These are the class preparation sheets for my EDP 370: Applied Child Development Course: Unit 2 on Identity Development. This course is taught as a 'hacked' course. Lectures are prerecorded for students to listen to at home, we complete activities in-class. The culminating project is the Children's Thinking Project (adapted from Penelope Oldfather & West, 1999). Thus, we integrated a series of interviews from American Public Media: Dick Gordon's The Story radio program into the pedagogy for students to develop their interviewing skills. Flipped Videos can be accessed via the course ebook: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/edp-370-handbook/id705427002?mt=11

1. EDP 370: Applied Child Development
How can I prepare for class on February 25th ?
Tasks for Week of 2/18: Collect Data for Field Report #2
 Continue to ‘Record’ Observation Notes at your Field site (CONFER Lite)
 Read Jablon (1999) Chapter 2. Use required survey to build relationships.
o Download a required FORM into your iPad
o Put the FORM into off-line mode
 Listen Lectures 3abc on Culture Constructions of Identity, Culture of Power, and
Applying Identity Theories (in Dropbox)
o ALL Read Delpit’s (1988): “Other People’s Children.”
o Complete the activity on pgs. 92-93 of iBook
o Make slide of the ‘quote’ you want to discuss
 Read either:
o Group 1: Tonningsten: “Reclaiming Identity”
o Group 2: Hoff-Sommers: “The War Against Boys”
o Group 3: Roderiguez: “A Bilingual Childhood”
I am in Group
 Listen to one of these interviews (same group from above):
Group 1: Listen to Dick Gordon’s Interview: “The Talk”
http://www.thestory.org/stories/2012-04/talk
"Reuben Jackson, a regular guest on the show, says the Trayvon Martin murder has sparked
memories of the talk his parents gave him when he was young man. His father’s goal: prevent his son
from being misunderstood or hurt."
Group 2: Listen to Dick Gordon’s Interview: “Words to a Black Son”
http://www.thestory.org/stories/2012-03/words-black-son
"Dick speaks with Detric Goss. She is a mother of two who lives outside of Atlanta and says she sat
down with her 14- year-old son Tupac Marshall (above photo) for a talk about what it means to be a
young black man in America.... He also speaks with Nicholas Peart, a student at Borough of Manhattan
Community College, has been stopped and searched three times by New York City Police officers.
Each time, he says, they’ve told him he “fits the description” of someone they’re looking for. He tells
Dick he feels he is a target, and that he does not feel safe around police officers."
Group 3: Listen to Dick Gordon’s Interview: “American Promise”
http://www.thestory.org/stories/2013-05/american-promise
“When the elite, and mostly white, Dalton School in Manhattan wanted to diversify its student body, Joe
Brewster and Michele Stephenson enrolled their son in Kindergarten. The years at Dalton were not
easy for Idris or his parents, who chronicled everything on film. Idris is now in college, and the film of his
coming-of-age is called “American Promise.”