Module 4: Biases, Stereotypes, Aggressions, & Privilege
Part 3: STereotypes & Stereotype Threat
Stereotypes are likely a familiar idea to many people. However, the impacts of stereotypes may not always be fully considered. This part explores stereotypes and the resulting stereotype threat.
Suggested Goals:
1. To understand stereotypes and stereotype threat.
2. To apply the concept of stereotype threat as a tool to understand and improve interactions at school with both students and parents.
3. To begin to consider how to minimize or eliminate the impacts of stereotype threat in the classroom.
Suggested Goals:
1. To understand stereotypes and stereotype threat.
2. To apply the concept of stereotype threat as a tool to understand and improve interactions at school with both students and parents.
3. To begin to consider how to minimize or eliminate the impacts of stereotype threat in the classroom.
&1: Stereotypes & Stereotype threat
The idea of stereotypes is fairly common throughout our lives. Many of us understand that stereotypes are beliefs or ideas that we have based on our experiences and generalized to an entire group. Stereotypes may be good or bad, beneficial or harmful.
Read:
Stereotypes
https://www.simplypsychology.org/katz-braly.html
Watch:
Attitudes and Stereotypes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FgqGAXvLB8&feature=youtu.be
Read:
Stereotypes
https://www.simplypsychology.org/katz-braly.html
Watch:
Attitudes and Stereotypes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FgqGAXvLB8&feature=youtu.be
How Students Experience and Cope With Racist Stereotypes
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/how-students-experience-and-cope-with-racist-stereotypes
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Read/Watch:
How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do: An Introduction to Stereotype Threat
https://facingtoday.facinghistory.org/how-stereotypes-affect-us-and-what-we-can-do-an-introduction-to-stereotype-threat
Reflect:
- What stereotypes have you learned?
- How have you experienced stereotypes - either by holding them or being the target of them?
- How do stereotypes impact your practice as an educator?
As Claude Steele introduced in the video embedded in the previous article, stereotypes can result in deeper impacts. For people that are the targets of stereotypes, stereotype threat can develop. Stereotype threat can impact how relationships develop. Performance can also be impacted by stereotype threat.
Read:
What Is Stereotype Threat?
https://www.colorado.edu/philosophy/climate/what-stereotype-threat
Stereotype Threat: An Overview
https://diversity.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/stereotype_threat_overview.pdf
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Understanding Stereotype Threat
https://www.slu.edu/cttl/resources/resource-guides/understanding-stereoytpe-threat.pdf
https://www.slu.edu/cttl/resources/resource-guides/understanding-stereoytpe-threat.pdf
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Stereotype Threat in School and at Work: Putting Science into Practice
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2372732214548861
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2372732214548861
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Watch:
Stereotype Threat: A Conversation with Claude Steele
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=58&v=failylROnrY&feature=emb_logo
Stereotype Threat: A Conversation with Claude Steele
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=58&v=failylROnrY&feature=emb_logo
Consider how stereotype threat impacts you as an educator and your students. As Claude Steele states, all people are subject to some type of stereotype. Now, think specifically how stereotype threat can affect your students of color. There may be different impacts that depend on discipline, the region where students live and attend school, and other contexts. Listen to Claude Steele as you think about stereotype threat and interactions between teachers and parents.
Read/Listen:
“What Makes You Susceptible is Caring About Doing Well”: Claude Steele on Stereotype Threat
https://ed.stanford.edu/news/what-makes-you-susceptible-caring-about-doing-well-claude-steele-stereotype-threat
Reflect:
- How have you witnessed or experienced stereotype threat in meetings with students or parents?
- How does learning about stereotype threat inform your future practice and interactions?
Now that you have considered some ideas about stereotype threat, the next section will provide an overview of how to respond to stereotype threat.
Read:
Countering Stereotype Threat
https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/countering-stereotype-threat
How Teachers Can Reduce Stereotype Threat in the Classroom
https://cesp.rutgers.edu/blog/how-teachers-can-reduce-stereotype-threat-classroom
Empirically Validated Strategies to Reduce Stereotype Threat
https://ed.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/interventionshandout.pdf
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Reflect:
The next part looks at macroaggressions and microaggressions, some of which may stem from biases and stereotypes.
- What is stereotype threat and how could it be connected to racism in the classroom?
- Can you identify three ways that stereotype threat may impact students in your classroom or in your content area?
- What next steps could you take to minimize or eliminate the effects of stereotype threat and to become more antiracist?
The next part looks at macroaggressions and microaggressions, some of which may stem from biases and stereotypes.
