Hello Readers.
As young or inexperienced teachers, it's nice to have examples of what good/creative teaching looks like. Utilizing resources such as this chapter helps aspiring teachers create an environment that helps students succeed. There's discussion in this chapter to, "...empower individuals and collectives as agents of social change" (Duncan-Andrade). To me, this is not only attracting students to be the best they can be inside the classroom, but also for the teachers who are learning alongside their students. This chapter discusses different alternatives to teaching English that will attract all levels of understanding. By pairing a movie with a novel, it allows for students to create emotion and understanding as they pair their life with the lessons and teachings in the novel. Rather than reading alone and then group reflection, this style allows a community inside the classroom to create conversations that jump-start understanding on a different level. By connecting topics of concern in a novel to the students' lives, it allows for greater success within the lesson plan. I personally enjoyed this idea because it allows for the students to connect in their own way. This takes out any anxiety of reading, and supplies the students with a new way to learn topics of history within a novel. Although this idea is good, I felt that the hip-hop poetry unit-plan was amazing! How clever! Since the music industry is just as interesting as social media for students, why not teach them something while using songs that are popular at the time. The authors provide a unit plan for readers that incorporates hip-hop with poetry to allow for a "dry" subject to become new and interesting to students who learn through music. By treating a subject like this, the teacher is allowing for the classroom environment to become fun and allow for students to take control of their own learning. This idea is something that I wished was around when I was learning poetry! Sounds fun!
Cheers.
Ryan
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