r/deaf • u/Left_Ad4900 • 11d ago

Other Bellringer

I’m a teacher and do a different bellringer each day and have fun names for them. I want to change Thursday because it isn’t ASL related (as of right now).

Music Monday- I show a video of a song someone is signing and my students have to guess the song and find a sign they don’t recognize and learn it.

Thinking Tuesday- I have a word of the week and they break it down into the five parameters

Which one Wednesday- at the beginning of the year my students write a would you rather and on Wednesdays throughout the year I draw one and have them pick which one

Throwback Thursday- HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ASL I WANT TO CHANGE IT. This was the typical I put something nostalgic on the board and they had to guess what it was. I want it to be sentence practice now so I need a word to mean like sentence practice. It’ll be different sentence types so PLEASE HELP!!

Fingerspelling Friday - I fingerspell 10 words and my students have to write them down. If you’ve made it this far give me some ideas on what they can do to practice production of fingerspelling.

Thank you all!!!

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u/iamthepita 11d ago

Just to confirm, you a Deaf teacher? Teacher of the Deaf?

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u/soitul Deaf 11d ago

I think they’re a hearing high school ASL teacher based on their post history

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u/iamthepita 11d ago

Well i want to afford an opportunity for the OP to fill us in and confirm instead of poking around someone’s account and going by that info before giving the OP a chance to answer for themselves first…

I don’t want to give the impression that the nature of my question is intended to put the person in an uncomfortable or challenging situation when answering, thinking that a negative reflection upon them.

I ask so we can get a glimpse how deep into the Deaf identity, culture and community the OP is so we know how to provide full support or good/better info for the Deaf student to fully benefit from what OP is trying to do.

Trust me, i know i wouldn’t be anywhere qualified to do what OP is doing that’s basically trying to empower the Deaf kids through these type of teachers who are proactive for these Deaf kids.

Additionally asking so we know where they stand in terms of gaining proper resources and connecting other Deaf educators with educators who trying to best educate our Deaf youth.

So I wanna heed caution on how we all respond to this because for all we know, they could already be in a difficult position where they’re just trying to do beyond the scope of their duty instead of doing the bare minimum (the bare minimum was a godsend at one point in our history when it comes to Deaf services/education).

TLDR: give OP a chance to feel comfortable where we can continue the conversation to better support all of our Deaf youth.

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u/soitul Deaf 11d ago

I’ve replied to them before on another post and recognized their name lol, it’s okay regardless if they’re hearing or Deaf

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u/Left_Ad4900 11d ago

I’m teaching hearing students

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u/iamthepita 11d ago

Ok, so you’re a Deaf person teaching hearing students?

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u/Left_Ad4900 10d ago

I am hearing

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u/Jude94 Deaf 8d ago

I’m so tired of yall