SM705
Passcode to Literacies through PSL/Poetry as a Second Language: The Semajian Method™
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Time
Varies from 1 hour lecture to extended consultation
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Skill Reinforcement
interdisciplinary/integrative learning and lesson planning, reading comprehension, test taking skills, writing
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Utilization
Across curriculum, Multidisciplinary
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Education Levels
Service Teachers, Teachers, Administrators, Policy Makers
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Description
PSL/POETRY AS A SECOND LANGUAGE: THE SEMAJIAN METHOD™ is an interdisciplinary /integrative practice and pedagogy that dissolves obsolete paradigms while synthesizing new ways of thinking, being, and learning. It also serves as an evaluation tool. The method is technology, represented by nine integrative, reflexive frameworks which utilize the enzymatic function of poetry as a precious power tool.
Integrative thinking yields integrative curriculum, which is relatively new to our current knowledge industry, but the concept is ancient, and valuable to both academics and species survival. In our high-tech Artificial Intelligence driven global world, integrative thinking provides a myriad of receptors that elevate and enhance our abilities to absorb and metabolize intellectual data, and thus synthesize such data into thought, into connectivity, the mechanics of a problem solving, creative being.
In 2002, the integrative processes of my pedagogy allowed my 7-month consultation with a Detroit charter school, Timbuktu Academy of Science and Technology, Gloria House, PhD, Principal, to raise MEAP scores from statistically negligible to the award-winning status of Golden Apple recipient!
My thirty-year practice as a literary artist and an interdisciplinary educational consultant has taught me what you already know. Learners, whether elementary or university, whether in an institution, or enjoying an impromptu gathering on the sidewalk of life, assimilate information into understanding when they are intrigued. Nothing excites learning more than a lesson that makes sense, is relatable, and relevant.
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Insight
"Listening to Semaj brought joy, physical and spiritual to me… kind of a cathartic experience. The comingling of different worlds, the tangible and intangible, had the power to calm me. Her voice, her words and the spirit of sharing managed to lower my pressure. I had been struggling for a change. I felt light and conscious of all my being.”
Otrude Moyo, PhD,
Indiana University-South Bend, Director of School of Social Work Carnegie African Diaspora Fellow/Associate Professor