Silver Cluster students learned about themselves and broke down stereotypes to finish out their first social studies unit of the school year.
In Head Teacher Avigail Hirschfield and Assistant Teacher Sage Fuller’s class, students took a deep dive into their own identities and cultures, while also learning more about diverse cultures within the Gaynor community.
To culminate the unit, students learned about the concepts of stereotypes. From there, they worked to break stereotypes.
“Each student selected one stereotype that is commonly associated with one aspect of their identity, and actively broke that stereotype,” Ms. Hirschfield said. “All the while, the students also worked to embrace aspects of their identity that they are proud of!”
To help their students complete this complex project, Ms. Hirschfield and Ms. Fuller gave them two sentence starters to complete.
- I am _____________, but…..
- I am _____________ and….
For each of these sentence starters, they had to select one aspect of their identity and complete the sentence stem.
Ms. Hirschfield said, “The students of 606 absolutely blew the project out of the park, and the results were so beautiful!”