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This blog has been set up to facilitate discussion among the participants in the March session of the Active Literacy Across the Curriculum in the Lakeville Area School District. Each blog is a discussion question for the group. Please respond with your reflections, as well as comments about others reflections.
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The one important idea I think we should discuss is how to create interdiscipline activities to reinforce the concept of all teachers acting as language teachers. You learn by applying basic concepts in actual situations. If those activities can represent actual activities that our students use now or will use in the future, then there is a greater likelihood that the students will do they activity, learn from the activity, and remember the concept we are trying to teach.
I totally agree with the comment about interdisciplinary...A big concept I have been thinking about a lot lately is that each site needs to really be operating as a learning community. Not the PLC-like groups that are popping up--the groups in our district calling themselves PLCs are really just department-specific groups meeting to get tasks done (which isn't truly a PLC). We need to find ways to get sites to operate as a true learning community that focuses (together as a staff) on improving a specific aspect of student achievement...until we can do that we will have pockets of people working in isolation as we've always had!
I agree with tlcguy. In the business world their are not English problems, Math problems, or Science problems. There are just problems that you need to use a combination of English, Math, Science, Social Science, etc. to solve. We should modify our curriculum to teach students to solve the types of problems they may see in their careers.
Well written article.
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