Bias: Stereotype Threat

Essential Question

How do we remain our authentic selves as we move in and out of different communities, cultures and contexts?

Texts

Multimedia

How Stereotype Threat Affects Us and What We Can Do

In this transcript, Claude M. Steele, a prominent social scientist, discusses how individuals may react when they know they could be subject to stereotypes and how their reactions change if the threat of that stereotype is removed.

Facing History and Ourselves

Grade Level

9-12

Subject

History

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

November 3, 2015

Teaching Strategies

Word Work

Prior Knowledge and Personal Association Surveys

These surveys ask students what they know or how they feel about specific words in the text they are reading.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

July 19, 2014

Close and Critical Reading

Window or Mirror?

This task helps students consider if the text is a window or a mirror through practicing literacy skills and using technology.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

RL.6-12.1, RL.6-12.2, RL.6-12.3, RL.6-12.7, RI.6-12.1, RI.6-12.2, RI.6-12.3, RI.6-12.7

April 18, 2016

Community Inquiry

What Would They Say

A discussion strategy that asks students to infer how a particular author or character from a text would respond to questions and scenarios. Students must defend their conclusions using evidence from the text.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

CCSS

RL.6-12.1, RI.6-12.1, SL.6-12.1, SL.6-12.3, SL.6-12.4, SL.6-12.6

July 13, 2014

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Bias: Stereotype Threat

How Stereotype Threat Affects Us and What We Can Do

Prior Knowledge and Personal Association Surveys

Window or Mirror?

What Would They Say

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