Finding what is most helpful for meeting the goals set out in the standards may be difficult for a new teacher. Setting high standards and clear goals for students help set them up for their future, make them feel valued and have a goal to reach for. Close-Reading is a careful and purposeful way of reading that help the students to actually comprehend what they are reading and in turn makes reading more desirable. Additionally text-based evidence aides in the understanding and comprehension by providing students with well structured and purposeful text. There are so many times in my life I wish I could go back to my early education years and pay closer attention to what I was being taught.
Devin Thomas MAT-144 April 22, 2015 VanDerLinden Project A-Mission Trip Education is the foundation children and young adults need to have a bright future. The goal of this mission trip would be to build better school with enough rooms so it isn’t crowded, desks, chairs, books, and white boards. The children in the 0-14 age group will be able to learn faster and retain more of what they learned because those years are the most vital years for learning. This mission will be held in Micronesia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, which are places with developed areas but also has a lot of undeveloped areas as well. The children will learn math skills as well as reading, writing, life and sports skills amongst other subjects.
Students are ideally native of both languages and integrated together giving them ample opportunities to practice and learn throughout the day. The goals of the program are to include full biliterate proficiencies¸ content-area achievement at or above grade level, and multicultural competencies. (Rodrigruez) Dual Language programs are more beneficial to start in elementary school because students tend to be able to learn a second language faster at a younger age. They are more capable of learning the phonemes (any of the abstract units of the phonetic system of a language that correspond to a set of similar speech sounds (Merriam), morphemes (a distinctive collocation of phonemes (Merriam)) and the syntax of the languages. They are less absorbed and eager to learn.
It also can make it easier than in the past for a student who switches schools, because now schools broadly have to follow a similar curriculum. The national curriculum was introduced to enable assessment, which also helped to compile league tables. League tables (1988 education act) are another change that has helped the education system. League tables are used to compare the academic achievements of different institutions and parents can use them to decide which school they want their child(ren) to go to. Using league tables is a good thing as if you want your child to go to a good school, you can chose the one most suitable with good education and exam results.
This is because the elaborated code is used within textbooks, by teachers and is the language an examiner expects the child to use within their exam. Early socialisation means middle class children are already fluent using the elaborated code meaning they are more likely to succeed. However, Bernstein recognises that working class children fail because schools fail to teach them how to use the elaborated speech code; not because they are culturally deprived. Bereiter and Engelmann claim that the language used in lower class homes is deficient. They described that working class families use gestures, single word sentences and disjointed phrases when communicating.
However, I was surprised to discover that just a few twisting of the words and some changes in the language could do the trick, while saving/and or creating the parent-and-child relationship. This book was aimed primarily at elementary-school-aged kids, but many of the lessons can be applied to toddlers quite easily, or even to adolescents and other adults. How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk provides true examples and confirmed ideas of how parents and teachers can improve their relationships with the children in their lives by improving their communication skills. The book is divided into seven chapters which address common ineffectiveness in communication, and how adults can help the child express the feelings evoked in the situation without acting out (i.e. describe the child’s feelings for him, listen and provide small feedbacks like “oh”, and avoid questioning), and think of the solution to the problem together and follow through instead of expecting the child to do what the adult wants, all the while leaving the child feeling empowered and unpunished.
Cued Speech was desgined to promote literacy in younger kids, and form a way of communication helping your deaf/ HOH child. Infancy is the best time to start introducing a child to language. By cueing as soon as possible with a child, you improve the chances for success in developmental skills. They will be able to read at, or higher than grade level. Along with higher literacy, Cued speech also promotes lip reading, and the use and understanding of speech.
SAT scores are declining. I am convinced that one of the reasons is that the school day and year are too short. Without additional time, it is virtually impossible for students behind grade level -- particularly poor and minority students -- to catch up. Longer school days can lead to fewer crimes committed by young people and a decline in teen pregnancy. An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.
Dr. Charles Ballinger is the executive director of the National Association for Year-Round School and was quoted in an article by Ann Svensen. He stated,” Students retain more when breaks between instruction are shorter, and teachers don’t need to spend much time on review” (Ballinger in Svensen). Ballinger is saying how the year round school system eliminates the need to have review time which gives students an opportunity to learn more information throughout the year overall. In addition, when schools choose to change to the year round school calendar, they see higher scores on tests and grades in general. This is only possible from the students retaining more and more information from their previous years in the school.
Expository Text and Middle School Students: Some Lessons Learned Chris Street Voices from the Middle Abstract When students reach their middle school years, they are entering a very important phase where reading is essential to their education. However, this is a time when students are known for avoiding reading. This finding is based on the article “Expository Text and Middle School Students: Some Lessons Learned” written by Chris Street. According to the article, one of the solutions to engaging students with expository text is to treat narrative text and expository text differently. They necessitate dissimilar skills and teaching methods.