Warm-up

1. Attendance
2. Start with 5-7 minute conversations
   • “START TIME 5 MINUTE CONVERSATION DISCUSS WHATEVER”
3. Vocab Review
   1. ACCESSIBILITY
      1. Left and right hand shapes flat. Nondominant hand held horizontally to the body while dominant hand moves under and out nondominant hand two times.
   2. SCHOOL
      1. Dominant flat hand (handshape), palm down (orientation) above non-dominant palm-up flat hand (location), taps twice on the non-dominant palm (movement).
   3. SUPPORT
      1. Dominant fist or S hand just below non-dominant S hand moves toward dominant fist. Both palms face signer.
   4. BEST
      1. Dominant hand shaped flat, located on chin. Move flat handshape to the side off of face into an A hand shape.
   5. EXPERIENCE
      1.  Dominant “half-5” in front of head side near face brushes down twice.
4. Show students What Deaf Students Want in a Teacher Video
5. Have students take turns and pick one discussion question to answer
6. Use the sentence starters slide to help get things going
   1. What are your thoughts about the video? What did you notice?
      • “VIDEO YOUR THOUGHTS WHAT? YOU NOTICE WHAT?”
   2. Who do you think should teach Deaf children?
      • “DEAF CHILDREN TEACH SHOULD WHO?”
   3. Which language do you think helps Deaf children learn best? Why?
      • “LANGUAGE BEST SUPPORT DEAF CHILDREN? WHY?”
   4. If your child was Deaf which school would you enroll them in?
      • “IF YOUR CHILD DEAF, SCHOOL YOU ENROLL WHICH?”
   5. Do deaf children have the same school experience as hearing children?
      • “DEAF CHILDREN AND HEARING CHILDREN SCHOOL EXPERIENCE SAME?”
7. Game Activity: Sparkle (using education-related signs).
   1. For this game, the lab instructor will sign a word (related to ed.).
      1. “ME SIGN WORD TOPIC rhq-WHAT? EDUCATION”
   2. In a circle, the students will take turns fingerspelling the word, but the students will only be able to fingerspell one letter at a time.
      1. “FINISH FINGERSPELL ONE LETTER (ABC) TAKE TURNS MAKE WORD”
   3. This means if the word was EDUCATION, one student would sign E, the next student would sign D, etc. in a circle. After the whole word is spelled, the next student signs the word SPARKLE.
   4. If a student doesn’t know the word or doesn’t know how to spell it, they are out for the round.
      1. “YOU SIGN DON’T KNOW OUT FOR NOW PLAY AGAIN NEXT WORD”
   5. (For example, if the sign was EDUCATION, but the student didn’t know the sign, they wouldn’t know what letter to do next).
   6. Here’s a list of possible words to use:
      1. Education
      2. Coach
      3. College/University
      4. Elementary
      5. Study
      6. Kindergarten
      7. Institution (Deaf)
      8. Gallaudet

Main Activity

1. Video:
   • Watch 0:00-1:16 (First question) and 3:05-3:40 (TOTAL 2 minutes)
     • “NOW VIDEO WATCH TOPIC WHAT? DEAF EDUCATION” 
2. Deaf Education
   • What were your thoughts about the video? What did you notice?
     • “YOU VIDEO THINK WHAT? NOTICE WHAT?”
   • Who do you think should be teaching Deaf students?
     • “DEAF STUDENTS TEACH SHOULD WHO?”
   • What language helps Deaf/HoH students learn the best? ASL? English? A mix of both?
     • “DEAF LEARN PERSON LANGUAGE LEARN BEST? LAST 3-ASL, ENGLISH, BOTH?” 
   • If your child was Deaf, what type of school would you enroll them in? (There’s no right answer 🙂 )
     • “YOU DEAF CHILD HAVE THEY SCHOOL GO-TO WHICH?”
   • How does a Deaf student’s school experience differ from a hearing kid’s? How is it the same?
     • “DEAF SCHOOL HEARING SCHOOL DIFFERENT SAME HOW?”
3. Teaching hearing people

• • If every hearing person had to know 5 signs, what signs would you teach them?
    • “IF ALL PEOPLE LEARN 5 SIGNS NEED. TEACH 5 SIGNS WHICH?”
  • How can we as hearing people best support Deaf people?
    • “WE HEARING PEOPLE DEAF PEOPLE SUPPORT BEST HOW?”

Wrap-up

1. What’s one new fact you didn’t know before lab?
   • “YOU ONE THING NEW LEARN WHAT?”
2. What was one fact that surprised you?
   • “YOU SURPRISED WHAT?”
3. Was there information you already knew about Deaf Education?
   • “PAST YOU KNOW DEAF EDUCATION WHAT?”
4. Did the facts you learned today coincide with your previous assumptions?
   • “NOW DAY YOU LEARN PAST THOUGHTS SAME DIFFERENT WHICH?”
5. Do you agree or disagree with the current system of Deaf Education? Why or why not?
   • “NOW DEAF EDUCATION YOU AGREE DISAGREE WHICH? WHY?”

End of Lab:

• Sign or show Can-Do statements once more and have students evaluate their confidence
• Encourage students to be honest in their self-evaluation
• Pay attention, and try to use feedback for future labs!