Re-thinking learning for the 21st Century
Written by Vivienne Kraus
This year, I added another element to prepare for the Harkness-inspired discussions that we had in class. As a way to build vocabulary and fluency, the students’ homework was to record their response to a given question using Flipgrid (https://www.flipgrid.com/). For example : Quelle est la place de la technologie à l’école? Use at least 10 […]
Written by Vivienne Kraus
Faire d’un pierre deux coups. We have been working with design thinking at our school thanks to @Think_teach and of course here at Cohort 21. I felt pretty comfortable and enamored with the process, and had dabbled using it with my guinea pig class as a reflective assessment as learning tool. At a Round Square conference I […]
Written by Vivienne Kraus
…that of a teacher. And that of a French teacher trying to get her students to speak more in class! Thanks to Celeste Kirsh (@teach_tomorrow), I attempted to up the ante beyond “Talking Stick 2.0” (https://cohort21.com/viviennekraus/2015/11/21/talking-stick-2-0/). No longer was it just about using the plain popsicle sticks to determine the number of one’s contributions to […]
Written by Vivienne Kraus
My action plan My goal for this year was to provide more opportunities for my students to communicate orally in French in an authentic manner. I had heard of Harkness tables from the English Department at my school, and I have been playing with this idea over the past couple of years. I didn’t realize […]