In this blog post, I am going to reflect on how I changed my mindset about SLIFE, or Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education. But first, I need to recap a bit about the demographic SLIFE. I want to explain what is meant by the acronym and a bit more about these learners.
Continue reading “SLIFE Are Valuable Members of Our Learning Communities”Tag: learning
Applying the Q in QSSSA for Mathematics
by Diane Kue
When I was young, I watched my uncle bend his neck to walk through the doorway only to then hit his head on my parents’ light fixture. I had never seen someone so tall in my life, and I asked, “Uncle Mike, how tall are you?” What wasn’t apparent to me then but is now is how annoying it was for him to be constantly asked about his height. He responded:
“I am 1 yard, 2 feet, and 20 inches.”
Continue reading “Applying the Q in QSSSA for Mathematics”Short Structured Role-Play
Have you read Diary of a Worm (Cronin, 2003)? I have enjoyed it, possibly a hundred times, with my kids. It’s one of our favorites. I have even eyed it across the couch and picked it up to thumb through by myself. Yep. I find it endearing and whimsical, imagining what life could be like as a worm. I have no legs, yet my best friend is a spider with eight of them! I was cozy underground but forced to abandon my home in haste when a torrential rain threatened to drown us. Seeing the nuances of how a worm uniquely performs everyday tasks, such as holding a pencil (with a tail), sleeping (with leaves as bedsheets), and dancing the hokey pokey creates a silly connection with my everyday tasks as a human. There are other books in this series and countless other titles written from unique perspectives. (I often choose my own books based on the perspective from which they are written, too. When narrators shift each chapter, I look forward to how each character reacts internally and externally to the events in a story.)
Continue reading “Short Structured Role-Play”
Seidlitz Education 