By Susan Watts Taffe, Carolyn B. Gwinn

An obtainable source for busy academics, this informative publication units the level for utilizing expertise successfully within the literacy school room. The authors take the reader step-by-step throughout the ongoing cycle of making plans, instructing, and overview in a technology-rich setting. They display find out how to use the web and analyzing and writing software program not just to educate middle literacy abilities, but additionally to assist young ones boost new analyzing and verbal exchange expertise for the electronic age. shiny school room examples illustrate particular concepts for specific guideline, instructor modeling, think-alouds, and interactive demonstration. The ebook additionally bargains instruments and the right way to aid expert improvement, together with reproducible fabrics to be used by means of person lecturers or research teams.

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In the process, they consider similarities and differences between their responses and those of the featured children in Wake Up, World! A Day in the Life of Children Around the World. The following month, parents and other caregivers enjoy viewing the slideshow as well as the class world map while visiting the classroom for parent– teacher conferences. Assessing and Reflecting on Instruction Although the process of assessing and reflecting on instruction is ongoing, Alicia devotes additional time to this process at the close of the unit of study.

This learning experience provides you an opportunity to demonstrate your literacy–technology integration efforts during a lesson. You may choose to provide your observer with the lesson observation guide in Appendix E. 3. This conversation will provide you an opportunity to share your planning processes, instructional intentions, and reflections on the lesson. It goes without saying that this is a meaningful way for you to discuss your teaching and receive feedback in a situation free of high-stakes evaluation.

After she becomes familiar with the software, Alicia confirms its availability on multiple laptops. As she continues to become familiar with KidPix, she records information and ideas in her anecdotal log. Over the course of a few days, she begins to think more about her instructional objective related to new technologies, refining it. ” It is important to note that the process Alicia engages in is recursive in nature, especially related to the exploration of new technology. At the onset of the planning phase, Alicia has a general idea of her goals for students regarding technology integration—to heighten understanding of new technologies.

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