Indigenous Peoples -Native Americans: A news report about Standing Rock, the Dakota Pipeline and discussion questions.

Picture source: Inhabitat.com <http://inhabitat.com/dakota-access-pipeline-operators-to-forge-ahead-in-defiance-of-obama/>

The curriculum for Vg1 and Vg2 specifies that students need to:

1) discuss and elaborate on texts by and about indigenous peoples in English-speaking countries 

and

2) present and discuss current news items from English language sources

On NRK TV, there is an excellent news report about the Dakota Pipeline in the US. The documentary provides a short historical context and also an interview with Dallas Goldtooth from the Sioux tribe in South Dakota. There is also an interview with Sandra Márjá West, the parliamentary representative for the Sami, the indigenous Peoples of Norway. She was at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. 

Here is the link to the news report. 

The students can listen to the report fro the beginning to 14 minutes and answer questions about segment 3, which is the interview with Dallas Goldtooth.

Segment 3 is from 4.59 minutes until 9:27 minutes.

I have written down the questions that the interviwer asks Dallas Goldtooth. The students are supposed to write down answers to these questions and then they can be discussed in class.

Discussion Questions

1)  When the interviewer asks Dallas Goldtooth with the Sioux tribe in North Dakota, what they will do now as the work on the pipeline continues, what does Dallas Goldtooth answer?

2) The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has said that Trump’s decision to continue work on the pipeline is a violation of treaty rights. In what ways is his actions illegal? (include terms like consultation, planning process, disregarding the process, study on the environmental effects in your answer)

3) What positive impact will this pipeline have on America’s economy according to Trump?

4) What are the negative consequences of this pipeline according to Dallas Goldtooth? (include terms like a leaking pipeline, drinking water, routing of pipeline through sacred sites)

5) This protest is not just about Standing Rock. What else is it about? What does Dallas Goldtooth answer?

Working with a CV and an Application Letter

Students need to learn how to write a good CV and an application letter to potentially secure a professional job. 

I have created a task which can be found here. 

I find that NDLA has excellent resources about how to write a CV as well as an application letter.
Here is a link to the resouces about CV on NDLA and here is a link to resouces on application letter on NDLA. 
I find that the CV on NDLA does not require the applicants to talk about their technical skills which I consider to be quite important piece of information escpecially for vocational students, so I ask my students to include that in the CV.

Vocational students are encouraged to use technical vocabulary and here is a link to technical vocabulary at the book Tracks website.

I also upload a sample text for the students which they can use as a template. The sample text can be found here. 

I can be reached at jaspreetgloppen@gmail.com or you can write to the Correcto Ergo Sum page on Facebook, if you have any quesions.

Vocational Task: Conversation about practical training / Yrkesrelatert oppgave: Samtale om elevenes praksisperiode

Vocational students in Norwegian Schools have to go through a period of practical training for two weeks each semseter. 
Sometimes, I have a short 5-7 minutes conversation with my students about their practical training. This assessment is graded and I give verbal feedback right after the conversation. I prefer not to give the grade right away and wait til I have thought things through.
I then post the grades on the learning platform (Its Learning) and then write a comment there that "Feedback was given verbally after the conversation."

Here is a copy of the task. It also includes the assessment criteria. The learners use this link here to get access to the vocational glossary related to their profession, 

A Task About Occupational Health Safety / Opplegg om HMS - Et FYR prosjekt

My colleague Silje Håvardstun and I recently worked together on a task that combines the use of the English language together with a topic from social sciences. Our students also bring in their experiences from their practical training.
The topic is HMS which in English can be referred to as HES (Health Enviroment and Safety) or OHS i.e. Occupational Health and Safety. The students had to discuss health and safety issues related to their occupation and give examples from their practical training and discuss methods that were employed to prevent these injuries.
Here is a list of resources my students got as well as the task.
1) Power point
2) Safety Interview: Text NDLA
3) Vocational Vocabulary
4) Task


Min kollega Silje Håvardstun og jeg har nettopp hatt et tverrfaglig prosjekt der elevene på Vg2 TIP og Kjøretøy som hadde vært i  praksis skulle presentere et opplegg.
Opplegget dreier seg om HMS eller helse, miljø og sikkerhet. Elevene presenter helse og sikkerhetsskader som er vanlige i deres yrke. De skulle også hente eksempler fra sin praksis om tiltak som er på plass for å forebygge skadene.
Her er ressurser og oppgaven elevene fikk:
1) Power point
2) Safety Interview: Text NDLA 
3) Vocational Vocabulary
4) Oppgave

Self-Evaluation / Selvevaluering

Selvevaluering kan være et viktig verktøy for selvutvikling ettersom det kan bevisstgjøre elevene om deres egen progresjon i fagene.  
Det gir oss lærere en innsikt i hvordan elevene har opplevd å lære ulike temaer, hvilke kompetansemål de behersker og hva som trengs å repeteres i klassen.

Spørsmålene som stilles til elevene bør da være av en slikt art som fører til refleksjon hos elevene. Jeg sier også til elevene mine at jeg er avhengig av deres tilbakemelding på mine undervisningsmetoder og hvordan metodene fungerer i klassen. Det er ikke alltid slik at det jeg tror fungerer i en gruppe fungerer like bra i en annen.

Jeg stiller følgende spørsmål til selvevaluering i faget engelsk. Jeg lager en undersøkelse på Its Learning der jeg legger ut spørsmålene. 
1) Jeg viser til kompetansemålene vi har jobbet med og de temaene vi har tatt opp og spør:
 Hvor mange av disse kompetansemålene føler du at du behersker? Hvor mange av de har du lite kunnskap om? Hvor mange av de har du nok kunnskap om men trenger å repetere?
2) Er du fornøyd med innsatsen din så langt? Er det noe du kan tenke deg å gjøre annerledes?

3) Du har fått tilbakemeldinger fra meg på både artikkelen om tema X og tema Y.  Hva er det du gjør bra på og hva er det du kan bli bedre på?

4) Kommentarer til undervisning.

a) Bevaringsområde - hva gjør jeg som du synes fungerer bra i undervisning?

b) Forbedringspotensiale - hva kan jeg bli bedre på?
5) Hvordan kan jeg hjelpe deg?

Her ser dere et eksempel på selvevaluering jeg bruke i høst 2015. 

Recommended reading and watching this weekend.

Happy weekend!

Here are some ideas to chew on this weekend!

1. The period is pissed. Do you agree? Has using a period (fullstop) as a punctuation sign taken on a new meaning? Also watch this video about the use of "exclamation point" here: 

2)  Is Global Warming a hoax? Haha! The historic People's Climate March takes place in New York City while a House of Representatives committee struggles with the basic principles of global warming. 

3) Interesting article on FOMO or the Grass is Greener Syndrome. Can you relate to this fear? Here's How To Conquer Your 'Fear Of Missing Out.'

"Outsourced" Study Guide / Intercultual Communication

The movie Outsourced is an excellent movie to show when working with the topic Intercultural Communication. It shows how an American has to learn to adapt himself to the Indian way of living when he has to move there for work purposes. I have prepared a study guide or discussion questions that students can work with after they have seen the movie. Here is a link to the guide. 

Legg til bildetekst