Cura Personalis: Caring for Me is Knowing my Name
This meeting on Feb. 17, 2021 included watching a video in which the professor mispronounces a student’s name. The group discussed the …
Open the Front Door
The Productive Discomfort groups frequently discusses using the Open the Front Door technique to respond to microaggressions and other productive discomfort moments. …
Zoom Backgrounds
The Productive Discomfort Group discussed how to handle Zoom backgrounds that disrupt classroom learning by examining a script written by Gonzaga theater …
Who We Are
On this page, you will find a variety of activities that create and help manage productive discomfort in the classroom. The Center …
A Group Exercise
Exercise about how the group works together to know things: Fill a box with 28-36 items and give students three seconds each …
Setting Up
When seeking to create a classroom environment that will be safe for the discussion of difficult topics, it is important to spend …
Campus Resources
Center for Teaching and Advising Mia Bertagnolli, Director Email: bertagnolli@gonzaga.edu Phone: 6687 Unity Multicultural Education Maria Isabel Morales, Ph.D. Program Coordinator, Student …
Scenarios
The members of the Productive Discomfort cohort often bring stories of inappropriate classroom scenarios to the cohort meetings. The group then discusses …
Scenario: Student makes a claim
Student makes a claim in class about a group but the professor does not know the facts to agree or disagree. For …
Scenario: Ground Rules Disagreement
Student disagrees with ground rules set up at the beginning of the class or breaks them during class. This is a scenario …