DEIJ Resources – Questions to ask about our learning today –

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The ‘Questions to ask about our learning today’ poster is a critical resource to support teachers and students. The poster presents a series of guiding questions to support creating a learning environment which enables DEIJ to be realised. This is achieved by questioning the learning and information the students engage with, providing space and empowering students to be critical thinking.

For Students

The presence of this poster visually signals to students that these critical questions are welcome and engaged with, helping to prevent the marginalisation of identities within diverse classrooms. These questions thus support critical thinking and encourage students to bring their knowledge, cultural expertise, and lived experiences into the classroom.

Students are guided to:

• Respect the diversity of the world.
  
• Represent people and places equitably.
  
• Champion the inclusion of different thoughts and experiences.
  
• Provide justice for communities harmed by misrepresentation and minimisation.

For Teachers

Presented as a simple reflective checklist, these questions can be used by teachers while designing lessons to ensure consideration of their students and community when they seek to teach unfamiliar topics.

Taking pride of place in the staff room, these posters can support school initiatives to ensure teaching is inclusive and culturally literate.

The questions reflect strategies employed in anti-racist pedagogies and DEIJ strategies. Teachers and educators are encouraged to proactively engage with these questions in their lessons as part of becoming inclusive teachers who can contribute to the destabilisation of norms and biases which can be reproduced in students’ everyday lives.

These questions can be applied to all learning settings to support the safety and inclusion of all.

Purchase for your classroom today!

Accessibility and inclusion are central to this work – though printing costs must be covered, please click the contact me button below to discuss bulk orders or sub-licensing for school networks:

Custom edits can be performed to include school logos or other additions to the poster.

Order canvas or poster versions of the ‘Questions to ask about our learning today’ poster from my Etsy store:

https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/-13114599

Here are some further articles which may support you in using this poster and building your own anti-racist schemes of work:

An article speaking through an example and outcome – https://dsinclairwriting.com/2022/02/27/how-getting-your-students-to-teach-can-increase-their-success-and-support-decolonising-your-classroom/

My session with Briley Habib at the Geographical Association Annual Conference 2022: using-project-based-learning-to-share-everyday-geographiehttp://using-project-based-learning-to-share-everyday-geographiess

Worked examples and resources for PBL: https://dsinclairwriting.com/2022/04/14/an-example-of-project-based-learning/