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A Lot of Fire
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Another version of the above is that in my opinion we need to work more towards developing strategies that bring our students together as a whole group of students, all of them, so that the students all exhibit unconditional positive regard amongst each other because of strategies that we choose that do not exclude anyone, the do not let a student hierarchy develop in the classroom. My way to do that is through group created images and certain student jobs. There are as many inclusion strategies as there are teachers and we will each develop our own strategies – that is the beauty of this work; there is no one way to do it, no right way. In my opinion, non-targeted strategies that are free of the oppression of the curriculum and the textbook and word lists are the pathway to this fine sense of community that we seek. This statement of truth is true for me at least. I admire those who are able to build a strong sense of community with one eye on the curriculum. Being able to build a strong sense of inclusion and community and involve all the kids at a high level of interest and engagement so that all the kids in the classroom learn, while still satisfying the curricular requirements of the school, the common assessment, the tests, the units, etc. a magic trick. It is because the former can only happen when memorization is not used, and the latter only when it is used.
Dana Miller-Kitch puts the whole thing very succinctly:
…If we truly want language to be accessible to everyone, we have to teach it in a way that makes it that way….
We need to be focusing on inclusion in teaching and coming up with ways that foster it, along with equity, in our classes. Language classes should be one area that it shouldn’t be difficult to make that shift. However, we need teachers, administrators and curriculum developers to be on board.
Dana we will take video next week of the Portland Cascadia session on Equity in the Foreign Language classroom, the first time a conference has formally and specifically addressed it. It’s about time.
Dana, by the way, to introduce her to the community here, is taking the job in the fall that I had in India in 2015-2016. Thank you for your comment Dana. The fact is that in my own experience to be finally arriving at a fuller understand of FULL inclusion of ALL the kids in the classroom and to finally know that THIS CAN BE DONE is beyond exciting. Anyone who has tried in good faith but failed to reach disenfranchised kids in their classrooms knows exactly how exciting this really is. It’s everything, really, because once the kids trust each other, all of them all of the time, we will see something. I love the idea that we are finally getting to the deeper layers of the onion.