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7 thoughts on “Report from the Field – Annemarie Orth – 1”
Annemarie, this is BADASS, and I am sitting here at my desk at Bucksport High School cheering my head off. Congratulations! But now I must know, what is EL? Does it have to do with standards?
EL is Expeditionary Learning. It used to be ELOB-Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound, and then they took out the “OB.” Most EL schools use or are in the process of switching to standard based grading. Casco Bay HS here in Portland is also an EL school.
Rad. COngrats! I do projects– 2 token culture ones– but mostly in English. The kids should learn somethign about SPanish countries etc.
I agree chris. I’m terrible about incorporating culture except through the novels. My WL colleagues and I do a 3 month “expedition” on Hispanic and Francophone art with our 8th graders-and it’s mostly in English. But it’s worth it, I think.
Cool stuff….
Is the form under categories? I would love to see it.
Thanks
I think this is the same one I sent to you:) I’ll email it to you again, Skip.
…this EL guy totally got it. And he dug it. I told him I didn’t do projects, and he said after what he’d experienced in the workshop, he wouldn’t recommend switching what I was doing with TCI to take on even the most amazing projects he has seen in WL classrooms at EL schools….
I sometimes read stuff here and it stays with me. The idea that this administrator said the above shows me that he is a real administrator, looking through the rubble of what teaching is now to find gold nuggets among all the lumps of coal. The compliment to you, Annemarie, couldn’t have been any higher – he basically said that he agrees with you, a practicing teacher in the classroom, that projects don’t bring the gains in the way that CI instruction does. I just think that is so cool, that you didn’t have to convince an administrator about projects.
Related: https://benslavic.com/blog/category/projects-are-useless/