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Oral Communication

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A Podcast for every occasion! How can you use oral communication to enter the 21 st Century and support learners using differentiated instruction? The answer to both is podcasts! Podcasts are popular with young people, as a way to learn about content they are interested in while being able to multitask. Podcasts are like a revival of the radio, where people listen to talk shows, but they are online and can be listened to anywhere! With this popularity and ease of use, podcasts can be a great way to teach concepts in class. You may be asking; how can I use podcasts in my lesson? Ø   Students create a podcast to demonstrate learning, as part of a culminating assessment, and to share with the class as student teachers (Gray, 2017) Ø   Recorded lectures by the teacher could be used as review/study guides, so students can learn at their own pace and to help students who missed classes catch up (Gray, 2017) Ø   For differentiated instruction to support stude...
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Writing

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Writing is Social Justice! Words are a person’s tool to state their opinion/beliefs , express their views on world issues, and advocate for change. With writing being such a powerful tool, teachers need to help students learn to love writing, as well as see how it can create change. I want to examine two lesson plans that demonstrate teaching writing from a social justice perspective, as well as go over the 6 elements of Social Justice Education. Thus, this blog can become a resource to understand how you can include social justice in your writing lessons. The 6 Elements of Social Justice Education  This section is paraphrased from http://www.usingtheirwords.org/6elements/ . 1)     Self-love and knowledge ® students learn about who they are and where they are from   ® example writing activities: name poems, where are you from poems 2)     Respect for others ® students share about their own culture with the class to...
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Reading

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I Can’t Read! 😖💬               We know students who have declared ‘I can’t read!’ What if you had the resources at your fingertips to know how to help struggling readers? Through the use of the site Edugains , I will examine three resources that demonstrate the way teachers can help students who struggle with reading, using academic research.  “How to help students who struggle with reading”                LiteracyGains (2013), explains how you can support struggling students in reading complex texts, through explicit instruction to build skills that will improve reading. This resource is particularly helpful for teacher candidates or new teachers! LiteracyGains (2013) outlines what good readers should do before, during and after reading. This list could be used to help inform your reading lessons and be used as a checklist for students to help them practice...
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Media Literacy

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Media Literacy  Resource 1 Common Sense Education. (2017). Cyberbullying: Be Upstanding . Retrieved from https://www.commonsense.org/education/system/files/uploads/classroom-curriculum/6-8-unit1-cyberbullyingbeupstanding.pdf?x=1                                               This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY Resource Critique              This lesson plan teaches students how to become a brave upstander when they see a person being cyberbullied. This lesson is for grades 6-8, but I think it could be modified for younger grades, as I believe it is important for all students to understand how to stand up against bullying on and offline. The lesson teaches online etiquette, creates an un...
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