“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,”
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
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.
This also creates a relevance between the student and their world both in the educational sense and the personal sense.
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.
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.
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.
Something to work on and talk about at home, and spend quality family time together. Parents become interested in their child's education - brings them into the school environment.
Positive sharing of 'finds' not only builds resources but creates a positive, inclusive and productive professional learning environment and builds moral.
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.
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.
Self-paced, somewhat self directed learning. Building confidence and indepence. Minimal imput from teacher mean students are free to express their ideas.
There was a sense of awe when the books arrived and they’d seen what they’d done.”
Positive relationships between all stakeholders. Community involvement and enhancement of student learning.
ents were asked to write about world issues, so Pauline Manuel wrote “Courageous Ezra,” which she dedicated “to all children affected by war.”
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Older students were asked to write about world issue
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.
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
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.
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.
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
The dog wagging the tail - the teacher didn't just use ICT based literacy programs because the existed. She searched for one that met the needs and goals of her students. Even better then she shared with her colleagues.
Wonderful that this teacher has been able to follow her students for that length of time. The benefits this must have for special needs students are immense
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.
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.
School on board with expanding the programme so that others may benefit. This also show that the teachers are in support of the programme. Domino affect.
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.
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
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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"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.
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"It made writing meaningful and purposeful."
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It also got the school buzzing.
According to KPMG demographer Bernard Salt, the great challenge of the future will be for workers to embrace huge change.
Salt says that while all workers will need technology proficiency, it is in fact ‘soft skills’ that must be taught to Australian children.
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Accelerated Reader is a great way of assisting students with text selection as well as keeping track of comprehension by way of students completing a quiz on completion of a text.
The blog that I chose is run by 24 yo, Ashley Azzopardi, a Yr. 5 primary school teacher in Sydney, Australia. Her personal teaching philosophy centers on the notion of inclusive, constructivist-based, positive teaching and learning [more info in post]
The abstract for this sounds interesting
Can popular culture and information communication technologies (ICT) broaden
early years' multiliteracies experiences? This paper presents a case study that begins
with boys role-playing Star Wars action scenes at the commencement of the school
year, and concludes with an end-of-year school community celebration of a new DVD
Star Wars movie sequel, designed and performed by the boys. The Children's Star
Wars Project was developed in a small Western Australian independent community
school committed to the Reggio Emilia educational philosophy. The case study
provides an exemplar of the integral relationship between early childhood pedagogy,
multiliteracies metalanguage, and multimodal designs of meaning. Implications for
educational research are that popular culture and ICT can be readily integrated with
early childhood education (ECE) to broaden multiliteracies experiences. As shown
in this case study, these experiences facilitate the achievement of The Early Years
Learning Framework for Australia outcomes.
Miss Jordan shares her teaching experiences, classroom activities and students learning experiences. Miss Jordan is based in Victoria and is in a primary setting. A 3/4 class.
I think Miss Jordan is interesting as she has regular posts and shares information that is relevant to other teachers. Miss Jordan also uses technology in different ways to help her students learn.
A collection of modules and other resources seeking to help Early Childhood educators grapple with the question of integrating digital technologies into their practice.
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