Berman

=Paula Berman= Interested in learning new techniques for building student involvement in learning. My goal is for all students to pass my class, learn the curriculum, and enjoy the process. I believe that anyone can take pleasure in reading and writing, but this requires repairing some students' relationship with the English language the process of learning it. Many of them only lack skill through atrophy or disinterest, but if I can find a way to appeal to them, they will find they can succeed.

Map Major understandings Essential questions

I still am not sure concretely what I'm supposed to be doing. How would I change my short story unit to make it more in line with DI? Considering the time constraints for each unit? I think I understand the idea of having goals for major understanding and essential questions, but not sure about activities that I would want to construct to make my unit more accessible to all students. Are tasks "respectful"? How to incorporate small group work?