Essay #3 Brainstorm

Working with students with oral features

• Meaning is most important
• Focusing efforts on forming meaning and clarifying meaning that is already there in the student's work
• Helping students understand that meaning-making and a strong message is both what will be most helpful for them and for their assignment
• Raising awareness that there is hardly ever one right way to do things when it comes to language
• Noticing tendencies and key words/phrases where students get caught up or ways that their dialect comes through in assignments that should be tailored more for Standard English
• Sharing my own background and the idea that everyone has a dialect when it comes to language and writing
• Embracing differences for specific assignments and projects where they work well
• Understanding Standard English as another dialect to be utilized
• Negotiating systems of language to adapt to situations and specific prompts