Standards
- Dawn Stark - Problem
- Dawn Stark is a high school Japanese teacher at Everett High School in the Lansing School District. She saw a disconnect between her students and authentic learning of a foreign language and the ability to achieve Michigan standards for teaching Japanese.
View her solution. Tags: Foreign Language, High School, Standards
- Dawn Stark - Solution
- Ms. Stark decided to use email to start a correspondence between students in an English class in Japan and the students in her Japanese class in Michigan. By emailing back and forth, both her and her Japanese counterpart were able to enforce grammar and vocabulary each class was currently studying, while providing authentic conversations between the students. The students were also exposed to Japanese culture in a way not possible in her classroom in Lansing and were more likely to tackle higher level language skills than in normal instruction.
Review her problem. Tags: Foreign Language, High School, Email, Digital Imaging, Standards
- Sandra Smits - Problem
- Sandra Smitts is a 3rd grade teacher at Bauer Elementary in Hudsonville, MI. Ms. Smits and her peer teachers have to deal with the pressure to meet the district, state and federal standards while still creating lesson plans that are engaging and creative and that meet the needs of all of their students.
See her solution. Tags: Elementary, Science, Standards
- Sandra Smits - Solution
- Ms. Smits uses claymation to motivate her students to meet the standards for her science class during the their life cycle unit. Using a digital cameras and the software Video Blender, the students use clay to create an animation of different life cycles. After the unit is done, she hosts a movie day and the students watch each others videos. Afterwards she uses the videos as an assessment using a rubric she created with her peer teachers.
View the problem Tags: Elementary, Science, Video, Digital Imaging, Animation, Standards