Tackling the Tough Questions - Responding to Feedback from Professional Learning around Dr. Gholdy Muhammad's "Cultivating Genius"
I plan on answering some of the questions you left for us in the feedback form (in no particular order): 1. How do we ensure that we are teaching students how to think, not what to think, when we incorporate criticality in our classes? According to Dr. Muhammad, "Teaching criticality helps students assume responsibility for the ways in which they process information - to avoid being passive consumers of knowledge and information." One of the main goals of Criticality is to offer students multiple opportunities to experience varied voices and perspectives. We show these different perspectives, but we must allow students to make their own decisions. For example, we can encourage students to use different lenses to view the same topic, such as the development of the HeLa cell: We ask students to weigh the value of the discovery to society while also encouraging them to consider the ethics, morality, and meaning for marginalized groups. It is important to show varying perspec...
