no racism there! In the discussions they were genuinely surprised that I would suggest that any one ethnic group would be associated with something like unhealthy or bad driver. It was interesting that the only concept they had of muslims was as innocent victims of a horrific crime in ChCh. It was heart warming to see that they were still relatively innocent.
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Posted 5 years ago
How did using this kit change the environment in your classroom? I look forward to using many of these discussion topics earlier in the class next year to create an empathetic, supportive environment for the class to learn together in. The environment didn't change markedly as they were already pretty coool - but I th
The kit was thoroughly researched and provided thought provoking resources and discussion opportunities. The journal provided for the educator to unpick their own thinking was especially useful. The timeline to do this personal deep thinking before teaching the unit was shorter than I would have preferred. It was not material you could whip through quickly. I very much enjoyed having my own thinking and norms challenged and believe that this helped me teach the topic more deeply and empathetically
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Posted 5 years ago
How did using this kit change the environment in your classroom? the kids were asking more questions and the discussions were good. our kids are very respectful and love doing tings like this
This was a fantastic resource. the kids were engaged and had good discussions. We had to move tings around as we began to run out of time and had a lot of interruptions this term. highly recommend it.
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Posted 5 years ago
What impact has the introduction of the action plan had on your classroom? We have introduced new ways of celebrating cultures in our school
How did using this kit change the environment in your classroom? We are more aware of stereotypes
There were some very good aspects to this but I found the teachers journal quiet a negative resource that could of been worded and put together in a much better way . I also adapted some of the activities as some of the White New Zealand children in the class felt very ";told off"; as one said for being who they are. There were such important points to make and conversations to have but the context /wording of some could have been looked at.
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Posted 5 years ago
What impact has the introduction of the action plan had on your classroom? I think there is a long way to go in our society still. We had a recent announcement of a new school name that is in te Reo Māori and there were some parents that were quite clearly racist about it. It is hard to teach some families that this isn't actual
How did using this kit change the environment in your classroom? The children liked using the supplied resources.
A great kit to get children thinking. Suitable for a little bit older than what we had. (Y2/3)
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Posted 5 years ago
What impact has the introduction of the action plan had on your classroom? My students chose to focus on giving genuine compliments, ensuring students have reading material in the own languages, finding out why our families came to New Zealand, and ensuring that no racist vocabulary is being used.
How did using this kit change the environment in your classroom? Students really made the most of putting themselves in the shoes of others, challenging stereotypes, and making others feel welcome. We live in a largely pakeha community, so it was nice for our immigrant students to have a chance to have their voices hea
It was really great to be able to challenge the students' perceptions of our community views and values. Thinking about how our thoughts, beliefs, and actions affect others was really needed in our classroom this term, so it was nice to have this conversation facilitated by this kit.
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Posted 5 years ago