As educators, it is important to make students feel valued and respected. Lesson planning should consider the specific needs, assets, and experiences of your students. Taking into consideration students’ cultures, languages, and life experiences will allow educators to plan culturally responsive, standards-based ELA instruction that supports individual students’ needs and builds a positive classroom culture. […]

Option A. · Select a topic of interest on Khan Academy or TED-Ed and complete a module or watch a video. · Reflect on how the content enhanced your critical thinking skills and how you could incorporate similar tools in your future classroom. Requirements: · Write a reflective essay of 500-700 words. Include specific examples […]

Part A For this week, reflect on your experience with satire. What satire how you read or watched? What kind of satire would you want to analyze for assignment 3? Part B Assignment 3 Check-In is a 1-2 minute recorded presentation in which you will ( just write it out and I will record it) […]

Overview: The purpose of the assignment is for students to observe teachers in a real-world setting. Students will do one observation of an elementary school PE class. Students must contact the teachers they plan on observing and receive permission to observe and to arrange a day and time for the observation. Students should bring a […]

“We may think we’ve heard the whole story, but that story resonates more deeply when we read letters. Part of the reason for that resonance is the immediacy of letters. Letters are what history sounds like when it is still part of everyday life… Lord Byron wrote ‘Letter writing is the only device for combining […]