University of California, Irvine. 24 October 2009.
from CAGE to SAGE: Sagacity: Strategies for Thriving via Meta-cognition.
How do your students act and perform when the answers to problems and questions are not immediately
known? Moreover, are they able to abound in real-life problem-solving
outside of the controlled environment that is the classroom?
The goals of Art Costa’s Habits of Mind are “enhancing the ways students produce knowledge rather than how they merely reproduce it…not
only having information but also knowing how to act on it.” Find out
what “behaviors” help students become effective and efficient thinkers
and peak performers. This session will draw upon and extend Dr. Sandra
Kaplan's Scholarliness while utilizing Art Costa's Habits of Mind in
order to enable students to consistently and authentically thrive in
all walks of life—in and outside of the classroom.
the PIRATE in all of Us: the HERO'S JOURNEY ARCHETYPE
What do Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lois Lowry’s The Giver, C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Homer’s The Odyssey all have in common? All have heroes that partake in a journey of significant change, that is, the “hero’s journey”. All
stories have heroes that are truly profound for our students
today—profound when enabling students to explore the archetype of the
hero in literature and in their own lives.
Discover
how to facilitate this literary, personal, and collaborative
exploration on the hero’s journey archetype enhanced with the elements
of depth (patterns, big ideas, ethics) and the parallels content
imperative that culminates with a photo essay using iPhoto. This
session will also cover how to take Response to Literature essays and
assignments to another deeper and meaningful level through the literary
analysis of archetypal criticism—differentiated for upper elementary
and middle school students.
POTENT POTENTIAL POETRY: POETRY CIRCLES
The true impact of poetry is an uncommon reality in the language arts classroom where prose has dominance. To complicate matters, helping students navigate through analysis of poetry can be like Jack Sparrow in a Pirates of the Caribbean adventure: exhilarating and treacherous at the same time.
Poetry’s truest potential, that which challenges the reader to authentic
heights in language, thought, and creativity, can become a reality in
the classroom through a modified version of literature circles. Utilizing
content imperatives along with details, rules, big ideas, patterns, and
trends, find out how students and teachers can explicate, connect, and
respond to poetry.
MAY-JUNE 2009
COMING SOON... (to a future workshop & web page): Here's what my students and I are currently exploring and working on:
The Hero's Journey Archetype: a personal and collaborative exploration on the monomyth enhanced with the elements of depth and complexity culminating with a photo essay using iPhoto.
Deborah Appleman's Critical Encounters in High School English: Teaching Literary Theory to Adolescents
Art Costa's Habits of Mind: Across the Curriculum--Practical and Creative Strategies for Teachers
Tony Dungy's Uncommon
FEBRUARY-MARCH 2009
COMING SOON... (to a future workshop & web page): Here's what my students and I are currently exploring and working on:
The Hero's Journey Archetype: a personal and collaborative exploration on the monomyth enhanced with the elements of depth and complexity
Plato's Cave Allegory: an exploration of archetypal symbols and situations utilizing content imperatives
S.I. Hayakawa's Ladder of Abstraction: utilization of Hayakawa's Abstraction Ladder for Writer's Workshop & Revision and for Deductive Reasoning
Commedia dell'Arte: drawing from "Whose Line is it Anyway," Comedy Sportz, and research, students investigate and develop comedy sketches or monologues
Art Costa's Habits of Mind: the 16 habits students need to not only start, but to endure AND finish rigorous assignments
Poetry & Literature Circles: analysis, collaboration, discussion culminating with a video poem
iCan (too...the Tiger Version): inspired by San Fernando Education Technology Team's (SFETT) documentaries and iCan film festival, students are preparing documentaries while reading the following literary works:
Sandra Cisneros' The House on Mango Street [9th grade]
The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley [[10th grade Pre-IB]
