Beginning with a screening of one of the two faculty perspectives videos, and asking for participants to watch the original 20 minute videos from 2009, the project team then held discussions with groups numbering 15-40 on the content. Depending on the size of the group in the Zoom space, we'd use breakout rooms or keep everyone in the same room. Some of our questions are included below:
- What are some preliminary steps you’ve taken in your personal and professional roles to consider your responsibilities to these lands?
- What does consultation and co-creation look like in your research practices?
- What might it look like to decentralize the authority and knowledge in your classrooms?
- Many faculty emphasized the importance of positionality work in creating supportive classroom environments, how are you engaging with positionality work?
- How do you see the conversation of dismantling faculty expertise and welcoming mistakes reflected in your own teaching roles?
- What are some difficulties you navigate or anticipate experiencing when integrating Indigenous histories, realities, and perspectives into your classrooms?
- What are some strategies that you deploy to shift the tone of the classroom?
- A key theme of the faculty interviews was the importance of addressing the affective side of the classroom, for faculty and for students. How does engaging with emotion show up in your teaching role?