Ithaca College

Wednesday, March 23, 2016, select one session 10:00-11:15 or 2:00-3:15

Presenters: Sherry Deckman, Assistant Professor, Department of Middle and High School Education, Lehman College and Judith Ross-Bernstein, Assistant Director, Center for Faculty Excellence      

Please join faculty at the CFE as we investigate the potential of using classroom tableaux vivant, living pictures. Tableau asks students to envision the action and events they read about in a text. In this workshop, as an example, we will interrogate teaching the concept of white privilege with your students using tableaux. While this is just one example, teachers can apply this strategy to nearly every discipline. In the process of creating tableaux students are involved in developing their senses, building and activating background knowledge, asking questions, determining what is important, making inferences, and synthesizing the material they have read. As an active and dramatic teaching activity, tableaux support student development and promotes inclusive classrooms.

Faculty in this workshop will: interrogate the concept of white privilege as it impacts our own work in higher education, consider tableaux as an active inclusive teaching strategy, and describe the potential applications of tableau strategies across disciplines.
*In advance, participants please read White People Need to Acknowledge Benefits of Unearned Privilege by Robert Jensen.  

Register for 10:00-11:15 here.
Register for 2:00-3:15 here.

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Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Laurie Wasik at wasik@ithaca.edu or (607) 274-3734. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.