162: Up-Down-Both-Why: A Funds of Feeling Approach to Literature

The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast

Jennifer Gonzalez

Education, Teaching, Instruction, Classroommanagement, Educationreform

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Students often struggle to make meaningful connections to literature and put those connections into words. The Up-Down-Both-Why technique, which starts with how the text makes a student feel, gets much better results. My guest, Sarah Levine, explains how it works.

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0:00.0	This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 162 of the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast.
0:05.9	In this episode we're going to talk about a strategy that helps students develop deeper,
0:10.6	more nuanced responses to literature called up, down, both, why.
0:15.9	Okay, so first off, my voice is going to sound stuffy for this episode and probably the next one,
0:34.4	because I'm currently finishing up a 10-day quarantine with COVID. This has zero relevance to
0:40.4	the topic I'm talking about today and I have a very mild case that basically feels like a cold
0:46.4	that's making me feel pretty tired, but I figured I wouldn't mention it for posterity since this
0:51.9	episode will likely live well beyond 2021. This episode is for the English teachers or for anyone
1:00.0	who's teaching includes having students read literature and then asking them to write a response
1:05.4	to what they read. Response to literature is a big part of what we do in English language arts,
1:11.5	and I know that in my own experience as a middle school English teacher, I often found that part of
1:16.8	the job kind of unsatisfying because my students didn't really know how to dig into the text and talk
1:23.2	about it in really meaningful ways. I suspect that a lot of teachers have had similar frustrations.
1:28.7	My guest today, Stanford University's Sarah Levine, has figured out an approach that does a really
1:35.3	good job of solving this problem. It's a way of having students respond to texts with emotions first,
1:41.8	and she's had some really good success with it already. It's called up down both why. It's easy
1:47.4	to understand and should be very easy to implement and I think you're really going to like it. In today's
1:52.8	conversation we'll go over the basics of how it works, but Sarah has written a really thorough blog post
1:58.8	over on Cult of Pedagogy that describes it in more detail with lots of visuals. To read that,
2:04.1	just go to Cult of Pedagogy.com, click podcast and choose episode 162. Before I play the interview,
2:10.8	I would like to thank National Geographic Education for sponsoring this episode. During a school year
2:16.6	like no other, National Geographic Education is here to offer support with a space to connect,
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