Then by Friday the students were to write an additional paragraph but in a quiz manner and then she had another student read the essay out loud checking for the proper content from what they had just studied.</P> | * | * | * 11. | * Assess Leslie's teaching using the effective teaching characteristics outlined in Figure 11.1. * Your Answer: | * First of all Leslie is an English teacher and she presented two English paragraphs to her students, one being written with proper English grammar and the second paragraph written with in proper grammar. She then broke down each sentence and picked different students to explain what part of the sentence was wrong. Second, I think she really cared
Theory Into Practice-Trends and Issues in Reading Instruction Upon review and reflection of this reading course concerning trends and issues, I am now more than ever determined to stick with my current beliefs regarding reading and young children. As an early childhood educator I believe that learning to read is developmental. A few students come to me reading while others barely know the letters of the alphabet. I also believe that the knowledge of knowing what is truly appropriate for a five year old can only assist a teacher in knowing if there is a developmental delay or a possible learning disability. A successful teacher of beginning readers develop comprehension skills and helps to expose them to wide range of texts to build background knowledge.
Sometimes students will just copy down notes and not comprehend what they mean. If this ever becomes an issue, you should talk to your teacher, a tutor, or someone who understands the concepts and can clarify them to you. Doing your homework is the next step towards success. If you have taken good notes, you can use them to your advantage on homework. Completing homework assignments will help prepare you for quizzes and tests that might be ahead.
During the class on reading and the brain we discussed what reading was and the five areas of reading. The brain is not naturally able to read; we must train and practice it to be able to derived meaning from text. Based on this statement alone I can now see how reading and literacy are similar. During the class on comprehension and reading and writing the notes and videos really helped me tie both literacy and reading together. When we watch the videos the teachers were thinking out loud and discussing the little voice in her head that tells her things while she is reading, like “oh I have no idea what I just read” or “hum I wonder who this person is?” or “wow that’s neat!”.
In fact when teachers provide regular weekly homework it allows students to get a better understanding of the topic issued in class. When students fully grasp the topic in the homework they are more likely to participate in oral discussion during class. Students will have the confidence to raise their hands up in class when they have done their homework as opposed to those who have not. Homework can also be used as a form of reviewer for upcoming test or exams. This is helpful for students because most teachers would reflect on the homework for test or exam questions.
“Since prediction is an important strategy used in the reading process, the teacher can demonstrate this strategy by stopping at significant points [in the story] and asking, ‘what do you think will happen next? As children internalize this question, they develop an anticipatory attitude toward print, making predictions as they read or listen to a text in order to generate meaning as the story unfolds”. Circular and cyclical plot stories are excellent resources for introducing student prediction strategies because of their repetitive nature. Some students call this “going out the same door you came in”. This repetition encourages students to predict the events in the story, and to predict these events with more success.
I tended to learn more effectively by taking notes in class and rewriting them later. Later in my years of high school I highlight passages in my readings and write them down on paper. I read over the notes repetitiously in order to grasp the information. In addition to being hands on learner, I am a bottom-up learner. I am a very detail-oriented individual who prefers to have a rock solid foundation built before I proceed to new challenges.
Standardized tests involve administration of instructions, questions and scoring to all individuals in a similar manner. The test aims at comparing students’ knowledge in a given class, region or country. Program tests involve the use of teacher-made trial to determine how well scholars understand a particular content. Criterion-referenced tests compare student performance against a set standard while essay tests require students to give answers to several questions demonstrating their ability to recall, organize and interpret information in a logically integrated manner. On the other hand, informal assessments evaluate a student’s progress and performance individually.
Teaching Students to Count Rationally from Ten to Twenty Although most children begin elementary school with some knowledge of numbers from their everyday life experiences, learning numbers and learning to count is a process that must be prioritized for kindergarten and first grade students. The goal of this instruction is for students to become rational counters; a student who can assign a name to a number value in the proper order (Reys, et al., 2012, p. 141). There are four principles that can be taught in order to guide students to become rational counters at an early point in their education, which will form the basis for all other mathematics instruction throughout their educations. These principles are one to one correspondence, the stable order rule, the order irrelevance rule, and the cardinality rule. For the remainder of this essay, steps for teaching these principles as well as examples will be explored, on the basis of teaching ten first graders, who can already rationally count to ten, learn to count rationally to fifteen.
HOW I CAN IMPROVE MY STUDIES FOR GRADE NINE I can improve my studies for grade nine by building good study habits, work harder on your assignments and talk to your teacher(s) about my grades. I can start doing this now in my second term of school. I can build good study habits like review the lesson plan prior to class, take my quick notes neatly in class, if you read the material before class you will have an idea of what doesn't make sense and concentrate of your teacher's explanation, don't make notes on what's already in the book, it wastes your time and attention, if it's repeated more than twice it's going to be on the test and plan your breaks in the short and long term. I should skim through the textbooks to review the lesson. I take quick notes, but they are not clear so I should start colour coding my notes.