K-W-L (Know, Want to Know, Learned) Description K-W-L (Ogle, 1986) is an instructional reading strategy that is used to guide students through a text. Students begin by brainstorming everything they Know about a topic. Concept driven learning Some ‘big ideas’ about concept driven learning: (From this week’s little #pypchat on Twitter) The world is changing. Knowledge is changing. The ability to view the world with a more flexible mind is invaluable. The Differentiator Try Respondo! → ← Back to Byrdseed.com How To Compile Your Holiday Videos Into A Cool Movie Trailer With iMovie [Mac] You have lots of short videos from your weekend vacation and you want to compile and share the clips. But you have barely had the time to do it. What can you do? Reading Comprehension Strategies: Poster Set K-5 Subtotal does include shipping. Learning-Focused Solutions, Inc. will accept returns of products within 30 days of receipt of shipment for a refund. Learning-Focused Solutions, Inc. will accept returns of products within 45 days of receipt of shipment for an exchange or store credit. All products must be unopened, unused, and still in their plastic wrap.
11 Alternatives to "Round Robin" (and "Popcorn") Reading Round robin reading (RRR) has been a classroom staple for over 200 years and an activity that over half of K–8 teachers report using in one of its many forms, such as popcorn reading. RRR’s popularity endures despite the evidence that the practice is ineffective for its stated purpose: enhancing fluency, word decoding, and comprehension. Cecile Somme makes a good point in Popcorn Reading: The Need to Encourage Reflective Practice: “Popcorn reading is one of the sure-fire ways to get kids who are already hesitant about reading to really hate reading.” Facts About Round Robin Reading In RRR, students read orally from a common text, one child after another, while the other students follow along in their copies of the text.
Eight habits of highly effective 21st ce We hear a lot about the 21st century learner – but what about the 21st century teacher? Andrew Churches investigates what makes them succeed. What are the characteristics we would expect to see in a successful 21st century educator? Towards alternative lifelong learning(s): what Freire can still teach us Judith Walker, Doctoral Candidate [1] Educational Studies, University of British Columbia I am hopeful, not out of mere stubbornness, but out of an existential, concrete imperative (Freire, 1999, p.8) Introduction In the first edition of the Rizoma Freireano, McLaren and Jaramillo (2008) contributed an article calling for ‘alternative globalizations’. In this paper, the authors firmly reject the inevitability of a global neoliberal capitalism, which has come to dominate our understandings of the nature of globalization, and instead put forward the alternative ideals of ‘critical globalization studies’ and ‘critical globalization pedagogy’.
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