Grand Challenges in Education

Writing to Oral Comm./Reading in A Long Walk to Water Lesson.

A two-part activity to do with the A Long Walk to Water book (ALWtW) that starts with written and transitions to reading and oral communication. The first part would involve the routine of text impression, taking key words…

Fostering Understanding in the Curriculum

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Before taking education classes, I had a bad habit of bad mouthing my high school teachers for the way they chose to teach. For example, I had one teacher who did group work every day. Despite still thinking…

What’s in a Speech

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Eloquence is a substantial part of English. People read Sylvia Plath or C.S. Lewis, and they strive to write like them. So, how do people incorporate that eloquence into their own writing? Big words, lots of cliché metaphors, and sentences that…

Student Creativity

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Do you remember when you were young, and the desire to be lazy and silly ruled your life? Not in a “I’m sitting on the couch all day” kind of way, but in the “I’m playing over here and I need water, but my cup is all the way over there” kind of…

Religion and Student Understanding

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Despite the United States being a secular nation, public schools tend to promote Christianity over other belief systems. In locker rooms, people pray together as a team, and when religious tropes are discussed within…

Electricity and the Classroom

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In my education classes, I have found that one idea that constantly pops up is: How do I teach students about something without creating a project that belittles it? This idea came up again when I was reading the article…

How the News Can Help Us Understand the Essential Understanding in Indian Education for All Curriculum

Having lived in Montana most of my life, I also spent most of my life having some sort of Native American education being implemented in my classes. In…

Connecting to the Universe and Ourselves

How the Grand Challenges Connect to ELA classrooms

If you have read Bram Stoker’s Dracula, you know it is a novel rich in historical references and scientific discovery. Stoker’s characters ride…

Multiple Viewpoints

Analyzing Multiple Medium Posts

Recently, I had a conversation with my mom where I revealed that in high school, I lied during an interview because I knew my real opinions could hinder my chances of receiving the honor I was applying to receive…