Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id eAO6hX922710; Fri, 24 Nov 2000 01:43:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 01:43:33 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <F236irBHORUedPfmsLC00002f18@hotmail.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "clifford frair" <hawkpilot7@hotmail.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:5322] Re: curriculum number six X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Status: O Content-Length: 2562 Lines: 68 >From: Eileen Trainor <et02@swt.edu> >Reply-To: nifl-esl@nifl.gov >To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> >Subject: [NIFL-ESL:5321] Re: curriculum number six >Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 19:49:29 -0500 (EST) > >How about learner-based curriculum? Teach them what they want/need to know >to >function as worker/parent/citizen. I have found the most effective >teachers >to be the ones who ask, "what do you need to learn for <fill in the >blank>?" >Then they figure out a way to help the individual learn that information. > >My opinion and I'm no expert. > >Eileen Trainor > > >===== Original Message From nifl-esl@nifl.gov ===== > >Shall we add number six to the list of curriculums/curricula? > > > >How about the perceived curriculum? The sum total that is learned by >each > >student. It has to be filtered through past experiences, personal >talents, > >and even the current living conditions. > > > >In my former incarnation I taught middle school ESL & math classes during >the > >day and adult classes (ABE and immigration/citizenship programs) at >night. > >Currently I teach adults (teachers) about instructional methodology, ESL > >instrution, and for Gifted programs. Incedently, I see very little > >difference in the learning styles of the adult immigrants and the >university > >educated teachers, but that is another topic all together. > > > >All learners, but especially adults, come to class with goals and > >expectations. These must be integrated into all the other issues that >make > >up the final curriculum, taht we teach, as David's 6th curriculum >indicates. > >But after all this negotiation has occured, something must happen in the > >brain of the student that changes the very nature of the mind. That's > >probably why I used to get headaches while attending language school in > >Madrid, Spain. Something was happening to my mind and I would never be >the > >same.... (Shades of paranoia and bad science fiction movies).... But >this > >must surely be the ultimate curriculum, this I firmly believe, unless, of > >course, someone else comes up with number seven. > >Eileen Trainor, Grant Coordinator >Project Inter-ALT http://cie.ci.swt.edu/interalt >Texas Crime Stoppers http://www.crimestoppers.swt.edu >Center for Initiatives in Education >Southwest Texas State University >San Marcos, TX >et02@swt.edu >512 245 9047 > _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
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