Resources for ETAs

Lesson Plans

We are always looking to collect and share lesson plans for all age ranges on topics of interest to the LGBTQ community. If you have lesson plans to share, email them to us!

Iowa Safe Schools

Iowa Safe Schools’ mission is to provide safe, supportive, and nurturing learning environments and communities for LGBTQ and allied youth through education, outreach, advocacy, and direct services.  They have generously made many of their courses available to Fulbright Prism free of charge. You just need to register!

Some example courses from Iowa Safe Schools include (click for sample syllabus):

• A Very Queer History: LGBTQ History & Classroom Inclusion

• Making Your Classroom Safe for LGBTQ Youth

• Stopping Bullying in Its Tracks: Understanding Power Imbalance

Fulbridge

Our partners at Fulbridge maintain a robust lesson catalog and blog that ETAs may find helpful!

Tretter Transgender Oral History Project (TTOHP)

The Tretter Collection in GLBT Studies at the University of Minnesota includes video interviews with transgender people in the U.S.  Viewing these interviews with your English students can serve to spark discussions on various themes. Some ideas:

• Ask your students to look online for personal accounts of trans people in their society, and to come to class prepared to present brief summaries of what they find. Have students watch one of the interviews in the TTOHP archive, either in class or as homework. Lead a discussion comparing the ways gender minorities are treated in your host society to the experiences related by the interview subjects.

• View the interview with immigrant justice advocate Ola Osaze. Ola ”is an amazing storyteller and connects his own life experiences with the experiences of those who are detained.” Have your students research online writings by immigrants in your host country. What are conditions like in refugee camps and detention centers? Lead a discussion on the similarities and differences of the immigrant experience in the U.S. to the immigrant experience in your host country.

• As homework, have the students listen to the podcast “Transcripts” here. It’s focused on trans experiences in the Southern U.S.  During class discussion, ask students about regional differences in their own country and how power differentials between wealthier and poorer areas affect politics and social realities. How are vulnerable members of society treated in wealthier areas as opposed to in poorer areas? Work as a group to develop a definition of “intersectionality” and discuss the ways that varying levels of relative privilege play out.