My 8P24 Langauge Blog

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...

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...