Insight Into Instruction: Recent Episodes
Insight Into Instruction
An education podcast focused on combining and cultivating conversations between instructors and students. Created by WSU Vancouver students in their Junior Year during the Covid Pandemic.
Contact: insightintoinstruction@gmail.com
Reflecting on our experience attending and speaking at the San Diego Lilly Conference on January 5, 2023. // Topic: Multimodal Formative Assessments: Harnessing Student Creativity for Deeper Learning. // Presenters Mentioned: STRIVING FOR DIGITAL EQUITY Teaching for Active and Engaged Learning by Tinukwa Boulder, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh and Mabel CPO Okojie, Mississippi State University --- MAXIMIZING TEACHING FOR STUDENT SUCCESS by Mary Dixon, PhD Professor of Instruction The University of Texas at San Antonio https://marydixson.godaddysites.com/ & https://marydixson.godaddysites.com/adhd-resources ---
With a little elbow twisting (okay not that much) and promises that it would be in person so she could show off her amazing hair, Triple-I invited back our amazing Practicum teacher from Fall 2022, Kim Sanchez. LIVE from the Junior Cohort, 2023 classroom at WSUV, we provided the students of this year's class to ask burning questions they had regarding their futures as teachers by giving them insight into public schools from the lens of someone who has been a teacher, a principal, and admin.
For this episode, we interviewed students ranging from age 9 to age 14 for our TCH_LRN 322 Reading & Writing 4-8 class. This interview was meant to find out more about "Tweenager" interests outside of school and specifically to obtain data and information regarding their Reading Interests. We found that by completing these interviews, we were able to gain a deeper sense of the students as people as we delved into students' culture, language, home life, and how they felt about being "Tweenagers".
Delving into Assessments FOR Learning, Gottlieb Ch. 6. ---> Source: Gottlieb, M. (2016). Assessing English Language Learners: Bridges to Educational Equity: Connecting Academic Language Proficiency to Student Achievement (Second ed.). Corwin.
Delving into Assessments as Learning, Gottlieb Ch. 5. ---> Source: Gottlieb, M. (2016). Assessing English Language Learners: Bridges to Educational Equity: Connecting Academic Language Proficiency to Student Achievement (Second ed.). Corwin.
Source: Gottlieb, M. (2016). Assessing English Language Learners: Bridges to Educational Equity: Connecting Academic Language Proficiency to Student Achievement (Second ed.). Corwin.
Sources:
Tonya Ward Singer. (2018). EL excellence every day : the flip-to guide for differentiating academic literacy / Tonya Ward Singer ; foreword by Jeff Zwiers. Corwin.
A glimpse into the end-of-semester personal reflections. Many professors in the Elementary Education Program require students to complete assessments of themselves and their work as well as participation and learning in each individual class. The reflection to which we are responding today is from our Teaching Elementary Math class, taught by Tara Heikila. We hope this gives you some insight into one of the ways that teachers in the WSUV Elementary Education Program are responsive to us as students as well as people. // In this episode we reference the following texts: Intentional Talk, How to Structure and Lead Productive Mathematical Discussions, written by Elham Kazemi & Allison Hintz & Impact of Identity in K-8 Mathematics, Rethinking Equity-Based Practices by Julia Aguirre, Karen Mayfield-Ingram & Danny Bernard Martin. Also mentioned were CCSS (Common Core State Standards) and Math Practices, and the AVID Program definition of a "one-pager".
In this episode, we reflect on the conclusion of the ORATE Conference we attended Feb. 25, 2022 ( http://www.orate.org/ ). We discuss the conference’s Keynote speaker Renée Watson ( https://www.reneewatson.net/ ), a renowned Coretta Scott King, and Newbery medal winning author, and thoughts on her in-person interview. After our presentation with Dr. Jessica Masterson, we were able to attend two wonderful sessions on which we reflect. The first session was about Restorative Justice Research-Practice Partnership: Collaborating to Design Relational and Healing Focused Practices, presented by Shanté Stuart McQueen. The second session we observed was titled Anti-Racist Education for Asian American Students Post-Pandemic, presented by Lin Wu and Olympia Lai. Each one of these speakers brought such a light on aspects of their presentation and talked about the difficult subject of race and our history.
Trigger Warnings: Asian Crit, Black Crit, Critical Race Theory, Racism
Sources/Citations:
Renée Watson: Piecing Me Together (Bloomsbury, 2017)
Interview with Dr. Sharroky Hollie: esteemed author, the brain behind Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning, public figure.
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Main Text Referenced:
Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning
Classroom Practices for Student Success
Author: Sharroky Hollie
Foreward by Becky Allen
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Hollie, S. (2017). Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning (second edition): Classroom Practices for Student Success (2nd ed.). Shell Educational Publishing.
Ladson-Billings, G. (2014) Culturally Relevant Pedagogy 2.0: a.k.a. the Remix. Harvard Educational Review.
Delve into the PodSquad's (yup, that's our new nickname) Teaching and Learning Beliefs when it comes to Mathematics. Are you "a math person"?
A look into the lives and personal thoughts of the creators of Insight Into Instruction!
Sources:
Ethnic Notions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wCNYT0FRiY
Trigger Warning: Racism, stereotypes, white oppression.
Texts Referenced:
Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Teaching and Learning Classroom Practices for Student Success
Author: Sharroky Hollie Foreward by Becky Allen // Hollie, S. (2017). Culturally and linguistically responsive teaching and learning (second edition): Classroom practices for student success (2nd ed.). Shell Educational Publishing.
Texts Referenced:
PLANNING MEANINGFUL INSTRUCTION FOR ELLs Chapter 4, Writing and Teaching to Learning Objectives By Joy Egbert and our English Language Learning professor Gielsa Ernst-Slavit Understanding by Design Chapter 1, What is Backward Design By Grant Wiggins Jay McTighe //
Texts Referenced:
Culturally and Linguistically
Responsive Teaching and Learning
Classroom Practices for Student Success
Author: Sharooky Hollie
Foreward by Becky Allen
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Hollie, S. (2017). Culturally and linguistically responsive teaching and learning (second edition): Classroom practices for student success (2nd ed.). Shell Educational Publishing.
Texts Referenced:Culturally and Linguistically
Responsive Teaching and Learning
Classroom Practices for Student Success
Author: Sharooky Hollie
Foreward by Becky Allen
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Hollie, S. (2017). Culturally and linguistically responsive teaching and learning (second edition): Classroom practices for student success (2nd ed.). Shell Educational Publishing.
How to apply the SAMR Model with Ruben Puentedura. (2016, July 12). Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQTx2UQQvbU
Texts Referenced:The Courage to Teach - Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life
Tenth Anniversary Edition
By Parker J. Palmer
Chapter 1: The Heart of a Teacher Identity and Integrity in Teaching
You can get it here: https://www.amazon.com/Courage-Teach-Exploring-Landscape-Anniversary/dp/0787996866
The Problem We All Live With - Part One and Two
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/562/the-problem-we-all-live-with-part-one
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack
This essay is excerpted from, "White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women's Studies," copyright 1988 by
By Peggy McIntosh.
Read it here: https://psychology.umbc.edu/files/2016/10/White-Privilege_McIntosh-1989.pdf
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