Diversity Training Addressing Stereotype Threat in the Classroom
[NO AUDIO] CATHY L. DRENNAN: So welcome everybody. I hope you're really excited about this semester coming up, and getting involved with teaching. So I am Professor Cathy Drennan, a professor here at MIT in the Chemistry and Biology Department. And I want to start today-- so this workshop is about stereotype, stereotype threat, wise criticism, unconscious bias. And I want to start, because you're going to be teachers, with telling you about my motivation for doing this training. I think she's a chemist. Why is she standing up here telling us about this? So as teachers, it's good to tell your students about your motivation. So what is my motivation? Well, my motivation was-- this a story from a number of years ago, and I was asked to attend a workshop happening at Harvard on increasing diversity in the sciences. And so when you went to register for this workshop they gave you a homework assignment. I thought that was interesting. So my homework assignment w...