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Instructional Context and Assignment Descriptions
Assignment Goals and Learning Outcomes
Reflections on Implementing Our Assignments
Imagining Expansive Pedagogical Futures Towards Linguistic Justice
Imagining Expansive Pedagogical Futures Towards Linguistic Justice
As our experiences demonstrate, enacting linguistic justice is an ongoing, dynamic process of learning and growth for both students and instructors alike. However, as graduate student instructors, we are also uniquely positioned to learn new theories and experiment with new pedagogical practices. We encourage our peers to continue trying new techniques and approaches in the classroom to support their students’ languaging, despite the hesitations and fears they may have or the setbacks that may occur. Even if the impact is not immediate, the effort we put forth plays a crucial part in challenging conventions and enacting the change we hope to see.
We also want to emphasize the importance of building community in the project of enacting linguistic justice, because part of enacting the values in SRTOL means supporting fellow instructors as we navigate the challenges of implementing meaningful linguistic diversity in our classrooms and celebrating our successes. As we have found in our own collaboration, relying on one another for resources and support helps to normalize teaching towards CLA and linguistic justice. We can seek out other colleagues who want to incorporate translingualism into their curriculum, try drafting assignments together, and work as a community of practice.
The road to dismantling standardized language ideologies has been, and will continue to be, fraught with difficulty. However, we encourage you to take on these challenges, learn from our mistakes, and work together to move past your fears and imagine more expansive possibilities for your writing classrooms. As graduate student instructors, we lead the future of the field, and, if we are able to collectively make teaching toward linguistic justice the norm, our efforts will enact tangible change—not just for our current students, but for future generations of students as well.