PhilWP Classroom Inquiry Projects

Human Agency, Social Action and Classroom Practices: What happens when teachers move over to allow sudents to pave their own path towards enacting change?

• See examples of modeling, journal activities, classroom processes, reading and writing experiences.
• Appropriate for high school English, social science and special education teachers.
• Develop community in a classroom over the course of a year.

Playing with the Possible - Teaching, Learning and Drama on the Second Stage

• Read about a classroom community where "real questions that matter" were raised and explored from many perspectives.
• See examples of the transforming dialogues that emerged.
• View movies of student drama generated by the questions and discussions

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Ask students to discuss a specific literary theme such as "conflict." Lead students in a group discussion about the discussion about the differences between internal and external conflicts while using examples from personal experiences. Point out examples of such conflicts in the literature being discussed in class. Adaptation: Describe a personal conflict with a peer. Create a short skit to dramatize the conflict for a small group. Use a writer’s workshop model to develop the written piece that has become enhanced by the dramatization. Peer conferencing can be used to raise questions geared towards developing or enriching the focus