Assignment Task

Overview

Presentation on inclusion, equity, social justice and diversity.

Purpose

There are many stories of diverse experiences that surround us in our everyday life, and as you enter practice you will hear stories from families and children about their experiences.

As an educator, listening to these stories is an active process, as you engage with what families and children are sharing, form relationships with these families and children, and integrate how you have understood these stories into your teaching practice with children.  

This assignment is about making visible our ways of listening to stories and considering how our ways of understanding the stories we are told influence our understandings of inclusion and inclusive practice.

Video 1: Share your story

1. Tell us your story 

2. Create a video telling/ sharing your own story of inclusion. This is the narrative you have constructed from the events of your life (refer to: A mile in my shoe). 

3. You can use a video recording method of your choosing, but the file should be uploaded to Panopto for submission.

• For support using Panopto, see the VU Collaborate Student Help Site: Panopto.
• If you record a video in a different program i.e. PowerPoint, you can Upload a Video to Panopto using these instructions. 
• If you would like to use Panopto to record your video, you can Record a Video in Your We Browser using these instructions. 
• Submit your Panopto Video via the Assessment Dropbox using these instructions. 

Video 2: Listen to a story

1. Listen to a story

2. Look through one of the following websites. Choose a story which includes an audio or visual recording. Carefully listen to your chosen inclusion story of another person.

3. Share your thoughts on the way you listened to the story of diversity, immigration, privilege and other experiences of inclusive practice matter. (3 minute video). Use the below as a guide for what to include.

4. How did you listen to the story? 

• What moments of the story were most impactful for you? Why? Think about how you felt, your emotions, and your relationship with the storyteller. Consider why these moments might have been most impactful for you - do these moments connect to your personal experience? To things you are interested in? To things you are unfamiliar with? 
• What concepts, ideas, or experiences from your own life did you bring to your listening practice? For example, consider how your understanding of privilege, gender, race, or ability might have influenced how you listened to these stories.  
• What did you not hear when listening to the story? What might have been excluded in your listening practice? 

5. How do your practices of listening influence your approach to inclusive practices a teacher? 

• How does your way of listening to the story impact your ability to respond by forming relationships, to create belonging, to understand identity, to acknowledge children with special rights, to make visible children’s practices of engaging with difference, or to advocate for inclusive practices? 
• What words might you use to describe how you listen to stories? How might your approach to responsive listening be unique? How does your approach to responsive listening align with your understanding of inclusive practice? 
• You can use a video recording method of your choosing, but the file should be uploaded to Panopto for submission.
  • For support using Panopto, see the VU Collaborate Student Help Site: Panopto.
  • If you record a video in a different program i.e. PowerPoint, you can Upload a Video to Panopto using these instructions. 
  • If you would like to use Panopto to record your video, you can Record a Video in Your We Browser using these instructions. 
  • Submit your Panopto Video via the Assessment Dropbox using these instructions + a copy of your script/transcript with in-text citations from your video along with a reference list (at least 2 references; APA referencing style).