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How to Prepare Expert Teachers of Reading
No full textKnowledge is important in any endeavor. It’s what separates novices from experts. Experts have more of it. Novices have less of it. Expert teachers have four kinds of knowledge:(a) content knowledge – knowledge of what they’re teaching. This would be math, if you’re a math teacher. Science if you’re a science teacher. And everything if you’re an elementary education teacher. (b) pedagogical knowledge. This is knowledge of basic teaching strategies such as discovery learning, question-asking, discussions, inquiry learning, and cooperative learning.(c) pedagogical content knowledge – This is knowledge of teaching strategies for specific content areas. In reading, this would reading methods. You have strategies for fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, etc.(d) and knowledge of learners and learning. You know how humans learn and develop. This is the ed psych stuff – which is the basis of all things. To move from novice to expert is a rather simple thing. Simply increase knowledge in all four areas. It’s not that complicated
Government Documents Constitution Day Display, August-September 2023
Get PDFBibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Minnesota State University, Mankato.https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/lib-services-govdoc-display-constitution/1020/thumbnail.jp
What Does a Rooster Say?
Get PDF“What Does a Rooster Say?” Growing up in Vietnam’s K–12 public school system, I found the mandatory textbooks overwhelming, a sentiment shared by my peers. As an educator and designer, I noticed a need for improvement in Vietnam’s current textbooks. Despite numerous reforms, they still don’t effectively cater to their primary audience: the students. The newer textbooks, especially for first graders, are visually dense and complex, causing concern among researchers, parents, and educators. This led to the idea of creating an alternative. Reflecting on the older textbooks from the \u2780s and \u2790s, while not perfect, they were more user-friendly with simpler illustrations and content. These served as the foundation for “Em và Tiếng Việt.” The show’s illustration draws inspiration from Vietnamese folk art woodblock prints, specifically Đông Hồ. The content and characters are rooted in Vietnamese and Eastern imagery. “Em và Tiếng Việt” aims to be a reader-friendly textbook for children, focusing on engaging visuals and improved content. The illustrations and subject matter resonate with Vietnamese children and are designed to complement other teaching materials. The information is presented in a logical order, introducing new concepts only after they’ve been introduced on previous pages. The layout is intentionally simple, allowing space for breathing and ensuring easy navigation for young readers, avoiding overwhelming them
Seeking Translation
Get PDFI am interested in how we navigate and understand the world around us. As we move through life, meeting different people and having new experiences, we develop a language of self-interpretation that allows us to communicate intangibles such as ideas, values, and emotions. Within this body of work, I explore this idea of translating self, highlighting the reinterpretation of memory and emotion through color and narrative. Seeking Translation includes woodcut, intaglio, silkscreen, and stone lithography prints. The multiplicity of printmaking allows me to experiment with the effects of different colors and juxtaposition of different materials and mediums. And while the methods are diverse, I find consistency within the reworking and layering of imagery. This compounding of elements and slow evolution parallels the depth and complexity of the individual. Like life, these prints serve as journey through which new ideas are realized and deeper understanding is achieved
“Born Again:” Narrating the Mental Health Journeys of Religious Exiters
Get PDFReligious exit–also known as disaffiliation, deconversion, or apostasy–is a growing phenomenon in the United States with significant individual and social consequences. In this review, I consult existing literature to clarify the relationship between the process of religious exit and the mental health of exiters I organize this literature using Ebaugh’s (1988) role-exit model to frame exiting religion as a multi-stage process of role-identity disruption, exit, anomie, and reestablishment. I situate each stage as characterized by changes in mental health, in alignment with psychological theories of the impact of self-construction and self-concept on mental health symptoms. The literature suggests that, beginning with tension between a religious system and the individual, exiters undergo a psychologically and emotionally fraught process of role-identity transformation typified by a sequence of pre-exit strains, a turning point at which exit occurs, immediate psychological and social aftermath, and a subsequent lifetime process of reconstruction. Using evidence from exiters’ narratives, I argue that the conflict inherent in the process of religious exit catalyzes psychological distress, but that exit itself provides a mechanism for role-identity reset that relieves many of the negative mental health effects associated with religious strain
Rene Otero, University of Texas at Austin, 2023 Impromptu Speaking Event
No full textVideo of Rene Otero’s presentation for the final round of the Impromptu Speaking event for the 2023 American Forensic Association National Speech Tournament hosted by Santa Ana College
Volume 43, Number 4, December 2023 OLAC Newsletter
Get PDFDigitized December 2023 issue of the OLAC Newsletter
Valid Writing Assessment: Portfolios, Checklists, and Anecdotal Records
No full textSix points: To be of use; however, any assessment system must reflect your values, philosophy, teaching style, and students (Calkins, 1994). In other words, your system needs to be yours. You can’t assess writing effectively using somebody else’s system. Thus, I will present some simple ideas here with the expectation that you will discuss them with your colleagues and then use them to develop your own assessment system for writing. Your assessment system is not a permanent entity. Expect that it will evolve and change over time as you get more knowledge and experience. An effective assessment system utilizes multiple forms of assessment that collect multiple kinds of data. The role of good assessment is to become obsolete – to prepare students to evaluate their own work. Thus, an important part of assessment is to teach students how to assess their own work (Graves, 1992). Students should be involved in the assessment process. The only hard and fast rule about portfolios, checklists, and anecdotal records is that you use them. Other than that, you’re the professional. You know your students. Adopt and adapt all these ideas described here as you see fit
The Importance of Art in the Language Arts
No full textThe language arts is the study of grammar, punctuation, composition, spelling, and speech that’s usually taught as a single subject in elementary and middle school. This chapter is not about this. I’m taking a bit of a different approach. This podcast is about language art (emphasis on ‘language’). Language art is art that uses language to create an aesthetic response. It is the act of putting words together in certain ways to create a certain effect
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 Display
Get PDFBibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Minnesota State University, Mankato.https://cornerstone.lib.mnsu.edu/lib-services-govdoc-display-civilrights/1002/thumbnail.jp