

What Are the Intents Behind Your Curriculum? Wood's (1988) Models for Curriculum Evaluation
Wood (1988) presented three models for curriculum evaluation. We were asked to identify one that would be beneficial for our teaching...


Is Technology Beneficial in the Language Learning Classroom?
Does technology help or hinder in the classroom? To take part in this global debate, I will address three pros and three cons to...


Conscientização and Curriculum Reform: Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paulo Freire’s groundbreaking work, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, identified how education can either entrench or elevate societal views...


Why Priorities Matter in Curriculum Development
This post will discuss my definition of the word “curriculum” and the personal, professional, and educational experiences that led up to...


Is There a Quality Curriculum for American Sign Language Instruction?
This is a reflection of my relationship with language curriculum within my milieu of teaching American Sign Language (ASL) and other...


The 3 Purposes Guiding My ASL Curriculum
My milieu is minority language teaching. For today’s discussion, I will focus specifically on the three purposes leading my curriculum in...


Who Determines What is Worth Learning in the Minority Language Classroom?
My reflections for this post have focused around my milieu of teaching minority languages such as American Sign Language, Hungarian,...


What are Effective Methods to Make Learning Relatable for Language Students?
In Elliot W. Eisner’s article, What Does It Mean to Say a School is Doing Well? the author puts forth many questions about standardized...


Absent Teachers: Poverty and the Deaf Classroom
In a general sense, poverty has one of the greatest impacts on education. It can lead to poor students having difficulty learning because...


Ways to Upset Language Power Dynamics in the Classroom
Many countries, especially those with large and diverse populations, are unsure of how to address minority language communities. This...