Saba Rathore

Multi-Modal Play - Creating Original Thinkers & Fluent Readers and Writers

Description (Session #3: 1:45 - 2:45 pm)

This session will:

• • showcase how to create an atmosphere of play, flexibility, and community to help bridge the student's identity kit with classroom instruction

  • reveal how the fluidity of the lesson planning and differentiated instruction structure a multi-modal classroom

  • highlight the essence of the teaching methodology: a dialectical interplay between teacher/curriculum, student/curriculum, student/teacher, student/parents, teacher/parents, and teacher/school, local, and global community

  • conclude with two sample lesson plans that bridge the theoretical to the practical, illustrating how a multi-modal classroom creates original and innovative thinkers, readers, and writers.

Audience

The session is for educators of all levels who are interested in creating a classroom environment that channels original thought process, thereby creating fluent readers and writers who will hopefully develop a love for literacy. And even though the sample lesson plans are written for secondary school students, one can easily adapt the lessons to any age group, which will be discussed during the session.

Materials

• 1. PowerPoint Presentation

  2. Handouts (presentation and sample lesson plans)

Strand

Visual Literacy, Cultural Literacy, and Multiple Literacy

Analogy

On the seashore of endless worlds children meet.

The infinite sky is motionless overhead

and the restless water is boisterous.

On the seashore of endless worlds

the children meet with shouts and dances.

They build their houses with sand

and they play with empty shells.

With withered leaves they weave their boats

and smilingly float them on the vast deep.

Children have their play on the seashore of worlds.

~Rabindranath Tagore~

Biography

Saba Rathore is a graduate from The Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University (USA). She has a Master of Education in the English-language Arts and has taught 8th Grade English Language Arts Literacy in Monroe Township, New Jersey. Currently, she works as an Education Officer at ACRES (Animal Concerns Research & Education Society), a local charity in Singapore that delivers educational programs to both local and international school students about the importance of creation and our environment. She also works as a relief teacher at Canadian International School, UWCSEA (United World College of South East Asia), and Singapore American School with experience teaching students aged 3 – 15. Her interests include phenomenological writing about experiences in the classroom and sustained paradoxes and dynamics between student/teacher, student/student, student/home life, and teacher/home life.

Please see the Registration Program PDF output below

for basic information about this workshop.