I’ve been hammering SPY all year. For the “Y” I tell students that the main two ways to explain “Y” the document is written is to explain with historical context or perspective. The example I try to use for historical context is if there’s a picture of someone in a mask in 2020. The historical context is how the Covid-19 pandemic would essentially cause people to wear masks. Covid is the historical context. Perspective basically covers audience/purpose/point of view. I have a lot of bell works I posted last summer on the Facebook pages with docs, prompts, and sourcing with the SPY method. The issue I’m coming across is students just skipping sourcing all together-which is frustrating because I think this method is much easier than HIPP before.

My WHAP colleague and I have been talking about transitioning to SPY fully next year... this just confirms it :)

Maybe I missed it, but how would I use the prompt part of spy, if I am just giving a basic document to look at, for example the picture of the Tenement by Jacob Riis, the picture that we probably all use of the 6-7 guys crowded in the one room

Hi heilmer I’m not a teacher. I’m a high school student who is thinking about becoming a teacher. Would you recommend becoming a high school teacher, in 2023? I’ve heard mixed things about teaching, I hear you get bad pay and have to deal with rowdy kids/kids that don’t want to be there. Any advice is greatly appreciated.

(Already talking with lightning speed): "For this next one I'm going to speed up".....! Seriously, good stuff. Giggled at "HAPPY analysis? More like Crappy analysis"

My teacher never taught me this

😂 *promosm*