Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id e7MK37823868; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:03:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 16:03:07 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20000822200005.WBGS14052.mtiwmhc27.worldnet.att.net@webmail.worldnet.att.net> Errors-To: rgspacone@aol.com Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: maureenlawlor@att.net To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:1168] Community role map X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AT&T Message Center Version 1 (May 2 2000) Status: O Content-Length: 1690 Lines: 41 I also have used the EFF community role map in a similar setting with great results. Recently, I coordinated a basic literacy tutoring program in a correctional facility. Periodically, I would conduct workshops for the inmate tutors and, with the goal of introducing EFF into the program, I developed a workshop series titled, "Am I a Citizen?" We began by looking at the idea of community and like Ellen Loebl, the participants initially had a difficult time with that concept. When one participant offered that perhaps the gang he used to belong to was a community, most of the 8 men agreed. To this group, gang membership was the closest connection they were able to make to being a citizen of a community. From this point, however, we made progress eventually creating our own community of learners in the classroom with each member of the community looking at the broad areas of responsibilities in relation to their participation as a citizen of a learning community. The participants, through verbal and written feedback, came to an understanding of community, took responsibility for their learning, supported the group's learning process and came to the concensus that even thought they were presently incarcerated, they could still take pride in being a citizen of something positive, their own classroom based learning community. This is one of the true values of EFF--with a bit of creative thinking, the role maps can take you and your students to places they never imagined. Maureen Lawlor -- Maureen A. Lawlor, MA Warren Avenue Chelsea, MA 02150 mlawlor@waldenu.edu -- Maureen A. Lawlor, MA Warren Avenue Chelsea, MA 02150 mlawlor@waldenu.edu
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