The student-centered classroom addresses real-world problems that affect or will affect students. This in turn will provide meaning and content to student-driven learning, which then will increase levels of engagement and overall student involvement.
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Life of an Educator by Justin Tarte: 5 ways to make your classroom more student-centered - 2 views
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Love this article. Simple steps to take to make learning more relevant to students. Puts focus squarely where it belongs - on the children.
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A student-centered classroom embraces the notion that there are multiple ways to accomplish an individual task. When we limit and confine students to following a certain and specific path, we ultimately end up limiting their levels of ownership, innovation, and creativity. A student-centered classroom allows, encourages, and embraces the multitude of paths one can take to solve a given problem. This also allows for students to follow their strengths and their interests when completing a task.
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Strategies for online reading comprehension - 8 views
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“When the text does not meet their purposes, they may switch to another text,
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I really like this chart that compares traditional reading with online reading. We need to understand that students are growing up with online reading in ways we only experienced as adults. Well…most of us depending on your age! -
I also think this chart is helpful as a guide to compare online to "off line" reading. It should not be one or the other but how they interact.
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I think this is a good way of looking at reading comprehension. These skills should be taught early on so kids/students can be more effective readers in online and in classical 'textbook' reading. -
There is a shift to have students read more informational test as well as compare two texts. I think need to teach students to read more and be critical about what they read. -
The chart demonstrates just how much more complex the process of online reading is in contrast with traditional model. At this juncture in time, in most instances, I believe teachers are learning along with their students. We can't waste time becoming proficient in these new literacies. Technology outside the realm of education (at least in our district) is providing digital experiences for our charges at a much faster pace than the classroom. We are lagging behind.
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"...readers monitor the meaning they are constructing." on a subconscious level. The proficient reader, while online, functions on a higher cognitive level assessing, sorting, and synthesizing the multifaceted information provided during this 'higher level' reading. This chart compares and contrast the traditional with the digital quite well.
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I was particularly intrigued by the Internet Reciprocal Teaching. Not that i am looking to more on my plate as a technology teacher than I already have~but this seemed like a very systematic approach to teaching students online reading comprehension skills that will be invaluable to them as technology continues to broaden. Not that these skills are not ones that we don't already address but this seems to go even deeper.
Practicing Social Skills: How to Teach Your Student Social Interactions | LD Topics | L... - 11 views
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social skills are often broken down into categories, or types of skill according to the level of complexity and interaction. An example of one way of categorizing social skills can be found in the table below:
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What the majority students are lacking
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I hope I can use some of these strategies and other resources for my students. I want them to interact more and improve their social skills.
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Allie, I find that my ASD students benefit greatly from immediate feedback regarding appropriate and inappropriate behaviors. If spoken to plainly, honestly and directly about misinterpreted or new correctly interpreted cues of others the outcomes are positive for all concerned. The spontaneous teaching moments.
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I will always correct students when proper etiquette is not used or if they omit something from their interaction with someone. I will remind them of each other's personal space, maintaining eye contact, etc. If these types of skills are lacking at home and gentle reminders at school may be all that they are getting as far as learning social skills then I can take a few minutes out of the tech curriculum to do that.
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These skills are essential, and they should be taught and retaught at the Elementary level. As I firmly believe...it takes a village to raise a child.
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Strategies for teaching social skills
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I find myself spending a great deal of time teaching manners, social skills, and etiquette with all students, k-5. We have an organization in our town called "Change in Action." They send us 4-5 books a year that focus on teaching manners and tolerance. These books have been a great resource for social skills.
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Are Ebooks Any Good? | School Library Journal - 3 views
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School librarians appear to be bracing for a shift: SLJ’s survey showed that a majority of elementary school librarians said they either will (18 percent) or may (46 percent) purchase ebooks in the next two years. States and school districts are starting to make deals with ebook companies to provide yearly subscriptions to thousands of students at a time
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This is an interesting statement in the article as our district is one that will invest in an ebook collection in the coming year.
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Another sign of change comes from Scholastic’s 2010 reading habits survey, which shows that the youngest respondents—six- to eight-year-olds—were more likely than their older counterparts to have read an ebook. That exposure, says Judy Newman, president of Scholastic Book Clubs, may reflect the fact that little children have younger parents who may be introducing them to online content at home.
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I started purchasing ebooks for my middle school library about 2 years ago. I have 12 Nook Simple Touch ereaders and I also have about 20 ebooks accessible online through our Follett Destiny online catalog. I wanted students to have the experience of reading digitally because that is the trend of the future. The Nooks only have fiction books on them. Students like to change the font size, and look up words with the onboard dictionary, but the option to create notes is rarely used. The one criticism students have is that it is a grayish screen with the e-ink and not in color and back-lit like their phones. There are many students who report reading their parents Kindles or Nooks or own their own. I purchased nonfiction ebooks for Follett Destiny on topics that students do projects on every year, such as Natural Disasters. This makes them available to students 24/7 and I paid extra for simultaneous access. That means you don't download the book to your device. You can look up information online in the book and a whole class could do it at the same time. Teachers use these ebooks on their Smartboards to teach text features. When I have a larger collection of ebooks, I will enable the download feature. I personally average one novel per week and read on my Nook tablet, my ipad and print books from the public library. I enjoy reading on all of them, like the ability to download the exact title want when I want it including free ones from the public library. I still read print books regularly but much prefer reading magazines in print than digitally. I'm very interested in learning how to help students become fluent in reading and navigating digitally--that is why I loved the chart in the article Jim posted.
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