International Literacy Day

To learn more about a teachers point of view in a classroom I held an interview with a teacher that I will refer to as "Amy" for the purpose of this assignment. For this interview I sent her the questions by email a few days before and she filled them out and sent them back to me. While conducting the interview, I brought the questions and we went over them accordingly. That being said, Amy has a master 's degree in early childhood education and a reading endorsement. She has been teaching for…

where “new literacies” are the focus of learning. New literacies include various literacy forms made possible by digital technology. Today’s K-12 students are using these modalities to learn, connect, and collaborate with each other. The students are…

Standards of Literacy and Numeracy in Australia Literacy and Numeracy standards can vary from place to place. Moving from one country to another has helped me to understand the differences and to be conscious of Australian standards. These standards are important in this country to both teachers and students. This is clearly demonstrated in the volume of testing that is performed, ranging from NAPLAN to the required test that a pre-service teacher must complete in order to enter the workforce…

knowledge of some sorts in which it is possible for them to build on. Emergent mathematics is how we use to describe how children construct their maths knowledge. The principle of emergent mathematics is that children should be exposed to maths from the day they are born despite their age. Children are taught to use their previous knowledge to solve a maths problem. This helps children to understand how the problem has been solved and not given the answer in which children have not learnt how to…

When I first finished high school, I thought I was finished with English. English was not one of my strongest subjects or well, I thought it was not. Being able to get away with procrastination, I felt like I did not need to worry much about it. I was wrong to do so, and English 104 open my eyes to how much work I really need. Leaving everything to the last minute limited a lot of things, for example the revision of each piece, I did not get that done until maybe Thanksgiving break. I became so…

describes his pathway to freedom, and how becoming literate changed his perspective on life. Fredrick Douglass’s experience can be compared to many other authors; such as Lao-Tzu, Howard Gardner, Machiavelli, Plato, and Isak Dinesen. While acquiring his literacy, Douglass faced many obstacles, first off, his motivation to be free; followed…

West argues that one cannot cure Nihilism but rather tame it through love and care. However, equally important to the taming of nihilism is literature. Nihilism is a product of the desensitization of oppression that one faces every day. One starts to believe the negative images and words of their oppressors. Nihilism is an autonomous cycle that continues from negative ideas and form more negative ideas. According to West, “A major contemporary strategy for holding the nihilistic…

influence our literacy and learning skills. In this paper I will firstly discuss what is literacy and learning process and tools to acquire it. Secondly, I will evaluate if cellphones are easy to use, mobile, interactive, widespread and if they are effective on our focus and concentration. Finally, I will conclude whether or not all cellphones meet our criteria and if they are helping us to ease our learning process in order to improve our literacy. Classically, everyone knows literacy…

critical literacy and its place in the classroom. Many new initiatives have begun to take place in education surrounding literacy and effective practices to better prepare our students for college or the workforce. After checking my state’s department of education website, I failed to find specific information about critical literacy. With limited knowledge on the topic, several definitions were explored. From these definitions, I will conclude with a usable definition of critical literacy for…

or withhold literacy—and gain advantage by it in some way” (166). Bob Gibson didn’t become a full-time teacher until he was in his mid-40s, and his experiences on that career path highlight both the benefits and the hindrances a sponsor can provide. Those experiences also demonstrate how integral a mixture of positive and negative sponsorship can be. Bob calls his parents his “first teachers” and therefore his most obvious sponsors. They encouraged his earliest strides toward literacy, as they…