Tag: globalvoices
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Love Stories Around the World
Some years ago, I was working on a Unit about Love. First, my students read about how I met my husband to give the lesson a personal touch.http://top21.blogspot.com.br/2006/06/how-we-met-each-other-we-were-from.html They listened to a story of how a teacher met her husband. Then, they wrote about their own love stories. I realized the lesson plan could be…
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DESIGN Series – Uniqueness and Beauty in a Lesson Plan
Teachers are generally so overwhelmed by the load of information they have to deal with, be it pedagogical or bureaucratic, papers, tests, lesson planning that we tend just to go with the flow using the repertoire we already have to make things more time-efficient. In this bulldozing routine, common place is what our lessons become.…