…category and activates student thinking. Here is another example of how to introduce “Cultural Values.” By taking a few minutes to introduce categories, content vocabulary is clarified and students grasp…
…same time, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month sometimes foregrounds only dominant East Asian experiences, voices, and identities. Pre-packaged curriculum and widely available online resources sometimes highlight aspects of…
…social aspects of the Convention. I don’t drink, so I don’t really fit in with the after-hours hotel bar crowd, and I don’t usually last long at social mixer events….
This blog post was written by NCTE member Aspen Mock. Oral tradition and storytelling were just a normal part of spending my summers at my grandparents’ home. My grandfather…
…from http://mc-14193-39844713.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com/resource/grade-2-listening-learning-domain-11-anthology-immigration National Center for Educational Statistics. (2016). Table 203.50: Enrollment and percentage distribution of enrollment in public elementary and secondary schools, by race/ethnicity and region. Retrieved from https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_203.50.asp Cooperative…
…experience. (ASP Findings 1 and 2; Standards for the Assessment of Reading and Writing Standard 2) Teachers are seen as co-constructors of knowledge, not as passive recipients of knowledge, i.e.,…
…that they are not alone . . . that there is someone, somewhere who understands their life in some aspect and has written a book about it. When we look…
…on the living arrangements of an important family member. This was an important aspect relating to the tensions central to the book. In Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale…
…rewarding aspects to being on the Orbis Pictus Award Committee has been the opportunity to connect and collaborate with the other committee members. Over the course of the year, through…
…and Kootenai Tribe (2005) is most likely categorized as “Salish Indians—Folklore.” In fact, both are religious stories explaining some aspect of how the world was created. In contrast, Peter Spier’s…
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