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6 thoughts on “Jobs in the Invisibles Classroom”
I love the student jobs! They give kids a sense of belonging and meaning in my classroom.
Ben can you pls add the 15 core jobs to this post?
Yes and I like to arrange them in terms of four “Hubs”. In Hub A to my right are the two artists and the two-story writers. The first artist is responsible for artistic design and is the main artist. The second artist colors in and shades, etc. The first story writer writes in English and the second story writer writes in the target language. This would be a Heritage speaker or a very gifted student. In front of me in the center of the room at the center of Hub B is the Videographer and then to her immediate left is the Reader Leader. To the right of the Videographer is the story driver. The third hub to my left, Hub C, is anchored by the all-important Prof 2 and to her right are the Actors. Also in that hub I have an empty chair, a comfortable arm chair, for supervisors and visitors so that I can try to teach them some language when they’re in the room and give them a feel for what it is like to learn using comprehensible input. Hub D does not occupy any single space area in the room. Rather they are a tech hub which works independently out of class with each other. There are four such jobs. The first is the Archivist, then the Documentary Filmmaker, then the Book Publisher Publisher, and finally the Curator, who is responsible for the end-of-the-year celebration of the work of the Filmmaker and the Book Publisher, and so we in this way of teaching can show off at the end of our year together, instead of pile of worksheets, actual artifacts, that represent real work done.
A revolution to anyone with a traditional lens!
Ben we need to add this information to the book.
Many jobs I’ve tried and let fade away. Some just didn’t blend with my class dynamics. Others blend very nicely, like butter on toast. One of these o-so-buttery jobs that you don’t mention above, Ben, is the Class Secretary. My Class Secretary tallies, on a hard copy of the class roster, whenever a student speaks in Spanish (besides the choral responses, of course). At the end of class we pause for a moment to look at that tally sheet and celebrate those that are speaking in Spanish.