"360" Newsletter created by RAMIN YAZDANPANAH, PH.D. July 2023 |
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With the goal of supporting your professional and personal growth, this easy-to-digest newsletter delivers a teaching resource, a PD resource, a quote, and a question for you to ponder. Feel free to forward this to anyone who you think might benefit. It really is the little shifts in our habits that lead to great outcomes. Have a resource, quote, or question to share with our community? Feel free to reply to this newsletter and share. I will try to include it in upcoming issues and credit you for your contribution. |
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The Marshall Leveled Reading Program Co-created by adult educators using stories from Reading Skills for Today's Adults (RSTA), CrowdED Learning is proud to offer 345 leveled readings and engaging activities to learners and instructors in a variety of formats. Each option includes the original story, along with a Quizlet study set to practice and learn the story vocabulary and a Google Forms quiz for learners to check their comprehension. These resources can be accessed here: https://www.crowdedlearning.org/our-work/rsta
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Tapping into the Funds of Knowledge of Our Adult ESOL Learners Learners of adult ESOL come to the classroom with rich funds of knowledge across language, culture, society, academics, as well as life and work skills. Drawing on these resources creates a classroom community based on respect and cross-cultural understanding. This enriching environment can increase learner motivation, help students connect to the content, and support sustained learning. This webinar focuses on approaches teachers can apply to tap into and leverage their students’ funds of knowledge towards scaffolding understanding of academic material, developing greater cultural competence, and establishing learner agency. |
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"Commit yourself to lifelong learning. The most valuable asset you will ever have is your mind and what you put into it." – Albert Einstein
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The term funds of knowledge can be defined as “...the historical accumulation of abilities, bodies of knowledge, assets, and cultural ways of interacting” that adult learners bring with them" (Funds of Knowledge Toolkit). Question: How might you leverage the funds of knowledge that you, your students, and/or your colleagues bring to your program?
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