CNN 10

About halfway through my placement in my placement classroom, my host teacher started
doing something very interesting to start off each day. She replaced the typical daily math
warm-up problems with having students instead watch CNN 10. CNN 10 is a 10 minute long
news show designed for kids and teens. Due to the wide age gap in the audience, the anchor,
Carl Azuz, sometimes chooses stories that my class found a little boring or my teacher had to
skip over due to it being too inappropriate for our students. But, overall, the stories did a great
job of making students aware of what’s going on in our world, along with stories about new and
interesting technology being developed. After the news is over, students know to circle up, my
teacher joins the circle, and then the class has a discussion about what they learned and found
interesting. This is such a great way to get students interested in the news, also teaching them
how to pay attention to find information to discuss. I would love to incorporate this into my future
class!

Here is a teacher written blog that gives a more in-depth description of CNN 10 and its benefits
in the classroom: https://www.theliterarymaven.com/2015/01/you-oughta-know-about.html

Here is the anchor, Carl Azuz, during one of his broadcasts.