Dear colleagues,
Week 6 is here!
CIVICS
The theme for our curriculum this week is Civics. In addition to our curriculum material, there are so many resources out there for you, we thought we would share a few here:
USCIS Citizenship Resource Center: A site for both teachers and students, centering on the 100 Questions for the test.
Ventures Civics Curriculum: An entire lesson set by Ventures.
Ventures Citizenship Worksheets: The Ventures Teacher's Resource Room has worksheets all ready to go.
Ventures Arcade: Citizenship: Ventures Arcade section for students to practice questions and test their knowledge.
Constitution Resources: Download a PDF of the Constitution. Other great resources for teaching on this page as well.
ELCivics.com- Many of you probably already know about this great page.
School House Rock- Lyrics- Many of you can find School House Rock videos on YouTube. This website gives you the lyrics to each video.
iCivics.org: was recommended by our colleague Vanessa Ford-Williams from Wakefield. Thanks Vanessa!
This one's a real gem:
John Wayne saying the Pledge of Allegiance
John Wayne
We hope you find these links edifying!
Last but not least:
Mid-Manhattan and Staten Island teacher Ruby Taylor McBride shared a great video:
The branches of government explained in a rap song with titles and online activities! Yo!
To accommodate for your class level, you can adjust the video speed for your students (top left corner: original, slower, slowest).PLUS: Quick online video review, Interactive lyrics, Fill in the blanks and a Quiz!
Thanks, Ruby!
We created a PDF document and word version with 24 stills from the video.
To preview and print (PDF) or download, edit/customize for your class and print (word), go to the civics wiki: alc-civics.wikispaces.com/Government
The print version can be used in addition to the video or as an example of the
"Flipped Classroom" (more about the Flipped Classroom below):
You could discuss the video content in class and ask students to watch the video and do or re-do the exercises at home, as often as they need to in order to understand it.
This way, students are empowered to schedule their own learning and improve computer skills: If you show the website and how to access and do the activities in class, even students with limited digital literacy skills can access it on their home computers (or, if they don't have a home computer, on their smart phones - or a library computer :)
What is the Flipped Classroom?
The Flipped Classroom concept has been around in teaching for a few years now.
THE FLIPPED CLASSROOM
Below are highlights from an article from net.educause.edu
Click HERE to read the complete article:
1. What is it?
The
flipped classroom is a pedagogical model in which the typical lecture and
homework elements of a course are reversed. (... read more in the article)
2. How does it work?
There
is no single model for the flipped classroom—the term
is
widely used to describe almost any class structure that provides
prerecorded
lectures followed by in-class exercises.
3. Who’s doing it?
A
growing number of higher education individual faculty
have
begun using the flipped model in their courses.
4. Why is it significant?
Devoting
class time to application of concepts might give instructors a better
opportunity
to detect errors in thinking, particularly those that are
widespread in a class. (... read more in the article)
5. What are the downsides?
The
flipped classroom is an easy model to get wrong. Although
the idea is straightforward, an effective flip requires careful
preparation. (... read more in the article)
6. Where is it going?
As
the flipped class becomes more popular, new tools may emerge
to support the out-of-class portion of the curriculum. In particular,
the ongoing development of powerful mobile devices will
put a wider range of rich, educational resources into the hands
of
students, at times and places that are most convenient for them.
7. What are the implications for teaching
and learning?
The
flipped model puts more of the responsibility for learning on the shoulders
of students while giving them greater impetus to experiment. (... read more in the article)
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Educator Keith Hughes explains his vision of the Flipped Classroom in the video above. He also explains how teachers can make a video of themselves explaining a teaching point in iMovie,
so their students can watch it outside of class and watch again, and again...
so their students can watch it outside of class and watch again, and again...
You'll find a lot of other articles and videos if you google "flipped classroom".
Here's one more:
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A disruptive revolution in pedagogy, or yet another educational fad?
Don't look now, but classrooms everywhere are turning on their heads.
 If you are in college, I don’t mean to alarm you—but you are probably being experimented on. Stop checking for both of your kidneys; it’s not that kind of experiment. But chances are, one or more of you courses is currently being administered upside down, or “flipped.” Everything is backward: The lecture is assigned as homework! The “homework” is completed in class! The sun revolves around the Earth, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria...
Click HERE to read more (from slate.com)
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Thanks for the comments and feedback you submitted last week!
UPCOMING EVENTS
Harlem Adult Education Conference - Fall 2015
"Diverse Learners, Diverse Goals"
Friday, November 6, 2015
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Hosted by The City College of New York --
Continuing and Professional Studies
Shepard Hall - 160 Convent Avenue
Continuing and Professional Studies
Shepard Hall - 160 Convent Avenue
Only 50 seats remain. Register today to reserve your spot: bitly.com/harlemadulted_fall15
Keynote Speaker: Anthony Watson
Anthony Watson is the Executive Director of the Borough of Manhattan Community College's Manhattan Educational Opportunity Center, located on 125th Street at the Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building. Previously, Watson served as vice president of programs and human services with Harlem-based Abyssinian Development Corporation (ADC). While at ADC, Watson led development efforts that raised over $6 million for the organization's workforce development program. As part of ADC's senior management team, Watson also led community outreach efforts for ADC's human services division. His efforts resulted in strategies that aligned comprehensive services for 1,500 constituents in Harlem and throughout New York City. Watson holds a master's degree in social work from Hunter College as well as a training certification in Seminar in Field Instruction.
Conference Overview
- Geared toward Harlem-based adult-education instructors, learners, administrators, and researchers.
- Peer-to-peer, inquiry-based workshops on key topics in the field, including:
- Adult Literacy/Adult Basic Education
- English for Speakers of Other Languages
- Test Assessing Secondary Completion and the Common Core
- College and Career Readiness
- Citizenship/Civic Preparation
- Digital Literacy
In Spring 2014, Total Equity Now and our adult-education partners--The City College of New York - Continuing and Professional Studies, Harlem YMCA Literacy Zone, and New York Public Library - Upper Manhattan Adult Learning Centers--launched the Harlem Adult Education Conference, a community-centered, inquiry-based opportunity for instructors, learners, researchers, and program administrators to build meaningful, cross-program relationships through peer-to-peer exchanges of instructional strategies and tools, research, and powerful stories.
The theme of our fall conference, "Diverse Learners, Diverse Goals," acknowledges the wide range of personal, community, societal purposes served by adult education in Harlem, as well as the complexity of juggling those aims amidst rapid changes in the field of adult learning.
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