Lesson Plan Example With Active Learning

Unconscious Bias and its relation to Diversity Implementation

Lesson 1 - Unconscious Bias and its relation to Diversity Implementation

Content

Explore your own unconscious Bias to understand better how it works

Understand how we act with people demographically different from us

Understand how Unconscious Bias affects our decision making

Activity

Closest friends’ activity 30 mins

Stereotype activity 60 mins

Group discussin-lecture on definitions of unconscous bias 30 mins

Assessment

500-word reflective exercise on the discovery of ones own unconscious bias.

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Active Learning 1

Step 1:

Please put the initials of your closest 5-10 friends here-please no family:

Step 2:

Now Fill out the rest of the chart

Step 3:

You will be assigned a Breakout room

You have 10 minutes to explore with each other?

Be prepared to discuss it also with the class

Ask your self:

What am I seeing?

Do I see a pattern?

How does if feel when I put my circle on paper?

What did you see in your discussion partners circle?

Active Learning 2:

Please fill out the hand-outs-online charts you are given

Assessment: