Provide students with opportunities to become engaged with the topic;
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Digital cameras in early childhood settings : Children's Services - 6 views
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This Blog is about the use of digital cameras in early childhood settings. It was a part of Week 2's work but I wanted to book mark it here because I thought it might be useful for assignment part 1.
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Hi Kate I also found this site very informative and used this in my blog. I love photos and I strongly believe that digital cameras play an important role in early childhood settings and advocate the importantance of allowing children to explore their world through using digital camera. Working in 3-5 room I have seen many positive expereinces, including behaviour management, as children use digital camera. Sadly the new qualified teacher the centre has employed views camera for "teachers' only (not even assistants can use them) and only one photo per month per child and no viewing them on the television. Bec
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This website is set up for Early Childhood educators to make life easier. Its quote is "We all need to work together to make the Early Years Framework a reality". It contains links to interactive ICT websites and advice on the following topics: Being, Belonging, Becoming Reggio Emilia Learning through Play Social & Emotional Development Communication Skills Learning Literacy Learning Numeracy Equal Access for All Consistent Curriculum Smooth Transition Partnerships Quality assurance Activities for Little Kids ICT for Littlies Australian Early Years Framework Regulation Videos Other Early Years Links Recipes safe for kids
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Its great to hear people say that we need to work together. I remember years ago a friend of mine (who was a Grade 6 teacher) told me of her frustration when she would encourage her students and they were alive with excitement to learn and explore and the work they handed in was exceptional from her point of view. However, six months into the next year she would be so disappointed because the grades of the Year 7 students would be declining and their attitude was one of apathy. What she wanted to do was to work with the Year 7 teacher so with a combined effort they could assist the students to continue their positive attitude throughout their time at upper primary school. The Year 7 teacher felt threatened and the sad cycle continued. When I read http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/blog-early-blog-often-the-secret-to-making-boys-write-properly-2211232.html as well as http://www.letthechildrenplay.net I was thrilled to hear what great progress is being made by teachers/schools when they collaborate. Thanks for the info.
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Momentum EYLF | Supporting the Early Years Learning Framework - 1 views
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Headphones accommodate independent learning | ictinearlyprimaryeducation - 0 views
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Australian Curriculum Resources | ictinearlyprimaryeducation - 1 views
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After blogging each week and linking resources, I wondered if their were any resources online especially created to assist teachers or preservice teachers based on the Australian curriculum. Amazingly, I googled 'Australian curriculum resources' and found this amazing website that includes books that are created for different subjects and based on the Australian curriculum.
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Educational Blogging | Primary Tech - 3 views
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Kathleen Morris discusses the benefits of using blogs in classrooms. She has been an active 'blogger' for over 6 years now, and explains that she feels blogging assists students to make connections with their learning, particularly in primary school settings, with home, school, and global influences.
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A primary school teacher's advice for using blogging in the classroom with students for learning.
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Pedagogical Content Knowledge - 8 views
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This is a helpful article on the professional learning and development of teachers and the professional learning, specifically english, to assist in becoming a more competent teacher.
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What Matters Most in the Professional Learning of Content Teachers in Classrooms with Diverse Student Populations
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Cool Cat Teacher Blog - Helping you be an excellent teacher every day. - 8 views
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With almost 70,000 followers Vicki Davis was named one of "Twitter's Top 10 Rockstar teachers" by Mashable. Vicki is a full time teacher and IT Director at a small school in Camilla, Georgia. In her words, "my mission is to help you be a better teacher. I'm passionate about helping all teachers reach every student so I write a lot about teaching, staying motivated, and how to connect with other teachers." 'Coolcatteacher' has also been consistently named one of the top 50 blogs in education worldwide. What piqued my interest is her belief in using technology effectively as a teacher.
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Cool Cat Teacher is a blog by Vick Davis. She blogs about things such as how to improve your own teacher blogs and she also shares insights into her classroom.
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Kathy Cassidy is well known by Forbes, The Washington Post and by her radio station 'BAM'. Her range of enriching learning activities and advice for effective teaching assists by providing a 'teachers view' of education and various advice and 'how to' blogs to help teachers in providing an enriching learning experience for children.
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A really wonderful blog that not only helps teachers be excellent each day, but gives hope, support and encouragement to us as future teachers. Gives practical suggestions and valuable information in relation to students learning! A must see BLOG!
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This award winning teacher blog, The Cool Cat Teacher is an online blog created by Vicki Davis aiming to help educators teach with better results, lead with a positive impact and live with greater purpose.
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I especially love this blog - The Cool Cat Teacher. Vicki provides innovative, practical ideas backed by research. A great resource!
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Questions should ignite learning. Curious kids never get bored. But why do young kids ask more than 100 questions a day and by middle school, they've stopped asking?
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This teacher is preaching the "Teaching Gospel for Today"! Asking questions and promoting problem-based learning to students is how to teach students today. Thank-you for sharing this bernielou!
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Provide students with the opportunity to process the information they have gathered and present this in a number of ways; and
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Help students draw conclusions about what they have learnt; and Provide opportunities for reflection both on what has been learnt and on the learning process itself.
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Assist students to make links between their understanding and their experience in the real world; Enable students to make choices and develop the belief that they can be effective participants in society; and Provide further insight into students' understandings for future unit planning.
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Toronto students write, publish their own books | Toronto Star - 6 views
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“Every student in the school had a voice — whether it was an ESL student who can’t speak the language, or someone who has a learning disability — everybody has a page or a book that’s their own,”
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Inclusive practice that caters for diverse learning needs. Why? "Evaluate and revise school learning and teaching programs, using expert and community knowledge and experience, to meet the needs of students with diverse linguistic, cultural, religious and socioeconomic backgrounds." - #1 Know students and how they learn. Retrieved from http://www.teacherstandards.aitsl.edu.au/DomainOfTeaching/ProfessionalKnowledge/Standards
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It is important that different platforms are found so that each individual can have a voice.
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“It made writing meaningful and purposeful.”
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Why not now?
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The teacher thinking in a way that is new and exciting, and initiates further thinking and possibilities.
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It also seems very exciting that this teacher is supporting learning that is relevant & shows students that learning is not just for the future but opens up opportunities for them now.
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This also creates a relevance between the student and their world both in the educational sense and the personal sense.
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Kids brainstormed ideas, wrote rough drafts, edited with classmates and teachers and created their own illustrations. Some handwrote the final draft, while others chose to type up pages.
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Students and teachers became motivated and engaged in literacy. Students were able to have a choice between typing their stories or writing them by hand. This task was also inclusive in regards to students who might have had learning difficulties. It provided a platform for these students to express themselves creatively through the use of colours, images, written text or a variety of materials such as button, beads, different fabrics that they could cut out and paste, etc.
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Collaboration between students and teachers promotes positive learning experiences and ensures all learners are involved and able to participate. Providing students with options to create illustrations, type or write their story by hand enables all students to construct their story in a way that suits them.
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Parents were calling in
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I got so excited because I love writing stories with my friends — I love reading and writing,” said 8-year-old Zaria Gibbons
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When she shared her find at a staff meeting, fellow teachers at the Scarborough school loved the idea and they all got on board.
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Positive sharing of 'finds' not only builds resources but creates a positive, inclusive and productive professional learning environment and builds moral.
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by sharing the idea it became a whole school activity involving the entire school community including the parents
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Teacher was able to network with others. Created a holistic and inclusive approach to the idea. Ultimately a higher chance for success as more support is there.
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Having an open minded and innovative staff helps, so does having the opportunity to try something different. Not all schools would have been so on board with the idea.
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Teacher provided an extension to other teachers professional learning and used networking with other peers
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students were given a kit with instructions and pages.
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There was a sense of awe when the books arrived and they’d seen what they’d done.”
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holding an authors’ night for parents, grandparents, siblings — even aunts and uncles — to check out the books.
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ents were asked to write about world issues, so Pauline Manuel wrote “Courageous Ezra,” which she dedicated “to all children affected by war.” We value respectful and thoughtful discussion. Readers are encouraged to flag comments that fail to meet the standards outlined in our Community Code of Conduct. For further information, including our legal guidelines, please see our full website Terms and Conditions. Commenting is now closed. Login | Signup 0 Comments powered by: Follow Newest Oldest Most Liked Editor's Pick Most Active Most Replies ← View all comments Show More document.write(''); no
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lder students were asked to write about world issues, so Pauline Manuel wrote “Courageous Ezra,” which she dedicated “to all children affected by war.” We value respectful and thoughtful discussion. Readers are encouraged to flag comments that fail to meet the standards outlined in our Community Code of Conduct. For further information, including our legal guidelines, please see our full website Terms and Conditions. Commenting is now closed. document.write(''); document.write(''); <div c
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Older students were asked to write about world issue
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This activity challenges student to investigate and reflect on 'real world' events promoting a deeper understanding of what happen around them and international and how they feel about what they discover.
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Personally I would prefer students be given choice of topic, as dictating the topic seems to contradict the impetus for the project which was to foster a student driven passion for writing.
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1I got so excited because I love writing stories with my friends — I love reading and
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Looks like the student is receiving support at home for their efforts at school.
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I love how this seems to have involved the families too. I feel parents are becoming increasing less involved in the classroo, for various reasons, so it's fantastic that this has sparked their enthusiasm as well as the student's.
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My Amazing Book of Poems.”
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“It wasn’t just something they did and handed in to the teacher.”
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The school made a big deal of the young writers
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‘Have you finished your draft yet?’ ” said principal Denise Canning.
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even those in kindergarten — contributed a page to a class book.
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It also got the school buzzing
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Having the whole school talking about something as positive and exciting as literacy is a great reason to do something like this! It shows how excited the students are about creating their own work - love it.
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great idea to get the students to feel good about learning and they get to take something away from it that they can be proud off. Great concept and great on the school part to adjust their teaching and assessments
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students could read aloud.
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students of mine for the past three years,
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This reminds me of a student with ASD at a school I am aware of that wrote his own book about the struggles of making friends. It was an amazing experience for this boy, his twin sister illustrated it for him and his best friend assisted. He performed readings of the book for all the classrooms. Such an amazing experience for the child and the school.
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kids would get off the bus carrying their package of materials and talking about it
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Another awesome result of this activity is that it makes literacy possible and enjoyable for all students. Not all students enjoy or succeed in reading, but show far more engagement with writing, especially when given freedom of expression, and encouraged to write about something relevant and enjoyable to them.
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What happens when teachers from across a school encourage their students to write and publish their own books. Can you identify some of the educational reasons why this was a successful project? This is a week 5 activity.
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Reasons as to why I thought this was a good idea: - students and parents are involved - everyone in the class, all learning abilities, got involved - it gave writing a sense of purpose for the class - students could relate it to interests and real life concepts. - students took charge of what they are going to write
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Kids brainstormed ideas, wrote rough drafts, edited with classmates and teachers and created their own illustrations. Some handwrote the final draft, while others chose to type up pages. 1 "Every student in the school had a voice - whether it was an ESL student who can't speak the language, or someone who has a learning disability - everybody has a page or a book that's their own," said Remedios. 6 "It made writing meaningful and purposeful." 2 It also got the school buzzing.
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An awesome way to get kids involved with books - by creating thier own. Come to think of it, it worked for Kai too back in Yr 2.
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Tamara's Technology Time - 7 views
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As briefly discussed in module one it suggests that as a pre-service teacher we should consider including digital technologies to represent mental/conceptual models to assist in the learning process. I am interested to see how this may be achieved? Have you any ideas how this can be done in an inclusive classroom?
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Currently I am teaching in an environment with a diverse group of students learning needs; Years 7-12. I have access to computers, IPad, Digital Projector, Internet the list goes on. E.g. Warm Ups are as a whole group on the whiteboard via the data projector and speakers. We have access to E-Books and Audio E-Books and programs like Reading Eggs for all ages.
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Hi Tamara I came across a really simple concept mapping site today, which is very quick and easy to use. Bubbl.us While the same activity can be done in the student's book, so it is not transformative, it is an easy and engaging activity. Many of the students I work with as a teacher aid (mainly ASD and II) love using the computer rather than drawing and writing by hand. They can then download and save their image to their computer or google drive for later use.