Throughout our lives we are taught different stories that can affect us dramatically, either in a positive way or negative way. During our childhood we read the Tortoise and the Hare, which is a story that taught us the moral, “slow and steady wins the race”. We also read things such as: The Boy Who Cried Wolf, which taught us essentially not to lie, because if you lie enough, you won’t be believed when you tell the truth. These stories taught us valuable lessons growing up, but not only do these children books teach us lessons. As we get older we start reading things known as creation myths in our classes.…
Reading is the foundation of everything “Whether you want to be a reading teacher or not you’re going to be one” says Patty Wagenknecht. She was a language arts teacher for 30 years after that she was on the School Board for 12 years. Patty says she was all over the Pettis county school district, at one point she was in charge of going around making sure that all the teachers had everything they needed to teach appropriately. She would go every summer to find some sort of class or seminar to further her education and get up to date information. “You never really have a summer”…
In the spring of 2015, Katie Dickerson, an 11th grade English teacher at Olney Charter High School, published an article on Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, titled "Reimagining Reading: Creating a Classroom Culture that Embraces Independent Choice Reading". The article discusses the importance of reading and strategies she used to better engage her students with reading more on their own and in class. Throughout a two-year mark, she collected data during the school year and at the end, gave students a questionnaire of how they felt towards these strategies. Today's schools are seeing more children lacking an interest in reading, which is crucial to their intellectual development.…
(1) Encouraging pupils to participate in shared reading and writing activities. The teaching assistant could read to the pupils on a daily basis, this will help pupils learn fluent sounds. This will also help pupils understand how sentences and text can make sense and learn when to pause for full stops, question marks etc. • Sharing books, stories, poems and rhymes to introduce pupils to different literary styles or genres including picture books. This also includes looking at other types of printed materials, e.g. newspapers, magazines, comics, signs.…
Robison clearly embraces technology that fits into the Universal Design for Learning framework. Throughout the forward, Robison’s support of UDL can be split into the three different principles of UDL we learned about in class. These principles are input, output, and engagement. Input is the first principle of UDL. To learn, information must be able to be received by the learner in a way they can understand.…
Learning is a part of life that can bring a lot of fortune or keep you in the dust. Education has a big part in our society, it's basically what people use to judge your success. Books are the primary source of learning, books contain knowledge and power. However, in Albert Huxley’s, Brave New World education is very different from our own. In his novel there are three different forms of learning “sleep teaching, book learning, and craft teaching.”…
Reading is fundamental. Learning in school is an ongoing process, which builds on one grade at a time. So, as educators and parents, do you want your students to have the opportunity to think outside the box or stay within the confines of the box? The National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) developed the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI).…
Prior to opening Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum (Vacca et al., 2014), I had never thought of literacy as something that was vital to a high school math class. I was under the assumption that math was comprised of working through problems with students to find the solution, but I now recognize that there is greater knowledge to teach and learn. Chapter one of Content Area Reading opened my eyes to the importance of teaching content literacy. A study conducted by Harold Herder (1964) demonstrates this point, for he found that “students who used ‘study guides’ to read a physics text significantly outperformed those students who did not use guides to read the content under study”(Vacca, 2014, p. 18). Students who were assisted in understanding how to read the material comprehended a greater amount of what they were reading.…
It is vital that children learn how to read, in order for them to become productive citizens. Reutzel and Cooter (2013, p. 7) assert that it is impossible for a person to live a productive, happy and healthy life without the ability to read. Reading is defined by Mesmer and Griffith (2005-06, p. 367) as the ability to recognise words and understand the meaning of both individual words, and the sentences they form, thereby drawing meaning from text. However, Reutzel and Cooter (2013, p. 9) argue that, with the introduction of technology, reading has become a multifaceted ability which requires the learning of a complex set of skills, concepts and knowledge which enable a person to understand text presented both on paper and in various digital…
Post 1:Principles for Fair Student Assessment Practices for Education in Canada "Assessment methods should be suited to the backgrounds and prior experiences of students. Assessment methods should be free from bias brought about by student factors extraneous to the purpose of the assessment. Possible factors to consider include culture, developmental stage, ethnicity, gender, socio-economic background, language, special interests, and special needs. Students' success in answering questions on a test or in an oral quiz, for example, should not be dependent upon prior cultural knowledge, such as understanding an allusion to a cultural tradition or value, unless such knowledge falls 5 within the content domain being assessed. All students should be given the same opportunity to display their strengths" All that I…
There are some challenges to hands on and cross-curricular learning, within our activity we came across some areas that could have been developed, Hayes (2010) argues that hands on learning its heavily resourced. We agreed with this as the amount of resources we had available were limited. We also didn’t ensure we had planned for a child with a medical need, and therefore had to re arrange the activity a quarter of the way through the lesson to ensure she could join in. One key area that we identified was that children became more involved with the way the house looked in a creative sense, rather than the scientific reasoning. This challenge is also identified by Jarvis (2009) who expresses that one of the risks to cross-curricular learning is that one subject takes over in response to children’s enthusiasm and interest, this is of a loss to the other subject.…
There is no substitute for activities in a classroom that require your hands. (Cleaver). Ideas like this show just how important these activities are, especially for a student’s cognitive learning. A classroom must be focused on interactive activities rather than having an over reliance on testing. The best way students get the most out of what they are being taught is by actually doing what they learn and applying it accordingly.…
Annotated Bibliography Alexie, Sherman. “A Good Story.” The St. Martin’s Guide to Writing. Eds. Rise B. Alexrod, Charles R. Cooper.…
Introduction to Reggio Emilia approach and Montessori method The Reggio Emilia approach emphasises on building relationships, respecting each child and the learning the power of the environment. The Montessori method, is based on self-directed learning and hands-on activities. History and significant features of the approaches The Reggio Emilia approach was developed by psychologist Loris Malaguzzi, together with the parents in the villages around Reggio Emilia in Italy after world war II. After the war, people thought children needed a different learning approach. It was believed that children’s personalities form in their early years of development.…
Reading is the base of every child’s education. A child has to learn to read to get through life. Reading is used in every subject of school and is even used after school. Since it is the base how teachers build on it is very important and can make or break a child’s education. A child who is taught to love reading will read more and will excel at more things.…