Microaggression and Microaggressive Behavior and Impact
It's often conscious explicit racial derogations characterized primarily by a violent verbal or nonverbal attack meant to hurt the intended victim through name-calling, avoidant behavior, or purposeful discriminatory actions.”
What is microassault?
Having this skill helps build trust and establish rapport.
What are active listening skills?
These are the three things to consider when creating inclusive teaching strategies.
What are content, instructional practices, and instructor-student interactions?
When doing this step, the goal is to have a productive conversation and not to get defensive or engage in an argument.
What is examine your assumptions?
Statements such as “Everyone can succeed in this society if they work hard enough” are a type of this microaggression.
What is microinsult? (Also myth of meritocracy)
The book, “Managing Diversity Flashpoints in Higher Education”, was written by these two professors.
Who are Joseph E. Garcia and Karen J. Hoelscher?
When a student makes an office visit, use the time to ask about their experiences and this.
What are their interests outside the class?
These are small gestures that make people feel appreciated and valued for their contribution to the workplace and in the classroom.
What are microaffirmations?
The interpersonal cost of microaggressions is these four things.
What is biological/physical, cognitive, behavioral, and emotional?
The 4 Rs for managing diversity flashpoints are recognize the incident, reflect on the incident, and these two.
What are respond to the incident and reassess the action?
In using this particular instructional practice you can take a queue, wait until several hands are raised to call on someone, or use think-pair-share.
What is structure the discussions to include a range of voices?
Using this technique allows all parties to move forward. It can happen publicly or privately, but its key feature is that it’s done with love.
What is “calling-in” or “call-in”?
Microaggressions are verbal, nonverbal, and this type of insult?
What is environmental?
When responding to the incident, you should select an effective response and this.
What is generate a list of alternative responses?
Always do this to the content of your examples, analogies, and humor.
What is analyze?
This is the first step when engaging in a difficult conversation.
What is “state the problem/concern to the offender”?
This American psychiatrist and professor of education and psychiatry at Harvard Medical School is credited for developing the term “microaggression”.
Who is Dr. Chester Pierce?
Clarifying what happened, Considering the incident from multiple perspectives, and Actively listening for understanding are part of this step to managing diversity flashpoints.
What is reflecting on the incident?
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What is the Center for Teaching and Learning?
When cutting someone some slack, you should always do this to an assumption.
What is “test” the assumption?