Tuesday, March 10, 2009
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Millennial to the bone, the Macy Homeroom is a community of 21st Century learners at Denver Academy High School in Denver, Colorado. Students and teachers are committed to growing our traditional and new age media literacies through reading, writing, and daily interaction with technology.
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T- Tell me something about what you read
EX- Write out an EXcerpt from the book (with citation) related to the most significant or pivotal point in the reading
Example: "My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry. I had never thought it possible" (Wiesel 19).
T- Try to understand better by asking a question
Y- How does it relate to you? OR, if it does not relate to you; How did reading this make you FEEL?
EX- Write out an EXcerpt from the book (with citation) related to the most significant or pivotal point in the reading
Example: "My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry. I had never thought it possible" (Wiesel 19).
T- Try to understand better by asking a question
Y- How does it relate to you? OR, if it does not relate to you; How did reading this make you FEEL?
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I think that teachers that were brought up from a different generation don't understand that we all don't learn the same as one another and that's why Denver Academy was made. i love how the teachers here understand that we all have different leaning styles.
ReplyDeleteI belive that the bulblic school in genral is a hole differnt sistem all together. The teacher have a huge class to teach and arn't going to know wather you need indvel ation or not. You need to let them know, even if the way they teach dosen't work for you. athough I'm not sure that I ever went to a puplic school. But i felt bad for my kindergarden teacher, it was just him and a prent that helped out. He sitll had a hard time controling the class.But I do think if they understoud how there stundents learned (for thoughs that care)things might be differnt.
ReplyDeleteI think that teachers in the current era have made many changes from the previous era, most of them for the better. However i still think changesneed to be made, for example, human bodies are not meant to be sitting in desks for five hours a day. They are meant to be moving. It is true that it is difficult to incorperate academics into phycal activity, but that is the problem. Teachers should not try to incorperate academics into exercise, but rather let the students be free for a certain amount of time. They should then return to the lecture after the students have released exess or unwanted energy and are ready to learn while having more focus.
ReplyDeleteBradon, Kelly, and Neil, these are all excellent, thoughtful comments! You guys are stars.
ReplyDeleteI think more schools should be like Denver Academy, this way no child would feel stupid. But best of all, the children would feel good about going to a fun school.
ReplyDeletei think the teachers in private schools are more informed with there students. They get to know there students and learn how to help them. In a public school the teachers are not as close with there students as in a private school. They give them homework and say that it is due trhe next day. When you are in a private they take the time to help you understand what you are doing so when you go home then you know how to do the homework.
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