Asset Based Pedagogies and Healing Centered Engagement

What is one of the pillars of academic achievement?

• Cultural Competence

• Afrocentric Praxis

• Asset Based Pedagogies

• The funds of knowledge

What is a form of education intended to equip students and teachers with the requisite cultural capital to work toward the eradication of the structural conditions that marginalize the existence of certain segments of the school population?

(a)  

In 2017, what percentage of colored students made up the classroom population

• 53%

• 22%

• 87%

• 41%

What is an example of a funds of knowledge approach?

• A teacher using questions involving the public bus system in a classroom filled with students who live in the city

• Diversion from Eurocentric ideologies

• Acknowledging the value in the differing identities and cultures of students

• Utilizing the differences in cultures of the students to understand societal issues

What does an Afrocentric praxis focus on?

• interdependence

• collaboration

• collectivity

• individualism

• competition

Most teachers come from the same backgrounds as their students.

• True

• False

What is a way a teacher can have a group of students understand their identities on a more complex level?

• Have them write a reflective essay on their life up to that point

• Recess

• A Book Report of a piece of literature of their choice

• A lecture on different cultures from across the world

What set of principles guide and direct how we view the impact of severe harm on young people’s mental, physical, and emotional health and encourages support and treatment to the whole person, rather than focusing on only treating individual symptoms or specific behaviors?

(a)  

What does Trauma informed care contain?

• Therapy or Counseling

• Suspensions

• People who have been traumatized coming to the realization that they can help themselves out of the current situation

• A week off of school

A short coming of trauma informed care is that trauma is seen only as an individual experience, not a collective one.

• True

• False