贝博体育
马萨诸塞州南堡的幼儿园-九年级
马萨诸塞州南堡的幼儿园-九年级
贝博体育app杂志：2017秋冬
获得观点，建立社区
The mission of the 上学校’s Community Connections group resonates particularly strongly this year, as students discuss issues of diversity and difference with openness and respect.
“Gaining Perspective” isn’t just the title of 贝博体育’s schoolwide theme for this year. It’s also central to the mission of Community Connections, a student-led, faculty-advised workshop group whose goal is to encourage awareness and respect for people’s differences within the community.
在教师的组织和学生领袖的推动下，社区联系每月召开一到两次会议，在鼓励尊重和开放的倾听和分享的氛围中讨论学生身份、多样性和包容性等敏感问题。 周五晚上的会议对整个高中社区开放，学生们通常在会议开始前分享晚餐并互相交流。
Community Connections kicked off its first meeting this year by focusing on 贝博体育’s schoolwide theme. The meeting started with a video that showed how an individual’s perception of an event can differ vastly depending on experience and identity. 接下来是罗夏卡活动，要求学生描述他们在无定形图形中看到的东西。 Students were surprised by each other’s answers, but when each student explained his or her interpretation of the image, the other students found that they were suddenly able to see the same thing.
“The activity was a great illustration of how easy it is to get upset and defensive,” says teacher Sarah Ripton, “but when you take a moment, focus on being mindful, and listen, you may be able to see another perspective and begin a conversation.”
学生们还参加了一项活动，他们写下由不同单词引起的情绪。 The words became more loaded as the activity progressed, starting with terms like “family” and “friendship” and moving on to concepts like “prejudice” or “racism.” Sarah noted that students who associated safety and security with the word “police” were intrigued to hear other students express an alternate view. “It’s important for middle school students to have safe spaces for open, non- confrontational dialogue that builds understanding,” she says, noting that the ability to move beyond one’s own world view and see other perspectives is a developmental challenge common to all adolescents and young teens.
当一个话题在小组中引起强烈共鸣时，可能很难结束会议。 A recent meeting on labels and prejudice, called “My Story,” produced energetic discussion as the students considered the assumptions they make about one another on a daily basis and how misguided they can be. “We opened the meeting up for students to talk about their personal experiences, and they could have kept going until one in the morning!” 莎拉笑着说。
虽然交流很活跃，但社区联系不仅仅是一个讨论的出口，该组织还专注于用积极的行动来解决问题。 在贝博体彩app标签的会议之后，学生们创造了一个涂鸦和平墙，这是一个积极思想的视觉骚乱 以及学生在遇到冒犯性言论、行为或想法时可以采取的可行措施。 “We want to move students away from the idea that they don’t have the power to fix these things,” says Sarah. “It’s important for students to have a voice and a sense of control.”
After a recent meeting, Community Connections student- leader Zahaan Khalid ’18 was moved to send a note to the faculty coordinators, suggesting that the group is certainly meeting that goal. “Thank you so much for an amazing workshop today,” he wrote. “I feel like I got to say things I felt that I have not necessarily been able to express. 我很高兴我能够在一个人们倾听和联系而不是评判和区分的环境中表达自己。 I am grateful and proud to be a leader in these workshops, and I feel very heard.”
