Integrating technology seamlessly into lesson plans can significantly enhance student engagement, collaboration, and understanding. In this post, we will go over how three distinct technologies—Jamboard, NoRedInk, and Paper.co—were incorporated into a three-day lesson plan centered around exploring the theme of oppression in John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.” Day 1: Jamboard – Fostering Collaborative BrainstormingContinue reading “Embracing Technology to Enhance Literary”
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Differentiated Instruction for Diverse Student Needs
Addressing diverse student needs not only entails recognizing different learning styles but also catering to students with varying readiness levels, interests, and abilities. In this blog entry, I will share how I recently designed a lesson plan, addressing these important aspects of differentiation while also incorporating technology effectively. Evaluating and Choosing Instructional Strategies for DifferentiationContinue reading “Differentiated Instruction for Diverse Student Needs”
Enhancing Learning Through Understanding: Analyzing Student Learning Styles
In today’s education landscape, it’s important to recognize that students come to the classroom with diverse learning preferences and needs. As teachers, we need to understand the different types of learning styles so that we can create an inclusive and effective learning environment. In this blog post, we will delve into student data and exploreContinue reading “Enhancing Learning Through Understanding: Analyzing Student Learning Styles”
Technology to Enhance Differentiated Instruction and Support Diverse Learners
In the rapidly evolving landscape of education, technology has become a powerful ally in the quest to meet the unique needs of each student. Differentiated instruction tailors teaching to individual readiness, interests, and learning styles, and can be enriched by incorporating technology. Today, we will explore three cutting-edge technologies transforming the educational landscape, assessing theirContinue reading “Technology to Enhance Differentiated Instruction and Support Diverse Learners”
Global Culture and Identity
What makes up your identity? We know that culture plays a huge influence on our self-identity and how others see us. But what happens we blend cultures? It is becoming more common to have a global identity, as many families are bound by a blending of cultures that creates unique values. One of theContinue reading “Global Culture and Identity”
Maintaining Hope Through Atrocity
The world has seen many atrocities through its history, The Holocaust often centers the conversation when talking about the horrors this world has seen. When we think about Post-Holocaust Jewish literature, “The Diary of Anne Frank” sticks out, but many works hold significant and important value to the genre. When building a unit around “TheContinue reading “Maintaining Hope Through Atrocity”
Living in the Real World
Latin American literature explores the different facets of reality and how the bounds of reality can be expanded or contracted to enhance ideas, themes, and culture. We can explore this within a culture by exploring the works of Latin American authors including, Octavio Paz, Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, and Isabel Allende. RealismContinue reading “Living in the Real World”
What’s in a Name?
A story as tragic as “Romeo and Juliet” came to be, simply because of a name. The age-old question, “what’s in a name” reminds us of the importance of ancestry, names, and even cultural symbols. Taking a cultural approach to this question, we can examine different cultures and the importance they each hold in names.Continue reading “What’s in a Name?”
Nature and Spirit Through the Spoken Word
This week, I am talking about the importance of words, not just the written word, which we all know I appreciate, but rather the tradition of the spoken word. Seen predominately in Native American culture, used as a means to preserve precious stories, ceremonies, and allegories. Native American literature gives us a look into theContinue reading “Nature and Spirit Through the Spoken Word”
Culture is Not Static
This week, we explore themes of culture as they begin to adapt and change. Tradition and modernization are important themes throughout these Chinese stories: “Diary of a Madman” by Lu Xun “Sealed Off” by Zhang Ailing “Man of La Mancha” by Chu T’Ien-Hsin All three authors explore the ideas of the New Culture Movement asContinue reading “Culture is Not Static”
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