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The Skin They're In

Racially Relevant Instructional Strategies for Teaching African American Students

ByDr. Mack T. Hines III

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QuestionWhy do African American Students continually fail to

experience academic success in school?

• Place to Learn • Space to Achieve

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AnswerLack of Pride

Positive

Racial

Identity

Development

Experiences

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Racially Relevant Instruction• Racially relevant instruction is using the

cultural and sociocultural aspects of Black culture to imbue African American children with the racial identity needed to succeed in the classroom.

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PICTURE THIS

• The Rationale

• “When a teacher presents a picture of learning and you are not in it, you become an afterthought of accountability, and your life and experiences will not find a mirror in the classroom.”

• Dr. Mack T. Hines III

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Four Frames of Reference

Oral & Rhythmic Expression

Multi-Level Togetherness Episodic Vitality

Vervistic Focus

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INSTRUCTIONS

As you work in groups, I would like you to

help each other by working together to

complete the assignment. It is important that

you feel connected with the other people in

your group. You should also try to do everything

that you can to share, help and work well together

for the good of the group.

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Multi-Level Togetherness

• Communalism

Forming

communal groups

to accomplish goals.

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AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE “AM I MY BROTHER’S KEEPER?”

• Concern

• Altogether for

• Relating to

• Everybody

Treating

Relationships with

Understanding

Sensitivity and

Truth

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AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE “AM I MY BROTHER’S KEEPER?”

• SOCIAL ORIENTATION• Strong Emphasis on Relating to People Instead of

Objects

• GROUP DUTY

• Group First

• Individual Second

• IDENTITY

• Self Tied to Other Selves

• SHARING

• Caring to Share

• Sharing to Care

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DifferencesCooperation & Communalism

• Cooperation• Loosely Structured

• Extrinsic Orientation• Motivated by Goals• Practical in Nature

Practice +

Repetition________Success

• Communalism• Definitively Structured• Intrinsic Orientation• Motivated by People

• Sociocentric in NatureSocial

+Cultural_______Success

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Community Building

Looks Likes

• A family-oriented community of learners

• Joint Tasks

• Accountable Discussions

• Mutual Agreements

• African American students learn best in family-oriented learning communities.

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Vervistic Focus

The use of high energy

and emotion to acquire

and retain information.

• Task Stimulation

• Task Variation

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