[EnglishLanguage 316] Re: "Irish Potato Famine" with Primary SourcesAndrea Wilder andreawilder at comcast.netMon Mar 20 16:59:21 EST 2006
Colleagues-- I've got a question which I am chewing away on, maybe you can help. Who controls your curriculum? You? Students? Textbooks? Online resources or texts? I have spent a long time learning about reading and different programs, but I have never really focused on curriculum. When I was a schoolteacher I taught my own curriculum, following certain broad outlines. No textbooks. The "performance framework" all teachers measured the curriculum against reflected the best of what I would call Renaissance learning--deeply humanistic, We made our own curricula. But with adults, it's different, isn't it? Adult subjects for adults? I would really appreciate your thoughts on this topic. Andrea On Mar 20, 2006, at 8:13 AM, Wheeler, Tamela wrote: > Actually, my students wrote essays on the potato famine last week after > reading an article on it. Good subject. > > Tamela Wheeler, ESOL, Pellissippi State Technical Community College > > -----Original Message----- > From: englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov > [mailto:englishlanguage-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Carole Bos > Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 2:09 AM > To: englishlanguage at nifl.gov; familyliteracy at nifl.gov > Subject: [EnglishLanguage 307] "Irish Potato Famine" with Primary > Sources > > > Because today is St. Patrick's Day, educators and their students may be > thinking about Irish history. One of Ireland's pivotal events was the > loss of its potato crop in the mid-nineteenth century. To this day, > Ireland has not recovered from the loss of its people - through > immigration and death - caused by the "potato famine." Students can > learn what happened with primary sources from the Irish National > Archives and from contemporary drawings/newspapers. > http://www.awesomestories.com/disasters/great_hunger/ > great_hunger_ch1.ht > m > > The website http://www.awesomestories.com/ is free for all educators, > schools and libraries. Simply request an academic membership with this > sign-up form. http://www.awesomestories.com/group_signup.php > > Carole Bos > Grand Valley State University > Dean's Advisory Board > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > National Institute for Literacy > Adult English Language Learners mailing list > EnglishLanguage at nifl.gov > To unsubscribe or change your subscription settings, please go to > http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/englishlanguage > ---------------------------------------------------- > National Institute for Literacy > Adult English Language Learners mailing list > EnglishLanguage at nifl.gov > To unsubscribe or change your subscription settings, please go to > http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/englishlanguage >
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