Taught ASL for nearly 20 years, ESL/ELL for just under five years. "Retired" from teaching and/or interpreting. Desire to use my knowledge and acquired resources (in ASL, ESL/ELL, and world history) to create worksheets, activities, rubrics, and etc.
Taught ASL for nearly 20 years, ESL/ELL for just under five years. "Retired" from teaching and/or interpreting. Desire to use my knowledge and acquired resources (in ASL, ESL/ELL, and world history) to create worksheets, activities, rubrics, and etc.
Who it’s for: American Sign Language (ASL) instructors/educators
What’s included: Discussion questions based on the episode. Formats offered doc and PDF – same questions on either file.
Why it’s useful: For those educators who desire to use a movie or television show/episode but struggle with making the showing relevant, here are some discussion questions to lead students in thinking through what was viewed. Educators can use these questions as either in-class discussions or hand to students for in-class work or even as homework. Might be a good snow-day assignment, if the instructor is certain students have access to the movie (was on Netflix for a time).
Extra Information: These questions will open the opportunity to discuss d/Deaf-hearing families and communication amongst those members, d/Deaf education and mainstreaming, communication with d/Deaf persons in their chosen language, cultural point-of-view regarding speaking/signing, and d/Deaf within the political realms.
Who it’s for: American Sign Language (ASL) instructors/educators.
What’s included: Activity description with details for students to follow on how to conduct the experience/experiment as well as how to compose the journal/paper. Rubric for educators to utilize to aid in grading the level of participation, thought, and composition. Formats offered doc, xls, and PDF – same information/questions on either file, per the name of the files.
Why it’s useful: As ASL instructors, we are often confronted with students that have not had personal exposure to d/Deaf world. In some cases, we simply live and teach in areas that are not highly concentrated with d/Deaf and therefore lack the ability to aid our students in experiencing the d/Deaf world. The purpose of the Deaf experience/Ear plug experiment is to give students a glimpse of what it is to be d/Deaf and operate within the hearing world.
Extra information: This project is intensive, but the purpose of the experience/experiment should warrant a more involved assignment. All parameters for the project are available for each instructor’s personal alteration. The Excel file contains a single tab/worksheet of the rubric. The Excel file will enable you to alter the headers and/or information therein. Also, with a bit of work, you should be able to modify the Excel file to compute students’ grades for you.
