Blog #6 Curriculum Portfolio/Planning Project (CPP)

Curriculum Portfolio/Planning Project (CPP)

Share your thoughts, your reactions to doing each step of the CPP, the value in doing this assignment, and what you learned from it. Be as specific as you can. 

Post by Wednesday, July 8^th and respond by Friday, July 10^th 

Blog #5 Content Text Set Reflection

Blog #5 Content Text Set Wrap-up. How did your text set collection go? What do you think went especially well? How did your lessons go? What would you change now that you've completed it all? How do you think this has helped you view the idea of texts in various content areas? Share any and all! Post by Thursday, July 2nd (since I'm late putting it up here!) and respond by Friday July 3^rd.

Blog #4: Infographics

In the wave of the new Common Core Standards, informational writing is forefront in writing curriculum in the core courses (Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts). Infographics are a means for teachers to achieve greater visual appeal for students to grasp informational writing. More importantly, creating infographics fosters critical thinking, as well as a deeper-level synthesis. Share the infographics you found for math and science (link your pictures and tell what they are). Now share here how you think you could use infographics in your future classroom (using them as a model, as a simple informational text to read, as a method of response to a reading, as a tool for them to create for any activity, etc.). Be innovative and try to think how you could make it a critical thinking application in YOUR content area.  Post by Sunday, June 14^th and respond by Tuesday, June 16^th.

Blog #3 Picture Book Lesson

What picture book did you choose? What lesson did you create for it? After doing this activity, what do you see as the value in completing this assignment AND using picture books in any classroom (at any age)? How do you feel about your lesson? What did you struggle with? Be specific! Post by Thursday, June 11^th and respond to each other by Sunday, June 14^th.

Blog #2 Music in the Classroom

After watching the three videos (Same Love by Macklemore, Truly Brave mash-up by Bareilles/Lauper, and People Like Us by Clarkson), I want you to pose at least two questions for the group about what you heard and saw, and I want you to come up with one lesson idea (written up in purely idea format; i.e. I could teach a lesson on making connections by having the students list personal connections they have to some lyric in one of the songs – you can get a little more specific and for younger kids, you’d provide a much stricter guideline). Examples of questions: How could you use this/these song(s) in your class/content area – target it to a specific content area. Your goal: What deeper messages are at play in the songs and how could you use this to get kids to think/write/react? When might you use one or all of these songs in your classroom? Why would you use one or all of these songs in your classroom? Be specific and answer ALL questions!

Post by Wednesday, June 3rd at midnight; respond to each classmate by Saturday at midnight. 

Blog #1 Articles

After reading the three articles (1. What Is Content Reading, 2. How Important is Teaching Literacy in All Content Areas, and 3. Teaching Reading and Writing in Content Areas), list 2-3 things you learned from EACH article. Add commentary about at least 2 ways the information from EACH article can help you teach cross-content materials in your content area. 

Post by Thursday, June 4 and respond to each classmate by Sunday at 6:00 p.m. Your responses should be thoughtful, deep-thinking comments, not just "I agree..." If you choose to start with "I agree" state what you agree with and why.