How my curriculum different from other ESL Hip Hop lessons online
What makes Hip Hop curriculum different from other curriculum online? My curriculum is discursive, material driven, and experiential. It involves implicit and explicit language teaching. It allows for differentiated instruction with both ESL/EFL and youth at different levels. It provides for the building of a language community within the classroom, by having the instructor provide trust-building activities, offer first and third-person stories and life experiences through poetry and Hip Hop, to create a 3 rd safe space for learning and addressing the complex relationships between identity, language, and Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs. It doesn’t just expose learners to texts from artists or only their lyrics, instead it involves them in the experiential practices of Hip Hop in both drawing from, and forming identity, language play, dialogue, and ciphering in intercultural communications. It doesn’t just filter and censor their favorite artists, it s...