Multi-Modal Play - Creating Original Thinkers & Fluent Readers and Writers
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.
Materials
PowerPoint Presentation
Handouts (presentation and sample lesson plans)
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.
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