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Valerie Sutton Date: Mon Mar 8, 1999 4:12 pm Subject: Jordan High School Georgia #2 | |
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To: SignWriting List Subject: Re: Web Report #1 From: Cynthia LW Frey Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 19:39:02 EST Cynthia Frey Teacher of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students Jordan Vocational High School Columbus, Georgia Web Report #1 For Participating Teachers 1. Why do you want to learn SignWriting? I teach deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing students a variety of subjects, including ASL. I want to help them develop literacy and improve their fluency in ASL which I feel will impact their education in general. I am in contact with those in the Deaf community and would like them to know of this development. I am a nationally certified interpreter who is active in the policies of the interpreting community here and I would like to share this information with the others in the field. >2. What have been some of your past frustrations when teaching? My students distaste for, and frustration in reading have been a frustration to me. >3. Are you hoping that SignWriting might help? If so, in what way? I have heard and seen evidence that ASL is the way to teach English. I feel SignWriting will help them improve their skills in both languages. >4. The SignWriting Teacher's Forum has a free web page for you and your students, to use in anyway you wish, just as long as it relates to SignWriting. How would you like to use your web page? Not knowing exactly how this works, I am not sure but I am excited at the prospect of our students making contacts "out there" and being a part of this new phenomenon. >5. Please tell us about your school and your classroom. How many students will be learning SignWriting? Our school has about 1,000 students in grades 9-12. We have fourteen students who are deaf or hard of hearing. This is the first year we have offered ASL and this class has included eight hearing students. Hopefully this is just the start, but of these students six should return next year and be automatic communication contacts for these and our rising ninth grade deaf and hard of hearing students. I will begin using SignWriting as a way to instruct the ASL students and as a way to write about English in ASL. The students' writing assignments, short simple ones at first, could be in ASL and then be translated to English. Cynthia Frey Teacher of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Students ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie :-) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Valerie Sutton SignWriting https://www.SignWriting.org The DAC, Deaf Action Committee for SW Center For Sutton Movement Writing an educational nonprofit organization Box 517, La Jolla, CA, 92038-0517, USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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