L.E.A.D.E.R. Literacy Plan:
Danny Glover, an actor, producer and humanitarian once said that, “If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children’s mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.” Literacy in the educational environment is one of the most important and key aspects of student learning achievement. Literacy of a student can depend on their readiness for the material, their interest in the subject or topic area, and their preferred learning style. Literacy is the ability to read and write with understanding. Literacy is not only the capability of reading, writing, talking and listening, but understanding and comprehending it as well. All students have background experience, prior knowledge and different skill levels, but they must know how much and how far they can go with all that they understand and are aware of.
Danny Glover, an actor, producer and humanitarian once said that, “If we talk about literacy, we have to talk about how to enhance our children’s mastery over the tools needed to live intelligent, creative, and involved lives.” Literacy in the educational environment is one of the most important and key aspects of student learning achievement. Literacy of a student can depend on their readiness for the material, their interest in the subject or topic area, and their preferred learning style. Literacy is the ability to read and write with understanding. Literacy is not only the capability of reading, writing, talking and listening, but understanding and comprehending it as well. All students have background experience, prior knowledge and different skill levels, but they must know how much and how far they can go with all that they understand and are aware of.
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Professional Readings
To help us to understand what is going on in the educational field better, we were asked to read article weekly. Below you will see that for each article we wrote a brief summary and then applied the article to our future classroom incorporating the new strategies.
Topic: The Demographic Imperative
Garia, Eugene E., Jensen, Bryant T., & Scribner, Kent P. "The Demographic Imperative." Educational Leadership (2009), 8-13.
Summary: Garcia, Jensen and Scribner explain to us the perspective of where language minorities reside in the United States. Based off family income, parent education levels, parent English language proficiency, and even the mother's marital status, are all components to an educational risk in certain demographic areas. The authors, then explain the need for a collaboration to reduce the gap of English in-proficiency as well as creating programs to help students meet the challenge of learning English.
Classroom Recommendation: There will always be an ELL or LEP student in your class depending on the type of school you teach at and where the school is located. Teaching in Bronx, you are more likely to have a majority of these students due to such a large population of Hispanic and other cultural immigrants. This is where the families and school must work together to shape the academic performance of their English language learners. Teachers must be aware of student's strengths and weaknesses in the literacy world. It is there that they will only have the chance to succeed academically.
Topic: Differentiating for Tweens
Wormeli, Rick. "Differentiating for Tweens." Educational Leadership (2006), 14-19.
Summary: This article explains the 5 principles or strategies on differentiated instruction. Children between the ages of 10 and 15 are considered "tweens." The five principles encompass the teaching of developmental needs to young adolescents. There is also the treatment of student academic struggle as a strength. That each student has a different learning style or method. We , as teachers must play to their strengths.
Classroom Recommendation: In the ages of puberty and change, "tweens" are undergoing a physiological and psychological change. They are trying to find who they are and to find their strengths. It is a difficult and most vulnerable time, in which parents and teachers have to play a critical part in their academic learning and life learning. As a future teacher, it is my responsibility and my abilities to give a child positive feedback, facilitate them to work hard, expose them to new ideas and methods of learning, while also playing to their learning strengths.
To help us to understand what is going on in the educational field better, we were asked to read article weekly. Below you will see that for each article we wrote a brief summary and then applied the article to our future classroom incorporating the new strategies.
Topic: The Demographic Imperative
Garia, Eugene E., Jensen, Bryant T., & Scribner, Kent P. "The Demographic Imperative." Educational Leadership (2009), 8-13.
Summary: Garcia, Jensen and Scribner explain to us the perspective of where language minorities reside in the United States. Based off family income, parent education levels, parent English language proficiency, and even the mother's marital status, are all components to an educational risk in certain demographic areas. The authors, then explain the need for a collaboration to reduce the gap of English in-proficiency as well as creating programs to help students meet the challenge of learning English.
Classroom Recommendation: There will always be an ELL or LEP student in your class depending on the type of school you teach at and where the school is located. Teaching in Bronx, you are more likely to have a majority of these students due to such a large population of Hispanic and other cultural immigrants. This is where the families and school must work together to shape the academic performance of their English language learners. Teachers must be aware of student's strengths and weaknesses in the literacy world. It is there that they will only have the chance to succeed academically.
Topic: Differentiating for Tweens
Wormeli, Rick. "Differentiating for Tweens." Educational Leadership (2006), 14-19.
Summary: This article explains the 5 principles or strategies on differentiated instruction. Children between the ages of 10 and 15 are considered "tweens." The five principles encompass the teaching of developmental needs to young adolescents. There is also the treatment of student academic struggle as a strength. That each student has a different learning style or method. We , as teachers must play to their strengths.
Classroom Recommendation: In the ages of puberty and change, "tweens" are undergoing a physiological and psychological change. They are trying to find who they are and to find their strengths. It is a difficult and most vulnerable time, in which parents and teachers have to play a critical part in their academic learning and life learning. As a future teacher, it is my responsibility and my abilities to give a child positive feedback, facilitate them to work hard, expose them to new ideas and methods of learning, while also playing to their learning strengths.