The UBC School of Journalism, Writing, and Media is pleased to present 2 seminars featuring guest speaker and host Asao B. Inoue, Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University, for a virtual event as part of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Speaker Series.
Reserve your ticket today for this free public event. The webinar link and passcode will be shared with registrants prior to the event.
Click HERE to register now!
Or enter the short-link into your browser: bit.ly/3ApceJg
Keynote: Understanding and Doing Antiracist Classroom Assessment 10:00 am – 11:30 am
This keynote talk considers what antiracist assessment can be in university courses and how faculty from across disciplines from Humanities to STEM courses can meaningfully engage in it. It argues that classroom assessment, from grading to feedback on literacy performances, is an ecology made up of seven interconnected elements. Understanding any classroom as an assessment ecology can provide a way to design and enact antiracist assessment practices in courses. Furthermore, Inoue details twelve habits of antiracist teachers that are necessary in more fully developing antiracist pedagogies and assessments. There will be a Q&A period.
Faculty Workshop: How to Confront White Language Supremacy in Course Language Standards and Grading 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
This interactive workshop offers a short discussion that explains the presence of white language supremacy in all university courses that ask for language performances of some kind, either as a demonstration of learning or as a method for learning. This includes the use of language in STEM courses. It then engages participants in two antiracist classroom assessment activities. The first activity demonstrates labor-based grading as an antiracist practice. The second activity offers a heuristic, the habits of white language (HOWL), that teachers can use to help them identify and confront white language supremacy in their feedback and other language activities in their courses. There will be a Q&A period and a handout of resources.
