Lesson Plan

STEP ONE: TOPIC/STANDARDS ARTICULATED

• LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transexual, and Queer)
• Providing future teachers with a interactive foundation in which they can create a safe space for all students in their classroom.

STEP TWO: GOALS & OBJECTIVES

• Teachers will understand the injustices felt by LGBTQ teens in the school setting.
• Teachers will know what a safe space is and how to create one in their classroom.
• Teachers will know how to deal with/react to harassment in the classroom/school.
• Theme: How to create a safe space?

STEP THREE: MATERIALS

• Paper, Smartboard, Whiteboard, Pens, Pencils, Powerpoint, Videos from Youtube.com, students with an open mind…

STEP FOUR: PROCEDURES & STRATEGIES

INTO: Gay Bashing Activity

• Make everyone feel really uncomfortable, check.
• Students thinking about prior experiences with gay bashing

THROUGH:

• Intro group, review the blog and objectives (5 min)
• Megan talks about field trip(2min)
• Video-Youtube-Racism and Gay Bashing (5 min) (Craig) (Start at 3:12 end at 6:09)
• Hand Out Two Sheets of Statistics- Positive Images and GLSEN (Craig)

-Half of class gets one sheet, half the other, split them into groups (3-4 per…6 groups)

-Read statistics and highlight important stats (5 min)

-Report out on important or shocking statistics, short discussion (5min)

• Jigsaw paragraphs in groups report out with spokesperson(10 min)
• Mike will split up paragraphs
• Questions Group Activity (approx. 20 min maybe less)—intro w/ second Youtube(Mike)

1. How would you address students concerns about LGBTQ people holding certain jobs or positions?

2. How would you react to students making anti-LGBTQ jokes?

3. What about staff members making anti-LGBTQ jokes?

4. As a teacher, how would you address student fears of LGBTQ people influencing others to become homosexual?

5. How would you respond to a student being bullied or harassed about their sexual orientation?

6. What would do if a student came to you and said “I think I’m gay,” would you suggest that they see a therapist? What if they said, “I think I’m transgender.”

BEYOND:

• Hand out Pledge to Act(Safe Zone Pledge)—Megan reads “THE PLEDGE TO ACT”
• Powerpoint-Name it, Claim It, and Stop it—Erik
• Direct Classmates to the blog for Safe Zone sticker…
• Citations—GLSEN, Positive Images, Youtube.com

STEP FIVE: ASSESSMENT

• For future teachers, its up to you how you use this information in your classroom, we can only make suggestions, but you must do what you feel is right as well as what you are comfortable with.

STEP SIX: ADDRESSING CONTENT LANGUAGE &ACADEMIC LITERACY/LANGUAGE

• We will post links online to vocabulary sheets for various terms regarding the LGBTQ community and their allies.

Questions, Comments, Concerns…