Behind any educator is a teaching philosophy that is instrumental to who that person is as an educator. As a teacher, I want to educate in a way that is effective for my students, and at the same time make personal connections with them. I aspire to have high test scores, but also build a …
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Ryan and Jason’s Lesson Plan
5 Regions of Georgia Lesson (Click below to download lesson)
Week 10- Pop Culture/Digital Tool
1. What did you learn about pop culture/digital tools in general or pop culture/digital tools in classrooms that you do not know before? Something that really stood out to me in regards to pop culture/digital tools was from the reading on “Wiki Literature Circles: Creating Digital Learning Communities” and what stood out was the how …
Week 9- Collaborative Learning
1. Summarize the article you chose to read in 50 words (no more, no less). -The article I chose to read was the “I Hate Group Work!” and it was centered around group work and how to get kids to enjoy it more. It starts off by saying working in groups is an important skill …
Multimodal Teaching Narrative Project
For my project I decided to do a podcast. Below is the link to listen to my podcast. https://ryangreene.podbean.com/
Week 7- Acting to Learn
Please do a free-write about your initial thoughts about Theater of the Oppressed and how it could be used in the classroom. After watching the short clip and Ted Talk on the Theater of the oppressed I found myself thinking, wow that might be a lot of fun to do with a bunch of middle …
Week 6- Writing to Learn
1. After the class activities and the readings, how did your perception of the teaching of writing change? For me writing has always been something that’s been exclusive to ELA classes and certain aspects of social studies. Even in those classes it’s limited and only fits certain topics and task, my original look on writing …
Week 5- Reading and Writing to Learn
How did the readings challenge you to think about writing in different content areas? For me, I always thought of writing as strictly for language and social studies. After the reading it’s very evident that writing is applicable and beneficial for all content areas. In the reading it talked about writing as more than taking …
Week 4- Reading to Learn
When you were in secondary school, how did reading take place in your learning? When I was in secondary school we participated in project based learning and it dominated most of our time. I remember a lot of our reading came from huge packets that consisted of information related to a particular project. To know …
Week 3 Critical Reflection – Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
1. How do you envision culturally relevant pedagogies in your future classroom(s)? Please provide some specific examples. As a future social studies and language arts teacher I believe it’s very important for culturally relevant pedagogies to be a driving factor in the classroom. Implementing culturally relevant pedagogies is crucial for all student’s success in the …
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