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Hacking Hard Topics in Law & Public Safety w/LAPSEN

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Rigor

Relationships

Relevance

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Story Telling

Let me tell you a little story about a man named Jed…

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Precedent

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First Amendment

  • Religion
  • Speech
  • Press
  • Assembly
  • Petition

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Mnemonic Devices

Greek “of Memory”

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1st Amendment RAPPS

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First Amendment

  • R
  • A
  • P
  • P
  • S

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First Amendment

  • Religion
  • Assembly
  • Petition
  • Press
  • Speech

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A bear has 2 arms = 2nd amendment right to bear arms

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3 quarters to buy a coke for a soldier - quartering soldiers act

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Fourth Amendment:

  • FORE! You better duck cause you might get hit in the head and have a seizure!
  • Fore - Fourth
  • Cause - Probable Cause
  • Seizure - search and seizure

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Contextualization

Personalization

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Bait & Switch: Teaching Literacy in Law & Public Safety Courses

Thomas Washburn, PhD

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As many as 1 in 5 high school graduates are functionally illiterate

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Why CTE?

We can get their interest

We can get their attention

Every single career in CTE requires literacy

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Who Teaches Them?

95% Home

90% School

90% None

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Stages of Reading Development

Prereading

    • Oral
    • Vocab

01

Initial Reading

    • Letters/sounds
    • Sound Spelling

02

Confirmation & Fluency

    • Decoding
    • Fluency
    • Strategies

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Stages of Reading Development

Reading for Learning

    • Habits
    • Expand Vocab
    • Build background & world knowledge

1

Multiple Viewpoints

    • Critical analysis
    • Understand multiple points of view

2

Construction & Reconstruction

    • Analysis
    • Synthesis

3

4

5

6

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Vocab – the anchor

No – they don’t know

Word Search

Cross Word

Flash Cards

Quiz

Quiz Retake

Point out use in class

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Writing – Industry over a course

    • Field Interviews

Quick & Limited

Easy Police Narratives

    • Discipline report?

Narratives after Training Exercises

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Police Reports

Individual Rewrite

Provide Exemplars

Small Group Rewrite

Small Group Review

Individual Attempt

Field Interview

Notes

Who, When, Where, What

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Writing – over a course

Short Answer

    • Rephrase the question

Longer Answers

    • 3 parts answers

Research Project

    • Wix
    • Traditional Paper
    • Wide open topics

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Other Writing

Mock Trial

Socratic Seminar

Debate

Creative Reply

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Reading Culture

Collaborate on Rules

Share brain is a muscle – everyone gets stronger

Talk about reading strategies

Consider allowing earbuds

Adjust lighting

Allow getting comfortable

Talk about ENJOYING reading

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Reading

Start small

Review for vocab

Vocab cheat sheets

Build over time

Books for interest

Books w independent chapters

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Assignments

Always have a reading assignment

Journals are fine – write Sparks Notes

Key – think about what they have read

Better readers will be frustrated

Stop – Who? What? Where? Etc.

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When?

START OF CLASS

GAPS IN CLASS

BREAKS BETWEEN ACTIVITIES

END OF CLASS

AFTER A TEST

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Places to Add Literacy

Intro

Wiki/Blog

What will we learn?

Vocab

Presentation

Articles

Text

Top 5

Jigsaw

Practice

Use manual

Review guidebooks

Narrative

Plan of action

Review

Articles

Wiki/Blog review

Test

Open response

Use guides/manuals

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