— By Mary Chaktsiris Many of us have just received an official e-mail informing us that classes have been suspended for the rest of the term and that learning will transition online. This is just the latest in a series of shifting messaging, circumstances, and fluctuating decision-making as institutions cope with the global spread of COVID-19. People, instructors and students, are feeling this uncertainty in multiple areas of their lives, and now in the area of course design with a sense of urgency about how to respond and adapt quickly. Abruptly transitioning your course to a new online pedagogical approach three quarters of the way through the term is not how you imagined it unfolding. When approaching the teaching of...
Communicators should bear in mind key cultural differences and adapt their crisis messages accordingly to engage a worldwide workforce. And speakers, watch your speed and diction. The need for speed is ever present in the midst of a crisis. But when executing crisis communications plans globally, a blanket approach and rushed messaging can do more harm than good. “The assumption that everyone globally will understand and react to the crisis message the same way results in messages that are overly broad and not specific enough in direction and information for many cultures,” says Dean Foster, founder of DFA Intercultural Global Solutions. “They’re addressed to (and by) the wrong people, [and] are not written or presented in ways that ensure accurate comprehension.”...
The end of our year is fast approaching and my kids are getting restless through distance learning. Who can blame them? After 9 weeks of this, it is starting to wear us all down. So I decided to take a bit of a thematic approach to things this week and, so far, it is a hit! I will be doing theme days each week, so come back every day to read about the lessons I did (and pick up the digital links so you can do the same)Unicorn Day 🦄 I started the week with a unicorn theme. Why? Well, because I saw that Mystery Science had this mini-lesson entitled "Are Unicorns Real?" and that got my brain turning. So...
I went to grammar school. I mean it was intense diagramming-sentences kind of grammar back then. I learned what the subjunctive mood was. Actually my mother taught my eighth grade ELA class, but that's another trauma to not talk about for now.Anyway, for this reason as an SLP I've always had a lens on syntax, at least in its functional capactity of comprehending and producing complex sentences. This involves building some syntactic awareness of parts of speech and the functions of words. There is evidence that knowledge of parts of speech and how they go together impacts language and reading comprehension. Approaches like sentence combining are research supported and require this kind of awareness in students.For these reasons, interactives around...
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I am excited to review Reading Kingdom with our son for a second time. We first reviewed Reading Kingdom, an online reading program that customizes to your child, in 2018. (You can read
