Critical Literacy – VIDEO
Today’s students live in the information age. They are bombarded with vast amounts of information in a variety of forms and must become critical consumers and users of information in order to be successful in school and beyond. Critical literacy allows students to be active and challenging participants as they respond to texts of all types.
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High-Yield Strategies to Improve Student Learning
Today’s classrooms are filled with learners whose strengths are as diverse as their needs. In order to teach all students effectively to build on strengths while zeroing in on areas that need more attention teachers must have an extensive repertoire of strategies.
Introduction
Part 1: Ongoing Assessment and Feedback (Literacy)
Part 2: Teacher Moderation (Literacy)
Part 3: The Gradual Release of Responsibility Model (Literacy)
Part 4: Teaching Non-Fiction Writing (Literacy)
Part 5: Using Texts of All Types (Literacy)
Part 6: Critical Literacy (Literacy)
Part 1: Ongoing Assessment and Feedback (Numeracy)
Part 2: Teacher Moderation (Numeracy)
Part 3: Three-part Problem-Solving Lesson (Numeracy)
Part 4: Use of Learning Materials Appropriate to the Mathematics (Numeracy)
Part 5: Developing a Mathematics Learning Community (Numeracy)
Conclusion
Kindergarten Matters
Kindergarten Matters: Re-imagining Literacy and Mathematics Throughout the Day
Introduction
Learning is ... a shift in thinking and action
Learning is ... co-constructed inquiry
Learning is ... expressing and communicating theories that give meaning to events and objects in the world
Learning is ... a process of constructing, testing and re-constructing theories
Learning is ... building relationships between contexts and perspectives
Kindergarten Matters: Intentional Play-based Learning
Kindergarten Matters: Planned, Purposeful, and Playful Talk
Teaching for Understanding: Summarization – VIDEO
There is a growing body of research and evidence-based findings that identify summarization as one of the essential skills that improves reading comprehension, writing proficiency and student achievement in general. The skill of summarization needs to be explicitly taught, in all subject areas in order for students to effectively create and interpret increasingly complex texts.
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Word Study in Action – VIDEO
The students you will see are learning to take a critical stance and developing skills…