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NOVEMBER 17, 2023
Going from zero to hero Just days before our fall semester started, I learned that I’d been assigned mythology—a subject I’d not taught before and one without a syllabus. To begin, I wrote a thorough prompt, telling it: “You’re a high school English teacher who wants to teach an inquiry-based mythology class with self-directed learning.
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SEPTEMBER 10, 2017
The Syllabus Gets a Facelift. If we think about learning as a journey that gets compartmentalized in formal education, then the first experience for middle and high school students is often the syllabus. In many ways, the traditional syllabus places restrictions on when, what and how students will learn.
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JULY 31, 2024
Creating Mirrors and Windows In my English classroom, I strive to offer texts that serve as both mirrors and windows for my students, empowering them to see their own lives reflected in the narratives we read and to gain insights into the experiences of others. Then, I ask students the following questions: Who writes the stories?
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NOVEMBER 23, 2022
But this year, with the arrival of the World Cup, I came prepared, and my students knew it when they saw our sports journalism unit built into the syllabus on the first day. Still, by and large, I’m an extreme disappointment to my student-athletes and sports fans alike. Are these days blocked off for the World Cup?!” they exclaimed.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
This year, though, San Diego English teacher Jen Roberts challenged herself to turn a fellow teacher’s creation into a collaborative, sharable template. “I I think the phenomena of the infographic syllabus has been an effort by many teachers to make that document more accessible, more real,” she explains. “I
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OCTOBER 27, 2020
My syllabus had a no-technology policy and it wasn’t perfect, but it helped. I’m not a trained therapist and my university certainly has not provided tools with which to handle my own emotions, let alone the emotions of 17 or 18 year olds in freshman English. I performed then too.
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NOVEMBER 22, 2017
Because what they note is, if you’re in a safe environment with a safe class, they would rather use English, because they’re trying to practice their English and become proficient in English.” In the end she builds the final syllabus based on their suggestions.
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