Today's lesson was a close reading of the Declaration of Sentiments to identify the goals for start of the women's movement & look at the issues facing women (white, heterosexual, middle-class, able-bodied, cisgendered female citizens). Agenda
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Today, students created a timeline. In the past, I've provided students with excerpts about the exact events I want them to use and they summarize the most important parts. After talking about self-regulation at Rhonda Bondie's PD, I wanted to get the students to have even more of a hand in determining what events are the most important. I quickly Googled 2 timelines of women's history, which is what my students would probably do if asked to find a timeline on their own. (I used these: 1 & 2 - I copied them into word documents, posted below). They then created posters for each of the most important events and put them in chronological order as a class. Agenda
§ GROUP 2: 1903-1936 (2 pgs + 1st event on DigHistory, 1 pg of infoplease) = 3 pages § GROUP 3: 1955-1976 (p. 6 & half of pg. 7 on DigHistory, pgs. 3-4 & 1st 2 events of p. 5 on infoplease) = 3.75 pages § GROUP 4: 1978-Today (most of pg. 5, 6 on DigHistory, last 3 events on pg. 7 of infoplease) = 2.25 pages
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The first two lessons of this unit introduced students to feminist activist strategies used during the 1950's and 1960's. We watched episode 1 of MAKERS, a great PBS series on the women's movement. At the start of Day 1, we had to distribute some technological log-in information, so this took up the first half of Day 1. Agenda - Day 1
Agenda - Day 2
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In the last Rhonda Bondie PD I attended, we talked about 2 big things: 1) problem-solving Think-Talk-Open Exchange 2) self-regulation & student motivation. Below are some ideas I want to try in my classroom.
Group Discussions: Solutions to Problems & More Applications
Motivation & Self-Regulation
What did you like?
What would you change?
What was your biggest takeaway?
Moving forward, we'll be thinking about solutions (activist strategies) to these problems. What do you think we should do to solve your gendered issue?
This year, Chancellor of NYC schools, Carmen Fariña, started an initiative in which schools share best practices with one another called Learning Partners. This week, all of the participating schools attended a "share fair" to showcase what new ideas we have implemented in our schools as a result of visiting our partner schools. After speaking with other schools at this fair, I came away with a few ideas that could be implemented in my classroom, in my school, or that may be useful to other teachers or schools. I've listed them below. School-Wide Initiatives
Classroom Ideas
Our school is getting iPads for every student, which will allow technology to make up for the fact I cannot clone myself during one-on-one or small group skill-building instruction. Here's a few sites I recently tried out and found they might be useful for working on decoding (reading) and encoding (spelling) skills.
Obama recorded a message that was played during the Grammy's last night, which relates to the topics of gendered violence my students have been studying. Here it is!
As students are finishing up their lesson plans and beginning to teach this week, I am nervous about the outcome. Most students have been thoughtful in the layout of their lesson. Students' activities sounds engaging and the lessons seem feasible. Some students have even gone above the suggested powerpoint or station activity and are making their own videos. Despite all of this, I'm still concerned with the quality of information students will be disseminating to their peers. It's imperative the information is conveyed through a feminist lens and with little oversight on my part, there is a risk students will present information that lacks a feminist perspective. Thoughts for Change
What is service learning?
For my class, I want to have an "Activist Afternoon," where I invite experts in activism in to talk to my students & engage them in conversation about activist methods. *This will be BEFORE they begin their research-based service learning projects.
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