INTEGRATED ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS METHODS I

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Psychiatric Tales Please include a detailed description of the text. Take into consideration that your colleagues might not be familiar with the text that you have chosen. A detailed description will include everything necessary for your classmates to gain an understanding of the text without reading it. Your job is to introduce the text in a complete way so that it is possible for others to decide when, where, and how this text might be appropriate. Psychiatric Tales by Darryl Cunningham is a graphic novel that follows his time working in a Psychiatric Hospital. There he works with patients dealing with, dementia, schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder. There are 11 different stories all focusing on one issue. A long with that the author writes two stories about his own hardships with mental health.   2. Please explain why you chose this text. What was your rationale? How does your understanding of this text influence your thinking about your teaching. I c...

This week the reading was on Visual Literacy. There is a lot that goes into Visual Literacy. One thing that stood out to me was the subject of meaning and how it relates to Visual Literacy. In the NES text, the author writes, "Meaning does not exist in a text. Meaning exists in the interplay between viewers and readers and the text". In teaching, it is crucial to note that students will interpret material in different ways. For example, lets say im teaching and I show a video or a painting pertaining to the unit we are on. Student A will interpret in one way, but that does not mean Students B,C,D,E etc. will interpret it in the same way. In the Common Core State Standards there is no specific section on Visual Literacy. I think that is due to the latter. Visual literacy is interpreting information that comes in visual form. While this sounds simple I think it is difficult to set a standard for it. It is difficult because people interpret images in a different way. That is why...

When it comes to Speaking and Listening, I enjoy the listening side of it. Listening requires little to no effort. Listening goes a long way in a classroom setting. For example, it is impossible to succeed in college if you are not a good listener. Most classes here at EWU are lecture classes and seminars where listening is the key to success. If you do not listen then you do not take notes and if you do not take notes then you do not pass. I know there is more to listening than just listening. There are some students who struggle with attention. I had many classmates whom could not pay attention due to ADD or something of that sort. It is unfortunate that some students struggle with this. However, these students whom struggle with listening are sometimes the best at Speaking. On the other hand, Speaking is not my strong suit. In class, the answer can be in my head but I will not speak up some times. Speaking is something I have been working on since my freshman year. There is som...

Reading "Discussion as a way of Teaching" by Stephen Brookfield was...different. Usually, articles which are thirty plus pages are a bunch of data and analysis. However, this article was more of a handbook for teachers. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this article. Especially, the section on "Circle of Voices".  I feel as if this is something that could have helped me a lot in middle school and high school. In high school I had a tendency to keep quiet during discussions. There would even be times where I knew for a fact I had the right answer, but still I did not speak up. I do not know why that was the case. Yet, in a setting where the Circle of Voices was present, I would have thrived. The Circle of Voices was something that benefits those whom are quiet and shy. Many times students do not answer because they fear they will speak up at the same time as someone else. The uninterrupted time to share in Circle of Voices could take away that fear from students. Also, th...

Culture Distance an Cultural Dimensions in Diverse ELT Environments by Margaret Lieb was a great read. Usually I read Scholarly Articles and I am not interested in the subject. However, I found this article intriguing and easy to read. I think this is due to the subject of the article. This article is about the teaching of English in Japan and the cultural effects of it. In this article I find many of Lieb's points interesting. For example, Lieb speaks on the rapid increase in intercultural communications and population. Coming from a community with a large population of Mexicans this is something that is familiar to me. Both of my parents were born in Mexico and then immigrated here to live out the "American Dream". The population of the town I am from is still mostly white. However, as the years go by the amount of different cultures and ethnicity's is growing exponentially. In Japan I can imagine that it is the same. Except, Japan is a country where they tried for ...