Next month, at the beginning of the school year in South America, I will be starting a year long blended coaching relationship with the Asocación Escolar Goethe, The German School in Buenos Aires. I will be working with a small cohort of educators to coach them in” learning how to learn”, the “now” literacies, documenting for learning and peer coaching.
[I am extremely excited, since the school is MY high school. I graduated with the Bachillerato en Sciencias y letras (Argentinean High School Diploma) and the German Abitur (German High School Diploma).]
My graduate degree in Education was completed in the US, which is also the educational system that I have worked in and with my entire adult life. In preparation of the work ahead, I am sprucing up my German and Spanish vocabulary in the educational content area around modern literacies and competencies.
I chose to combine my sketchnoting practice of typography with my educational keyword research of German terms.
An observation worth mentioning, especially to World Language teachers and students, is that the time spent in sketching and arranging the words, seemed to better cement the words in my mind and allowed for better recall.
I have been inspired by your posts about sketchnoting. I have always found that the best way for my to study is to make my own notes from what I understand and add drawings, arrows, colors, different fonts. For Christmas, Santa brought me my new 53 pencil. I am excited to play around and see how to implement it in the educational environment.
Hi Silvia,
I work in an international school in Shanghai China. We had an 11 year old Japanese student join us this academic year with ‘hello’ & ‘my name is Remi’ being all the english she could speak. Our EAL teachers do an amazing job with students like her and with her perseverance she has in these past few months moved from 0 to a year 3 students vocabulary level. I am going to share your blog post with my EAL teachers team to give them this amazing ammunition to take their student learning to a higher level. This tool will also be very useful for some of our difficult cases where there is very low motivation to learn on the part of the students.
I will also share this with our chinese teachers as this is a great tool for them to use in their chinese studies. Using typography with chinese characters will make the sketch note look like a piece of art! What fun!
I would also like to ask you which app do you use to create this sketch note with typography? Thanks a ton. You inspire me always!
Cheers.
@Amita I use the Paper app on the iPad by Fiftythree.
Thanks Silvia!