Post your reflections of chapter one "Culture," from the book, Developing Multicultural Educators, by Jana Noel.
Please comment on two reflections. Your comments should be thoughtful and at least 100 hundered words.
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Notes from Aug. 23, 2012
Our first class was exciting! Twenty-eight people in the Norcross Lab of the ISC! I must say it was a bit intimidating for me, but the enthusiasm of the class soon put me at ease.
We went through the course paperwork: pre-advisement forms, syllabus, and attendance policy.
Here are some of the class activities:
Cultural Perception Worksheet - Students compiled a variety of perceptions of classmates and then met to discuss the reality. The class then discussed the perception v. reality and why.
Word Splash - small groups arranged 10 words from the course description, the groups predicted what the words were from and what they described.
Personal Word Splash - participants created their own word splashes about themselves on a piece of notebook paper and then shared them using "Circle of Friends" strategy.
Circle of Friends - a fluency strategy that has many different names. Students form two circles an inner and an outer. The two circle face each other and each person has a partner in the other circle. Members of the outer circle tell about their personal word splash for 30 seconds. Time is called. The outer circle takes a step to the right and repeats the description again. This continues until the outer circle returns to the beginning. Then the inner circle begins speaking using the same 30 second step to the right format.
Following each activity discussions were held as to how these could be modified for use in their classrooms.
Please feel free to post your comments about these activities.
These were just a few of the activities from our first meeting.
We went through the course paperwork: pre-advisement forms, syllabus, and attendance policy.
Here are some of the class activities:
Cultural Perception Worksheet - Students compiled a variety of perceptions of classmates and then met to discuss the reality. The class then discussed the perception v. reality and why.
Word Splash - small groups arranged 10 words from the course description, the groups predicted what the words were from and what they described.
Personal Word Splash - participants created their own word splashes about themselves on a piece of notebook paper and then shared them using "Circle of Friends" strategy.
Circle of Friends - a fluency strategy that has many different names. Students form two circles an inner and an outer. The two circle face each other and each person has a partner in the other circle. Members of the outer circle tell about their personal word splash for 30 seconds. Time is called. The outer circle takes a step to the right and repeats the description again. This continues until the outer circle returns to the beginning. Then the inner circle begins speaking using the same 30 second step to the right format.
Following each activity discussions were held as to how these could be modified for use in their classrooms.
Please feel free to post your comments about these activities.
These were just a few of the activities from our first meeting.
Welcome Cohort!
Our cohort meets on Thursdays from 5:00PM to 8:30PM at the ISC in Suwanee.
This week we will meet in the Cafeteria. Please be sure to bring your laptops.
This week we will meet in the Cafeteria. Please be sure to bring your laptops.
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