Some of my ideas for literacy engagements includes using Read-Alouds and shared reading. I would like to pick out a content relevant article and get the class reading. I would also like to use Kelly Gallagher's idea of having the students circle words they are not sure of while reading individually, then move them into groups to discuss it and see if they can figure it out as a team, and then have a class discussion. Additionally, I like Gallagher's 20 questions strategy. I will have to see how my classes are before I can make a final decision on these choices. I will not be teaching business essentials like I thought I would be, I will be teaching accounting and computer applications. So I will have to see what will be appropriate for those topics.
I am really enjoying Readicide. It confirms some ideas that I have had for some time about what is going on in our schools. How sad that students did not know who the vice president is? I am incredulous that students are reading for a grand total of 17 minutes in the course of an entire day of high school! What does the future hold if this failure of our education system continues. To try to address this issue, I would like to incorporate the authors idea of "article of the week" into my future classroom. What a great way to address vocabulary, reading comprehension skills, current events and an awareness of what is going on in the world around them.
I think that my progress on my inquiry project is coming along very well. I have finished with the literature review and moving on to the next step. My literacy engagements are going to spawn from this project and I am curious to see what the outcome will be. I am very concerned about reading in my discipline but I will need to get in the classroom and get some real experience with the students before I am really going to be able to grasp the situation. Then I will be able to figure out which learning strategies really work and discard those that do not.
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I think the idea of trying out Gallagher's technique for addressing new words is a great one for one of your literacy engagements. We talked before about your field having a good bit of new, technical terms for students to learn. A way to approach and process new vocabulary would be an important focus in your teaching.
ReplyDeleteGina totally agree with you on the incorporating current events into the classroom. This is something i look forward to doing because students at the middle school and high school have no clue what is going on in the world around them. All they care about is what is what they are going to do after school or who is who etc. So the best way to get them interested in the outside world is to show them what is going on that is interesting and then start incorporating more stimulating articles. Once they see that cool articles can be written in newspaper like the latest fashion trends or articles on their favorite athletes in the sports section, they might actually pick up the paper and read it at home. It's a stretch but in a perfect world it could happen.
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