Digs for my new Friday noon gig where I’ll be working with six adult non-native English speakers on GED Reasoning Through Language Arts. It’s energizing being with learners who want to learn.
Category: Teach
No Adult Literacy Services Here
Wrote to each Hennepin County Commissioner asking them to right a wrong. The $67 million (annual budget) county public library system no longer provides GED and ESL adult literacy services. Recent immigrants have lost an important step-up in life, and I now need to go elsewhere for expert assistance with tutoring. Franklin Learning Center (Minneapolis)… Continue reading No Adult Literacy Services Here
Continuous Learning
Today I feel like a proud parent: my “Phlebotomy as a Third Language” student passed the written exam. We’ll continue with GED preparation.
Obfuscation
Saved by the bell! Ran out of time in today’s “Phlebotomy as a third language” just before this slide. Next time, I’ll try to break this into manageable parts and rephrase: “…degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements.” Not sure I’ll succeed.
Learning in a Time of Covid
In these days of Covid, travel is not an option. Instead, learning new stuff has been fueling our ikigai (getting us out of bed in the morning), and giving us plenty to talk about over dinner. Until one of our dinnertime conversations, I thought grow lights were pretty straightforward. Apparently the cognoscente measure “photosynthetically active… Continue reading Learning in a Time of Covid
Reasoning through Language Arts
It’s Friday. Fridays and Mondays my GED student and I Reason Through Language Arts, layered on ESL.
Everything’s Online
While Dwight received instruction from his yoga teacher via FaceTime in one room, my GED student and I reasoned through language arts via Zoom in another room.
Basement Classroom
It will be 2020 before I can be a tutor again in the basement classroom with a fireplace. The 105-year-old building is about to close for a few months for renovation.
Wednesday Gig
Followed the top arrow to my Wednesday gig.
New Americans
Sat in a room with hard-working Somalis in the basement of a Carnegie library. One hundred years ago I would have been sitting with Swedes in this same room.