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The text //Beyond Monet//: //The artful Science of Instructional integration// would be of help if I were hired. This book by Barrie Bennet and Carol Rolheiser details lesson plans, games, and learning strategies. Bennet an Rolheiser acknowledge the differentiated student demographic. For instance, they attempt to reach such learners as visual and/or kinesthetic in a //place mat// strategy. When students have read a story or poem, this process helps them to reflect on, write about and share their ideas related to a question or issue. Rather than simply test students' comprehension skills, this strategy can help students to develop communicative and cognitive skills. //Beyond Monet// details tactics that can be used at varying levels and in different classrooms. //Graffiti,// for instance, can be used in the English, social science, or mathematics classroom. This tactic encourages students to think freely. If the culminating task of an English class is an essay, students may need practice brainstorming prior to formulating a final essay. If given the opportunity to practice the technique or "free thought", students may have an easier time essay writing. This tactic, also, encourages students to think outside of the box. They are given freedom to break the chains of the status quo. As an educator, I hope to, also, shake up the status quo and keep my students engaged. This text will help me to achieve this goal.

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I know, what is so new about this resource. Even though it is known to both educators and students alike, I find that not everyone uses it in the classroom. Yes, people do broadcast a lot of garbage; however, once you get past that, there is some really great stuff as well! Regardless, your students are on this site regularly. I am sure that this site will become obselete and a new one will pop up;but, in the mean time educators should browse it once in a while. I stumbled across a rap song of Shakespeare's Macbeth. Honestly, even though I have 3 years of an undergrad in English, I have never really understood this story until I heard it in this genre! If such is the case for me, then possibly other students will feel the same. Even students that do not like rap music are familiar with it's mainstream appeal.

//Beyond Monet: The Artful Science of Instuctional Integration//. By: Barrie Bennett and Carol Rolheser //[]//
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