Peer Diversity Educators (PDE)
Programs
Diversity Mixers | Gender | Race | Ability | Diversity
Diversity Mixers
Whistle While You Are Working Poor
This program addresses the cyclic nature of poverty throughout generations and addresses the difficulty one faces when trying to work him/herself out of they cycle of poverty. Participants will be able to recognize how personal and institutional characteristics contribute to poverty and what they can do as individuals to change the current climates surrounding the issue of poverty.
Winner Takes All
This interactive program provides participants an opportunity to explore the mentality of genocide, where it begins, and how it is perpetuated. It is designed to create awareness of the smaller prejudices that can lead to genocide in our immediate community and assists particpants in understanding their role in stopping these beginning levels of genocidal thought in society. Through participation, they will realize how easy it is to establish an "us vs. them" mindset, examine the process and steps, and discuss historical and present day examples.
Why Won't you Tell Me Your Name?
Length: 20 min
Participants will receive labels with simple directions written on them.
Participants interact with one another and hold a group discussion where
they will see that we treat people according to how we, or society, label
them.
Diversity Within Us
Length: 1-1.5 hours
This interactive program explores the diversity within each of us that is visible and hidden. Participants will learn more
about themselves and others in the group. A great group bonding activity!!!
Social Styles
Length: 1-1.5 hours
This fun and interactive program lets people explore their own style for dealing with others and the other participants'
styles also. This program will help any group work better together afterwards - guaranteed!
Your Piece in Peace
Length: 1 - 1.5 hours
Participants will follow the story of a Chinese elder. The group will make critical decisions about his life, based on the
information given to them. The game is designed to illustrate the value of each human being, the criteria of decision-making,
and the advantages/disadvantages of world peace.
Gender
Malebox
In this program, participants will examine the boundaries that have been placed on what is considered acceptable behavior for a male (and female), and how society affects those boundaries. Participants will be able to discuss how quality of life can be decreased by these restrictions and how to become aware of and break away from the influences.
Man, I Feel Like a Woman
Length: 1 hour
The purpose of this activity is to try and make men feel what it is like to be a woman in society today and contrastingly makes
women aware of what it is like to be male. This will hopefully make males and females more understanding and empathetic to the
issues that the opposite gender faces and, in turn, this will open discussion on how these problems can be solved.
The F-Word
Length: 1 hour
Through guided class and small group discussions participants will be introduced to feminism as a non-threatening, productive,
socially necessary way of thought. The objectives for this lesson are to have participants share their views on feminism,
examine their beliefs about feminist thought, and learn the importance of the feminist movement.
Women in the Media
Length: 1 - 2 hours depending on the class
The purpose of this program is to increase student's awareness of how women are used in advertisements and the effects this has
on women's health and self-image. Through video and analysis of magazine advertisements participants will be shown how women in
the media are portrayed. Participants will examine their beliefs about body image and feminism through a large group discussion.
Race
Privilege Walk
Length: 1 hour
This interactive program provides participants with an opportunity to understand the intricacies of social privileges.
Participants will be read a series of questions and then asked to take steps forward or backward based on their own personal
experiences. These questions are geared towards recognizing the different types of privileges in our society and how they affect
the lives of others. This intense and sometimes emotional program helps people realize just how privileged members of our
society are and what they can do to minimize these disparities between people in our society.
Ability
How Difficult Can This Be?
This activity is a simulation of what a learning disabled student might feel every day. Participants will see first-hand how frustrating it can be when differences in ability are not taken into consideration and accomodated for.
Diversity
Baby Mall
Length: 1 - 2 hours
Participants will be led through a simulated 'Baby Mall' where they will be confronted with the concept that certain ethnic
backgrounds have inherent privileges. They will also examine their own values on various human attributes. Participants will be
paired up and given a 'child'. With this "child" they are to purchase the persona they think their 'child' will need to succeed
in our society.
BaFa, BaFa
Length: 1 - 1.5 hours
This is an intercultural learning experience. After familiarizing themselves with a new culture, participants will 'travel
abroad' and visit a new society. This activity teaches the participants the difficulties that one under goes when experiencing
another culture that is different then their own.
Diverse Perspectives
Length: 1 hour
The purpose of this lesson is to help participants recognize that many points of view may exist on any given topic. Participants
will express their points of view on certain issues by standing in different corners of the classroom labeled: strongly agree,
agree, disagree, strongly disagree, or unsure. The lesson then asks participants to consider how they formed their opinions and
perspectives. Participants will be exposed to value of listening to others' perspectives and respecting them.
What were YOU thinking?
Length: 1 hour
Through a unique interaction with the Peer Diversity Educators, students will become aware of the power of first impressions
and how those impressions affect their treatment of others. The ultimate goal of this program is for students to learn that it
takes more than one experience to get to know someone and that the true value of a person comes from what is inside.
International Relations
Length: 1 hour
This activity allows participants to write a summary of a typical day in the life of a business person in different parts of
the world. Participants share their stories with other classmates. At the end, actual stories of these business people will be
shared with the class. Participants learn about international business culture.
You Say PoTAYto, I Say PoTAHto
Length: 50 Min.
This interactive and engaging program in game show format allows stuents to realize the diversity of language while exploring
the issues of dialect, Politically Correct speech, Standard American English, and the impact language has on the impressions we
give others. Participants will be split into two groups and, as in Family Feud, will be asked to think of words or phrases
that signify the same as the one that is first given by the game show host.
The Game of Life
Length: 1- 1.5 hours
Participants go through the Game of Life starting with high school and ending with retirement. Their goal is to accomplish as
much as they can regardless of the discrimination they face. Participants experience firsthand the discrimination that some
people have to deal with on a daily basis. Players will face racism, sexism, and classism.
Visit to Albatross
Length: 1 hour
This is an intercultural learning experience. Through a unique ceremonial greeting with members of Albatross, participants
will experience life in another culture. Following the ceremonial greeting, participants will discuss their observations of
what happened during the ceremony-first from an ethnocentric point of view. Following those observations, participants will be
encouraged to examine the ceremony from a cultural relativistic viewpoint. The object of this exercise is to understand how
our own ethnocentric biases play out in our daily lives and our interactions with others.
Who Gets In?
Length: 45 minutes - 1.5 hours
Participants are divided into teams and each team's goal is to select people to accept into their university. The people are
selected from a list, which contains limited information about their attributes and characteristics. Participants are
challenged to look at the assumptions and expectations they hold about others who are different from them. Players see that
differences can strengthen and enrich human experiences and enable people to achieve their goals in all aspects of life.
Wrong Side of the Tracks
Length: 1 - 1.5 hours
During this activity, participants see first hand what stereotypes are associated with their identity. Every individual will
feel what it is like to be classified into a minority group in this eye-opening program.
