Podcasts about english drama

Games can be an effective learning tool, but they can also be a fruitless waste of classroom time. How can we identify the best games for learning? @larryferlazzo @eschildge @fisher1000 @Bamradionetwork Nationally Board Certified Teacher in English as a New Language (EAYA ENL) with 20 years of combined experience teaching ESL and foreign language, advocates on educational issues related to English learners (ELs) and develops training on how to best educate ELs for NYSUT's Education & Learning Trust, the professional learning arm of the statewide teachers' union. Michael Fisher is a former teacher who is now a full-time author and instructional coach. His latest book is Hacking the Common Core. Eric Schildge is an English/Drama teacher at Sparhawk School in Amesbury, MA. He collaborates with artists, writers, actors, journalists, and other creative professionals to bring learning to life for students.

In our introductory episode, the teachers of the LCA English department introduce themselves, their pedagogies, and their goals for the podcast. Episode Transcript: Welcome to Prose and Context, a podcast about lifegiving teaching by the English department at Lexington Christian Academy. (Intro Music) Danah: Welcome, and thanks for joining us. This is our first episode. We wanted to take some time to introduce ourselves and talk through some of our goals for the podcast. So I am Danah Hashem, and I teach tenth grade World Literature. Karen: My name is Karen Elliott, and I currently teach 12th and 11th grade American and British literature and some cinema. Nancy: My name is Nancy Nies, and I teach 9th graders in an intensive English program, mostly international students from China, Japan, and Korea. Rebecca: Hello, my name is Rebecca LaFroy, and I’ve just moved from the UK where I taught English to 11-18 year olds, and here in the States, I’m going to be teaching it to 7th, 8th, and 9th grade. Lori: My name is Lori Johnson, and I teach 6th and 8th grade language arts, and do some technology in the school. We wanted to introduce ourselves and give some of the background of how we came to teaching, how we came to LCA, and, um, sort of the journey that’s brought us here. Karen: ah, my name is Karen Elliott, and my journey is very odd. Uh, I went to very liberal, secular schools which I really loved, and I gained a lot from that. My background is writing, composition, and comparative literature, and, um, I wrote for a small newspaper now defunct in New York City, and, when I got married and we moved to Boston and I was writing my dissertation, and I got a letter in the mail from a little school I’d never heard of: Lexington Christian Academy. And I came in to sub for a woman who was on maternity leave, and I never left. I love it here. It’s just, I knew it was my calling. Danah: This is Danah, and I also have an odd background. My undergrad is in chemical engineering, so I worked in biotech for about 3 years before exploring going into teaching. I had always wanted to be a teacher; I come from a family of teachers. Um, but it just wasn’t something that my life would allow at the time, but 3 years in, I ended up going back and getting my master’s in teaching and my master’s in literature, and one of the first interviews I got after I graduated was here at LCA, and I’ve been here ever since, and I love it. Nancy: My name is Nancy, and my background is 10 years as a journalist, mostly in magazines. And then I went back to graduate school in Victorian novel and feminist theory, and I spent most of my career teaching at college level, ah, women’s studies, writing across the curriculum, and English. And then, as my career went along, I ended up working with more and more international students which led me into teaching, both graduate and undergraduate students from around the world, and I loved it. So, as my job became more management oriented, I knew I wanted to stick to teaching, so I switched to high school, and I began here 5 years ago, and I’ve been focusing on these students who are newbies, and I also teach courses that are for students who have high levels of English, but, fluency, but, uh, don’t have the cultural background on how to write in an American academic context. Rebecca: My mum was a history teacher, so growing up, being a teacher was the one thing I didn’t want to do. Uh, however, when I came to apply for college, I knew I wanted to study drama, and so I applied for lots of different courses including drama, and one of them was, ah, called “Education with English Drama.” And that was the one that I ended up doing. During my college course, I set up an organization called Little Hats which took drama into elementary schools and enthused them about the world of drama, and I just found that I loved it. So I trained to be a teacher, um, and, ah,