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In social studies this week we examined who writes history with two articles labeled who writes history? and The Rosa Parks Myth. Both articles examined the different perspectives and how the story can look different depending on who tells the story. The authors gave an example of how to teach students how to think critically of the things they read. You give each half of the class the same story except for half of the class gets the story from a different perspective and then discuss what happened as a class. The main example was the story of Columbus and the finding of America as well as the real story of Rosa Parks. Students need to master the skill of thinking critically about text so they don't believe everything they read. Then in integrating exceptional students into the classroom we spoke at length about RtI (Response to Intervention) and we even played RtI bingo which made for a very attentive class. We learned that RtI was data grounded and is used to bridge the gap for students who are below grade level. This is an early intervention for students and is used to help identify learning disabilities. There are three tiers, with each tier there are less and less students and more support.
And that's all for this week,
Ms. Brookes