Courageous Conversations: Histories

Updated May 30, 2017

Teens Educators Grades Sixth – Eighth Grades Ninth – Twelfth Social Emotional Learning Video

These video modules, created by the Detroit Institute of Arts, feature Metro Detroit high school students from diverse backgrounds. The videos are designed to support educators in facilitating conversations about such potentially challenging topics as identity and race in their classrooms. The modules can be used as a pre- or post-visit resource or independently of a visit to the museum. Along with the links below for each video module, there are discussion prompts that may be helpful for guiding conversations with students. Educators can modify and use these flexible and open-ended prompts in many different ways to inspire thinking and discussion among students.

 

Discussion Prompts

We are constantly being bombarded with information. How often do we question the source and perspective of the information provided?

How might we develop our own informed opinions?

These video modules, created by the Detroit Institute of Arts, feature Metro Detroit high school students from diverse backgrounds. The videos are designed to support educators in facilitating conversations about such potentially challenging topics as identity and race in their classrooms. The modules can be used as a pre- or post-visit resource or independently of a visit to the museum. Along with the links below for each video module, there are discussion prompts that may be helpful for guiding conversations with students. Educators can modify and use these flexible and open-ended prompts in many different ways to inspire thinking and discussion among students.

 

Discussion Prompts

We are constantly being bombarded with information. How often do we question the source and perspective of the information provided?

How might we develop our own informed opinions?