EBC High School Case Study

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Students at East Brooklyn Community High School literacy level are very low. Students have trouble comprehending material, analyzing, writing, reading and using vocabulary words. Each lesson plan throughout a unit targets a learning strategy. My goal is to attack the use of vocabulary and building inquiry so students can become better reader and writers. Going into fieldwork my over arching question is How can I engage students to build confidence to have a successful education at EBC High School despite their failures prior to attending EBC High School? Students come to this transfer school because formal high school did not work for them. My goal as a teacher at EBC High School can be somewhat challenging with students coming in with financial, …show more content…

Students will have the opportunity to analyze text, look into Supreme Court cases that correspond with the unit and focus on the unit vocabulary. To help student become better readers and writers as a class students will learn strategies to help them better understand a text. Students will compare and contrast primary sources and secondary sources. A fun learning activity that works really well in history classes are Moot Court activities. Students will reenact a court case during the child labor after learning and gaining all the information they need to generate a well-rounded argument. The class would turn into a courtroom and student would be broken up into …show more content…

All I need to do is add my teaching style to it. One of the concepts I kept in the curriculum from the previous teacher is showing movies. Students today are far more visual then ever before. Having a visual allows them to feel and see emotion and characters into play. While watching the movie students will fill out a movie analysis worksheet which can be found on the national archive website. This worksheet is very helpful. It helps students look for specific things in a movie, understand the role of actors, get a sense of the time period while still learning the content. This worksheet also helps them become better writers and

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