[Image Description: This is a drawing of a class Maria taught class created by Jacqueline Andrews. Each of us in the class contributed to this collective image description. Everyone is posed in various teaching and learning positions, with fragments of our conversations floating around us. Maria, a short, cisgender, white, curly haired, disabled woman stands at the front of the room, wearing a mask and gesturing with her hand. Jenn, a latina woman with a top bun, looks at her computer while listening to class. Tianyi, a chinese woman and she’s very quiet. She has long hair and is always on her laptop. Bielka, a brown Latina female, is quietly listening. Dustin, a white male with dirty blonde short hair with his head resting on his hand. He is wearing a Black t-shirt and black jeans. Coming from his head is a speech bubble that says: “Visuals important in subject teaching: eg. cells, charts.” Carina, a white woman with blonde hair in a messy bun held up by a claw clip. There are loose pieces of hair framing her face, tucked behind each ear. She is wearing a grey sweatshirt with navy text that reads: COLUMBIA TEACHERS COLLEGE. Coming from her head is a speech bubble that asks: “What should we know about epilepsy in the classroom as future educators?” Benny is a brown trans woman, really serving, with long mermaid-like black hair and usually a tank top with a fun skirt, and tattoos. Coming from her head is a speech bubble that says: “Most things you’re showing as an art educator are visual.” Rachel, a disabled Latina with curly dark brown hair is sitting on a chair and holding a pen. Coming from her head is a speech bubble that says “visuals are everything in bilingual teaching”. Around the image are various notes emerging from class discussion, that say things like: “if someone you don’t know has a seizure, wait until they wake up and ask before calling 911… Epilepsy is seen by police very differently in white people vs. people of color… if a seizure goes on for too long, you will know!… always call if a child is having a seizure… The dream where you’re falling is actually a non-epileptic seizure… If Maria has a seizure, wait and then call a designated friend! Not 911!… visual rhetoric: use relevantly! no visuals that deflect meaning… Rubric: make sure teach-in is accessible & understandable.” There are also drawings of seizure first aid posters: one shows symptoms and one shows first aid.]
Body Tricks