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Diane Gusa

Closing your course - 0 views

  • ues: Provides emotional and psychological closure to the classroom thereby reducing awkwardness. Acts as an opportune time to summarize central ideas and review content. Wraps up the class in ways that add to students' entire semester-long experience and sense of accomplishment.
  • Give students some memento from the course experience. Just as with a memorable trip, people enjoy having something to remember important events in their life.
  • Contribute to a sense of accomplishment. In one sense an activity can put closure on the class from an academic or learning based perspective. Completing your class should be seen as something worthwhile and important.
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  • Create the feeling that the class has come to a culmination and it is time to move on.
  • Projects, Letters, Brochures
  • Emotional Parting Way
  • Taking the time to say "good bye" and "thank you" to students can be very effective.
  • Particularly meaningful quotes can be distributed to students, or put on an overhead at the end of the last day of the course or during the final as a way of ending the class
  • Your own style.
  • Type of Closure
  • If no community, no need for closur
Diana Cary

Threaded Vs. Linear - 0 views

  • . This is the preferred form
  • Linear is less helpful for convergent conversations, fragmented and detailed topics and coming to closure.
  • Both forms, and even a combination of the two, have their place and usefulness. However, people tend to have strong prefernces for the format they first used. Within a team, there may be some differences of opinions on this.
Melissa Pietricola

Teachers' Domain: Social Studies - 0 views

  • Sheyann Webb was eight years old in 1965 when she marched for voting rights. In this interview, recorded for Eyes on the Prize, she recalls the events of the Selma march.
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      Shevann Webb-primary source interview on voting rights march. Info on Selma March; used for Eyes on the Prize.
    • Melissa Pietricola
       
      I would probably use this as a closure piece to a lesson on integration. It brings to life the ideas I'm describing.
    • Melissa Pietricola
       
      The Resource Highlights are great primary source interviews! They are relatively short and very interesting.
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    For Module 4 SHevann Webb-Voting rights march participant in '65. One of my concepts is citizenship and I am hoping that the struggle for voting rights will be chosen by my students. What a great primary source this interview is!
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