As I reflect over my week I realize even more how important it is to have a more solid health topics to discuss with my students. Death seems to be surrounding us these past few weeks and many related to tragedies due to poor decisions/choices. I as a teacher, need to give them more skills and practice on how to become healthy individuals. So thus this lesson I am planning is so fitting for me and my community.
I also feel blessed to have such wonderful co-workers who have been so sharing in their teaching styles and resources. It has opened my eyes to a whole new world and I am enjoying my journey. I have hit a few road blocks trying to get local historians to share their knowledge, but am hopeful that it is just the busy schedules that can come together for this project/lesson.
Anna, thank you for helping me understand how to be a better teacher and leading me on this journey, Shawn for sharing your resources and ideas and Lesley for spotting my work on my desk and asking about it then sharing your thoughts over Tribal PIR days. You are right! This Circle of Life/Medicine Wheel could so relate to our strategic plan for our school. It would be not only comprehensive, but a great visual that all could understand.
Finally as this class winds down, my learning will be on going. I will continue to use this blog as a holding place for my ideas and strategies.
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Week 7 Blog
Week 7 Blog
Article: Classroom Assessment: Minute by Minute, Day by Day
In this article it talks about how to get Students to have ownership in their learning. Before reading this I questioned how many ways do I use. Well not as many as I would like that is for sure. I do use the ABCD cards in my driver education classes all the time as well as group lessons for discussions and entry tasks for many of my classes. These entry and exit are ways that I use to gauge my discussions and direction I need to take the class.
One suggestion is to have peers evaluate each others work. They stated it is too hard to evaluate your own using the rubric, so engage students to review each others work and relate to it to the rubric and give feed back as peer assessment. This is one technique I am going to incorporate in new lesson plans.
Another technique I really like is the RED and GREEN sheets for understanding. This can help out a lot. Maybe even the write on boards too.
Article: Classroom Assessment: Minute by Minute, Day by Day
In this article it talks about how to get Students to have ownership in their learning. Before reading this I questioned how many ways do I use. Well not as many as I would like that is for sure. I do use the ABCD cards in my driver education classes all the time as well as group lessons for discussions and entry tasks for many of my classes. These entry and exit are ways that I use to gauge my discussions and direction I need to take the class.
One suggestion is to have peers evaluate each others work. They stated it is too hard to evaluate your own using the rubric, so engage students to review each others work and relate to it to the rubric and give feed back as peer assessment. This is one technique I am going to incorporate in new lesson plans.
Another technique I really like is the RED and GREEN sheets for understanding. This can help out a lot. Maybe even the write on boards too.
Week 6 Blog
I enjoyed this book very much more on a personal level than on one that I would use for school. Chapter 1 which refers to spiritual reference and jobs of the woman vs. the men is what I would refer to as my background knowledge when doing my lesson plan. I was so hopeful to find the Salish Medicine Wheel in this book as well. I have searched for it online and in some other books, but I know just from oral descriptions that I am not finding the one I would like for our area. The ones on line for the Salish people are the coastal clans and they pray clockwise; the direction of the water flow. I am pretty sure from what I have learned of my community is that we pray counter clock wise in the direction of water flow for our area. If any one has any advise they would like to share, I would be so grateful as this is the focus of my lesson plan.
On a personal note, reading and absorbing the photos in this book reminded me of my grandfather's stories. The Fort Peck Dam days were during his early adult and he was a barber who was also the first aid station. The blood letting, the bodily repairs were up to him and his partners as doctors were so scares. He talked of many lives lost in the horrific accidents. We would take Sunday drives around the lake when I was a child. He would stop the car and tell a story or we would have a picnic in those areas on Fathers Day that meant so much to him. He always got to choose where we went on that large area and rarley in his younger days was it the same area.
My other Grandfather would also tell me stories of building roads there. If my memeory serves me right it was in the 1940s. He would have to move cemeteries to a new location in order to build roads. These stories were not always remembered fondly, but it did give me a perspective of how life must of been in the days of the people who died.
Most of all it makes me wonder if tribal employment was also a preference here too as stated in this book about Kerr Dam. It would be interesting to research that end of the history too about Fort Peck Dam.
I enjoyed this book very much more on a personal level than on one that I would use for school. Chapter 1 which refers to spiritual reference and jobs of the woman vs. the men is what I would refer to as my background knowledge when doing my lesson plan. I was so hopeful to find the Salish Medicine Wheel in this book as well. I have searched for it online and in some other books, but I know just from oral descriptions that I am not finding the one I would like for our area. The ones on line for the Salish people are the coastal clans and they pray clockwise; the direction of the water flow. I am pretty sure from what I have learned of my community is that we pray counter clock wise in the direction of water flow for our area. If any one has any advise they would like to share, I would be so grateful as this is the focus of my lesson plan.
On a personal note, reading and absorbing the photos in this book reminded me of my grandfather's stories. The Fort Peck Dam days were during his early adult and he was a barber who was also the first aid station. The blood letting, the bodily repairs were up to him and his partners as doctors were so scares. He talked of many lives lost in the horrific accidents. We would take Sunday drives around the lake when I was a child. He would stop the car and tell a story or we would have a picnic in those areas on Fathers Day that meant so much to him. He always got to choose where we went on that large area and rarley in his younger days was it the same area.
My other Grandfather would also tell me stories of building roads there. If my memeory serves me right it was in the 1940s. He would have to move cemeteries to a new location in order to build roads. These stories were not always remembered fondly, but it did give me a perspective of how life must of been in the days of the people who died.
Most of all it makes me wonder if tribal employment was also a preference here too as stated in this book about Kerr Dam. It would be interesting to research that end of the history too about Fort Peck Dam.
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