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🌸They/Them🌸 🌸Community College Student 2022🌸 🌸Journaling, Writing, Drawing, Reading, Drinking Boba Tea🌸 ✨Black Lives Matter✨

[retrogamingblog2]

Nintendo DS Pokemon Terrariums made by Winnie Sumida

[sourdoughbf]

a soft animal mood board for you if your worried about anything right now 💕

[iloveskies]

pretty sunsets this week // 20/06 - 26/06

(1/∞)

[fangirlpowers-activate]

2020 sucks but at least we’ve got bubbline 😞👊

[vyctornikiforov]

the poor boy…

[one-time-i-dreamt]

In five hours, Brandon Bernard will be executed. He has worked his whole adult life to atone for what he did and rehabilitate others and help stop young people from straying for the right path. Please, if you’re from America, consider calling!

[bisexual-bifurcations]

Most of my women students have terrible impostor syndrome despite doing fantastic in this course and besides emailing them all separately like "you're amazing. You know your shit and you worked hard. And you should be proud," is there anything I can do?

[pythagorean-space-telescope]

In my experience, it can help to give process oriented feedback versus product oriented feedback and especially over characteristic feedback. Like maybe for a paper,

Characteristic feedback: "You're such a good writer!" Not good, focuses on a personal characteristic and makes a value judgement (good vs bad). Super easy for Impostors(TM) to dismiss this kind with all sorts of internal excuses.

Product oriented: "Your paper [the product] is so well done!" Better. Harder to dismiss, but also easy for Imposters(TM) to excuse as a fluke.

Process oriented: "I really appreciate the effort you put into this paper. You used (x y z) resources to do some great synthesizing and connection making." Best. Focuses on the work done and the competencies displayed. Really needs to be specific, which can be hard to give out when you have like, lots of students and lots of grading, but when specific and focused on the actual tasks the student had to do to accomplish the thing, it's harder to dismiss. If I did use x y z resource and connect them and you praise me for it, it's kinda hard for me to rationalize it away and makes it easier to take that praise to heart.

But also it can be hard to reframe things as process vs product because it can get muddy depending on the nature of the work.

Sorry this got long o.O and this is based on my perspective as a female presenting person in physics and an educator.

I really appreciate that you're working so hard to support your students 💞💞

[invisibleacademia]

I teach math, and this phenomena has been documented (at least in stem) since the 70s. (Look up Fennema and Sherman-their big names who studied gender differences.) Sadly, its not just women. Students in all sorts of underrepresented groups are similar. (Rochelle Gutierrez has studied this group extensively if you want details.) What you really want is equity research. There's a ton out there and our knowledge is growing every day. Here is a bit of what I've learned from my experience and studies:

What Pythag said. Feedback is important. But! If you don't intend to grade on process that can cause a lot of harm. Your feedback should match your assessment expectations.

Get diverse voices. Studies show white males are more likely to be the ones who answer when asked a question in class. Pay attention to who you call on and make it a diverse group.

Gutierrez talks about power differentials in the classroom. In short, make your students authority figures in the class. E.g. if someone comes up with a strategy to solve a problem, call it their strategy while you are learning to use it. If it's a big name idea, give it that name *after* they've learned to use it.

Gutierrez also talks about access. Give students problems with a low floor. Problems everyone can participate in at the start from everyday knowledge. Part of the battle is getting people talking.

For women specifically, sadly I don't know of anything that will help directly. This is a societal problem. The research says that women internalize career paths they should/shouldn't take by 8th grade (at least in the US). Breaking this narrative would take a societal shift in who are in positions of power, a feedback narrative shift (women get feedback focused on their kindness, men get it on their knowledge), access to services that allow women more access to "elite" jobs, destigmatizatiin of periods, etc.

But most importantly, my experience has taught me this: my students are people first and students second. They have a lot bigger world than I see as their teacher. From day 1 I emphasize that I know this and I expect them to communicate what they need -big things or small things. I can't fix it if I don't know about it. When I started going in with this attitude and expectations I suddenly had students reaching out more readily. I was able to have more 1 on 1 meetings with students where I could tell them they were doing great (prompted by them)!

Giving solid encouragement never hurts. One of my cohort won a teaching award. I asked what she did and she said. "I am their constant, ruthless cheerleader."

Hope that helps! My ask is always open if you have questions or want to know about more resources. 😁

[prettyscar]

¡Feliz Día de Muertos! 

[mayleeillustration]

A rainy day

[valdotpng]

a bit late to the party but hey,, netflix aggretsuko?? a cute n great show that yall should totally watch if you havent already

[cilly-murphy]

“This is wrong. I was a bride, my dreams were taken from me. And now.. Now I’ve stolen them from someone else. I love you, Victor. But you’re not mine.”

CORPSE BRIDE 2005 | dir. Tim Burton

[angel-reyes]

#CALL HIM OUT

[rosekasa]

god im still thinking about chat noir's reaction when ladybug told him she couldn't trust him anymore

[i-dont-own-a-skateboard]

Gamers during April quarantine: haha lovin this adorable game about living in an isolated haven with a handful of people I love and making a comfy little home :)

Gamers during September quarantine: fucking love this game about being trapped in a confined location and viciously murdering my friends while they complete meaningless, repetitive, arbitrary tasks to fill the time as a terrible feeling of dread slowly rises throughout space

[amuriita]

Prince Kyo and evil stepsister Tohru 🍙❤️🐱 Now we’re officially back to hating Mondays now that season 2 of Fruits Basket has ended 😭💔I miss them so much already 2021 plsss hurryyy 💞

[annavonsyfert]

no nerds

[autumnfallyear]