Black Out Poem:
Racial Trauma
Reflected
Curriculum Violence
Emotional Destruction
Harm
Educate
Although this poem does not flow properly, these words stood out to me the most. Most importantly, the emotional destruction and harm that curriculum violence has on these students. It is so wrong for teachers to avoid teaching Black, or any other history that highlights the minorities, for fear of perpetuating curriculum violence. Remaining silent or choosing to omit certain elements of history has the same impact. As future teachers, we need to educate the future generation so they do not make these mistakes. We cannot keep letting this history of curriculum violence continue and the racial trauma that is instilled in these children.
Hi Isabella! My poem was similar to yours where it didn’t flow properly. Here it is below:
ReplyDeleteReclaim our schools
Real learning
Critically examine
Curriculum violence
Reflective and reflexive
Antiracist
Resistance
Fear of perpetuating curriculum violence
Remaining silent or choosing to omit certain elements of history has the same impact
Right thing by our students
Learn more and seek feedback from students
Review and revise
Reparations
Repair the harm that failed them.
I chose to go with longer phrases/ sentences because they seemed so important to what we had learned in the module. I agree that emotional destruction and curriculum violence have such a big impact on these students. We need to ensure that we are teaching students all aspects and sides, not just one. As teachers we have a obligation to teach our students the facts and truth, while not leaving anything out. We need to do best by our students.
Hello Olivia,
DeleteThank you for your comment. I enjoyed your poem and like the approach you used of using longer phrases or sentences. It explains what is being talked about a bit more. I definitely agree we need to be showing students that there is more than one side to a story and everyone deserves for their story to be told. My favorite phrase you used was "Remaining silent or choosing to omit certain elements of history has the same impact." because not giving all the facts and sides to a history that happened is curriculum violence. It is so important to be able to show our students all parts of history and not just the ones with a white man in the center of it. It is unfortunate that we've grown up under this type of education, because if someone were to quiz me about history involving any other type of race or culture, I wouldn't pass with flying colors.
Hello Isabella! I enjoyed reading your poem and post! I believe that you did a great job capturing the message of the original text! I like how you highlighted the harmfulness of curriculum violence in your poem. More educators should be aware of what curriculum violence is and the negative effect it has on our students, so that we can break the cycle. I agree that remaining silent and choosing to omit important topics that highlight students of minorities is extremely harmful. I believe that the word "educate" is extremely important in your poem. In my poem, I focused on the education aspect of the original text and I chose to highlight the actions we must take as educators in order to put an end to curriculum violence in our classrooms. Some words that I Included in my poem are, "Identifying these types of harm, critically examine, repair the harm, and do the right thing by our students."
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ReplyDeleteHi Isabella! I loved that you highlighted words in your poem rather than full sentences. I think those words were very influential to the poem and stood out to me as well. Did you see the Null curriculum powerpoint? I was shocked to find out that 11 states had introduced rules and regulations to restrict teaching of certain history in schools. I believe that history is never going to be forgotten or erased and simply not teaching history how it was is a disservice to students. As teachers it is our job to teach all sides of history in order to create a well educated student. I loved that you mentioned staying silent on certain topics has the same impact and would even argue that it could have more of an impact on students. Avoiding topics about certain minorities will only make students feel shameful of themselves and will not do our students justice. As teachers it is our job to advocate for students and we definitely need to make a change on how and what history is being taught.