Audience is Everything: Teaching our Parents

the ASK: I know that audience is everything when comes to writing or creating, so I was curious about how to create an accessible, authentic audience for students’ hubris extended definitions. 

the TRY: Ask students to consider not just explaining hubris, but teach it to a parent or other adult mentor through their Shadow Puppet. Then, use a Google Form to have the adult readers provide feedback in a seamless way that I could then pass on to the students.

the LEARN: One of my favorite parts of this was watching how students invited their adult readers to participate and see how the feedback resonated with the kids when it came from someone outside the school.

Screen-Shot-2015-10-29-at-6.56.46-PM_web

Enjoy!

The Two-Cents Discussion

The Two-Cents Discussion

I call it the “Two Cents Worth” discussion and I really like to use it when I need to encourage everyone to use their voices. The concept is pretty easy: we put our chairs in a circle, a basket in the middle of it and everyone gets two pennies. When they contribute to...

read more