Students' Funds of Knowledge and C.I.
This past week, I made a funds of knowledge survey , using Google Forms, for all of my students to fill out. (I heavily borrowed the questions from this prezi !) I used the survey to get the students thinking about their own culture, their own traditions, and what makes them, well, them. We will be doing some deep dives into other cultures with what remains of the school year, so this was the opening to make comparisons between our own cultures and those that we will be studying. It was also an excellent way for me to gather some more background info about my students. One unexpected but interesting thing that I learned was that the students who do not do things with their families were also the least engaged students that I have in my classes. Food for thought as a parent, for sure! The next step to digging into students’ funds of knowledge was done by conducting a CI technique. CI is short for Comprehensible Input , which is a method of delivering students with und...