Thought competitions

Hi everyone,
I was surprised by this article from the Wall Street Journal. It tells how some schools discourage or do not allow students to compete in academic competitions such as science fairs or creative writing contests. I was shocked because my interest in creative writing spurs from competitions and writing fairs that I remember from [...]

Beers Ch. 15

Donna and I are scheduled to fascilitate the Beers Ch. 15 discussion in class, and I know Donna has a lot to say about the topic of flow during this discussion.  Just in case we do not have time to touch upon this chapter in our last class on Tuesday, I want to call out [...]

Post Colonial feedback; the Absence of the Irish!

Tyson mentions many ethnicities when she discusses Post Colonial Theory in her book Critical Theory Today. Although African
Americans were one of the more popular groups mentioned,  many groups have experienced various types of oppression throughout the world.
Native Americans lost their land to England Colonial powers; they still continue to struggle for freedom to this day as do Africans.
 In fact, many Native Americans fought along side African [...]

Some Fun with Theory

Take a look at how we might use a simple fruit to help our students play with theory. This is fun. KES

More on strategies

Hi everyone,
Since I couldn’t make it to class tonight (I am sick and do not have a voice to speak with anyway) I thought I would post a little more about my strategies on here. I have particularly developed my strategy for dealing with the poem, which I blogged about earlier. As I said before, [...]

Reading for Book Club (10/27)

The book I read for this week’s book club is Growing Up Asian American. It is a collection of short stories or excerpts written by authors identified as Asian American—from the second to the fifth immigrant groups. It is divided by three sections: memories, identity, and growing up. I have read some stories from the [...]

One Strategy

I’ve decided to use sociograms as one of my reading strategies for my seminar; this is also the one that I will talk about tonight.  I’m really just writing this post to give you this link.  This is a very comprehensive site on the topic, and it is great for learning about reading strategies in [...]

reading strategy

One strategy that I have found useful for my unit plan is known as “Extending Content Beyond the Text”. An example of how I plan on conducting this is as follows:
*First and foremost, always model the procedure. After doing so, then assign the procedure for the class to do it independently.*
1. Read article(s) from [...]

Implications for Teaching (HO)

Hello AED 541,
So often teachers have goals and exercises for their students that are never carried out. Why? Because the education system pressures teachers and administrators to “teach to the exam,” causing them to lack time for additional work, insight and activities. As the article in ch. 10’s “Implications for Teaching” states: “U.S. education has [...]

Strategies

Hi everyone,
I just wanted to say that I’m finding this week’s reading on learning strategies extremely helpful. How about everyone else?
I especially enjoyed the Beach/ ‘Obrien piece. I’m planning to use some of those strategies for my seminar. Tonight I will be sharing the rereading and revisiting texts strategies. I will apply the strategy to [...]