Author: Jim Jordan
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Student Trauma, Divorce
The setting: The context of the following scenario that will be discussed is as if it were a real situation. I will first name the incident and describe a broader scope of the situation than what I will share later. I want to be sure to represent that the actions I lay out are not…
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Mindframes and Mindfulness
For the purposes of this task, I called on a teacher-friend who I worked adjacent to many years ago in the nation of South Korea where we were both employed by the public school system in different schools but interacted socially. Her name is Redacted, and she is a teacher in Colorado teaching young learners…
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Horace Mann, to today
The following post is really a collection of works, four in total, that represent a historical inquiry of the impact of Horace Mann, followed by an observation of three video segments. They are presented below, beginning with the historical reflection, which could stand alone, but was built in tandem with these other pages, so I…
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Reading Assessment
(This article was written in response to a video that is not publicly available. It stands, alone, as a reflection on differentiation.) Considering the two students, Sofia and Matteo, I’m given to noticing the differences and similarities between them, for how they relate. Sofia is a speaker of English as her native language and…
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Response to Intervention and Vocabulary
The Response to Intervention (RTI) process is one that has many facets. In 2015 (after the creation of this course) RTI was integrated through the federal enactment of the Every Student Succeeds Act into what is now known as Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) with the addition of social/emotional concerns. Certainly, there is plenty of…
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Writing Across Disciplines
The impact of teaching with inquiry leads to the creation of mindful and critical thinkers through the habituation of good practices. The following three paragraphs support my thinking on this. Reflecting on the effect of inquiry-based teaching methods in my discipline (teaching the language of English to students of various language abilities through middle and…
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Reading Comprehension, Disciplinary Literacy
The value of Disciplinary Literacy is elemental to higher education. That is to say, the language of specialties within the broader reaches of the civilizational design that we have in modern times requires focused attention that reaches beyond normative conversation for regular day-to-day activities. To isolate this, the delineation of Disciplinary Literacy (DL) and…
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Lesson Plan: Persuasive Writing
Given the challenge of making a statement about something they feel strongly about in a newspaper’s opinion page, students will be able to write arguments that support claims they have, including considered counterclaims and connective reasoning, to the effect that they can create a concluding, logical statement in a complete and formal way. This should…
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Tenth Grade Lesson Plan: Betty Friedan’s “A Woman’s Civil Right” ~ Rhetorical Literary Devices
Given the speech by Betty Friedan she gave to celebrate the success of Row v. Wade, in which she spoke of the position of women and men in America and how America needed to look forward, students will do research that shows a competency that is demonstrable through a metric of finding at least four…
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Assessing Grammar
Teaching Conventions and Mechanics Assessing Grammar Assessments for grammar used in a classroom of English Language Arts (ELA) at the secondary level should, in my opinion, be mostly formative (FA), with fewer summative assessments (SA) so that students can be conceptually fed more than they are taxed with producing and so they are given as…