This TED Talk (12 minutes) by artist and education consultant Melissa Crum draws on her own experiences to describe the challenges many teachers face in relating to students who do not share their cultural context. Crum describes the way she uses art in her current work to help teachers learn to look past their own biases and better understand the lived experiences of their students.
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A tale of two teachers
Video
12 minutes
By: Melissa Crum, TEDx
Educator-prep | K-12 educators
Making connections:
Principled Innovation asks us to work with others and recognize the limits of our own knowledge so that we can better understand and tackle the complex issues our communities face.
What?/so what?/now what?
Tool
40 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
K-5 Card Deck Activity: Courage
Tool
10 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
Overcoming the empathy gap: overcoming a societal lack of empathy
Video
14 minutes
By: Fareeha Quayyum, TEDx
K-5 Card Deck Activity: Critical thinking
Tool
30 minutes
By: Principled Innovation® (PI)
Critical reflection: a road to empathy and growing relationships
Video
3 minutes
By: Nirmal Nanayakkara, TEDx