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A Youth Film examing the historical fight for Civil Rights and the contemporary pyschological significance of ending discrimination and prejudice. Public Screening:
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| Ms. Haebig's Web Pages |
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AP Psychology email: chaebig@kusd.edu Click here to view more about what to expect in AP. Caroline Haebig - Social Studies EducatorApple Distinguished Educator 2007 As an educator I strive to work with my students to create a distinctive learning organization. As a learning organization, my students and I have created a system that promotes self-advocacy and consciousness concerning the relationship between metacognition and course content. I believe that when students are given adequate tools, guided with high standards for academic performance, and differentiated classroom activities they rise to meet high expectations. As a social studies educator, I aim to prepare students to succeed academically as well as to grow as responsible citizens, and independent thinkers for life long learning. I also enjoy coaching Cross Country, Track, and working on Digital Media Documentary projects with my students. Upcoming Project Confronting Bias: Examining the Psychological Impact of Prejudice, Discrimination, and Bias Everyday we are bombarded by images, messages, and people who shape our thinking, behaviors and experiences. As a population we represent the various dimensions of diversity. Due to the diversity of our biology and the social environment in which we live, we as a whole population must acknowledge that the experiences we own as individuals are unique. If we do not take the time to acknowledge and reflect on how the experiences of others may vary from our own, we will never truly appreciate the sameness and differences of others. We must begin to understand how we as individuals shape the experiences of others around us. In order to embrace diversity, we must confront the bias that exists within our environment and our own thinking. Through a process of academic research, interviews, and personal reflection, high school psychology students are examining the psychological impact of prejudice, bias and discrimination. After completing academic research and interviewing practicing psychologists whose work prominently pertains to the experiences people commonly have with prejudice and discrimination, students will examine how individuals cope with these negative messages. In addition to the critical analysis of psychological research, students will create research papers exploring a specific psychological phenomena relating to the experience of prejudice, bias, or discrimination. Students will then use their research to create digital media projects. The focus of this project is to combine the activities of academic research, writing, collaboration, and digital media technology in order to create a product that can be used to create a broader awareness about the psychological impact of bias, prejudice, and discrimination. Research Collaboration: During the beginning of this school year, Haebig’s Psychology students and UWM students of Dr. Pasternak, Assistant Professor, Secondary English Education, at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee collaborated on a cyber conferencing initiative. High school students are currently studying, researching and addressing the impact of bias, prejudice and discrimination resulting in I-Search papers that will be the basis for other digital content projects using iLife software. Besides acting as Haebig’s psychology students’ writing center tutors, through cyber space, high school studentsand UWM students took a collaborative approach to rhetorically analyze the Internet for bias, prejudice and discrimination – learning more about how rhetoric works to support or impede hate. In creating evaluative criteria, students visited biased web sites in addition to scholarly web sites – creating an opportunity to host difficult dialogues across educational levels and through a mentoring partnership. Further, examples of this project will be posted on the Apple Learning Interchange. Student reflections and a digital video evaluating the process of this cyber conferencing and tutoring collaboration will also be available. In addition, students are currently creating digital content projects based on the research of this collaboration, and aim to organize a community event premiering their work.
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| Introducing
the "Write Aloud" University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee
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Film Samples & Additional Links:
Apple Distinguished Educator Institute 2007 Reflection Educator's Perspective on the Memoirs Project
Click here to view more on Memoirs Project
Memoirs Community Event & Film Premier Click here to view more on Civil Rights Project (Movies are in
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