Evaluations from September 21, 1999

Topic:

• Overview of the "Isms" Team Building #3: How Are We Alike?
• An American Love Story #2 (Pt. 1)
• Team Building #4: How Are We Different?

Rank today's presentation from 1 to 4 (1=totally useless and 4=Very useful)

1. Overall evaluation of class: 3.76

2. What was the most useful or meaningful thing you learned or insight you gained during the session?

•  What the people in the class thought. Everyone has very different issues.
• various perspectives of racism.
• the meaning of Race from other people's point of view
• Diff.perspectives/opinions
• How to accept others opinions, although they may not be my own!
• glad we had a discussion-the first few classes, there wasn't much group discussion
• How important these issues are to generation; I don't think we know the power we have.
• That I might not be fully ready to integrate relationships-
• That peoples opinions very from background and life experiences
• People opinions on the issues we discussed too many to list.
• That I need to educate not only my daughter, but the future kids of America to like everyone for who they are.
• I think that just trying to get a definition for race, ethnicity as a group showed me that people think alike and that many people have the same perspectives of others as I do.
• A lot of people feel strongly on the issues of race, class, and gender.
• That everyone has completely different backgrounds and views and that we need to hear everyone out + not be close-minded.
• Everyone is pretty adamant on the topic of racism. Most people in this class seem to be very open-minded
• Being able to voice my opinion on race, gender + class
• How everyone opened up and told their different feelings about the world today.
• Our discussion on racism
• How everyone had their own opinions on racism.
• It's easy to express my opinions in this environment
• Discussing race, class + gender
• People use verbal safe gaurds(sic) when speaking of vital issues.
• listening to other's radically different views
• Seeing all the diff. views during the games.
• how other's feel about discrimination and their views on gender and race
• Everyone's view of Race.
• This class was useful in waking people up on issues of racism.
• class discussion on racism prejudice

3. What question(s) remain uppermost in your mind as we end?

•  I don't know...everything we talked about.
• Who are we ??
• How do we really/truely(sic) discribe (sic) ourselves without color
• How to take so many topics/standpoints/issues and combine them.
• Was everyone sincere. I guess we will never know, but I hope we all gained insight.
• how does the author of the book feel about being multi-racial
• How can the society reconcile the time we are living in and the need to have racial harmony
• Media paper /Voice journal is it just a journal or will there be a paper for it
• Do these people really feel that way outside the class?
• What should I do about my "voice"?
• What will be my voice?
• None
• Why does the citation have to be on top of the index card.
• What does the Media Proposal have to be on? Just a movie?
• The media paper what movie I want to do.
• are we becoming less racist?
• will racism ever stop?
• Media Proposal
• I do not understand the Media Proposal and not sure what my voice is
• What do you expect from our Index summaries and journals. Please be specific.
• how will this project change me
• Whether or not I can handle the work.
• note cards
• What is my view
• media reviews

4. What was the "muddiest" point in this session? (In other words, what was the least clear to you?)

•  ?
• the video of the third grade class. Ifelt it was wrong and unjust
• Where do we go from here. Are we trying to convince others to take our views as their own, or just learning to accept all of the views
• Certain people's views, Abortion is a very big issue for me. It surprises me how many women feel the government should decide what to do on their bodies!!
• media review
• N/A
• Time!!!
• The part in which we had to divide + decide for or against certain issues.
• The index card part.
• Nothing really. (2
• None
• Not being able to get in the circle.
• Why we couldn't get into the circle
• Media Proposal
• Why did we watch the American love story
• I was dissapointed with myself for the cards
• The media proposal/ paper
• american love story because ?(unable to read) it
• The project due Sept. 28
• The game where we wouldn't let people in the circle.

5. Other comments:

•  I love the debate! Especially multi-faceted opinions.
• Overwhelming. there just seems to be so much involved in "social issues" and not enough time to really disect (sic) each issue. Perhaps the class topics could be organized better EX: strictly race one day. gender or class another.
• People have interesting views/ but I'm not sure they are aware of how they really feel.
• I love the way you teach! Keep it up!
• I enjoyed talking out + seeing what everyone else has been feeling.
• I really enjoyed todays class with everyone sharing what they thought.
• Nothing
• I wear a cape.