Saturday, July 13, 2013

Week 3 response to prompt




My summer job is teaching High School foreign exchange students at a local university. We have students from Italy, Spain,France, China and Turkey. While we have a lesson and idea sharing platform, it is not a multiple user tool. It is a lot of one way street of ideas with one or two comments below the posts or in emails. 

We all have different expertise and perspectives. For example the teacher next to me taught in Chine for 2 years, I taught in France and some others work with New Jersey's large Hispanic populations. 

It would be very interesting to post these plans in an interactive way where we could add suggestions to differentiate the various groups. For example pronunciation issues, words that resemble curses in each language. I was told not to use the word shabby with my Chinese kids- not sure what it means but apparently its not a good word choice. 

This would allow us to better serve our students and develop our skills in different areas. 
I just may initiate it if the director approves. We would need one central coordinator I think just to organize and sort through the info. The more seasoned teachers may not be terribly interested in sharing because they may think they know enough already. I think it may be fun. 

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