Share three pieces of academic or professional reading and explain how they and other sources helped you form hypotheses about aspects of teaching that might contribute to current patterns of learning.
I enjoyed reading Jannie's chapter on Word Consciousness. This is a wonderful goal for how a classroom should operate:
"Imagine a classroom where learners are excited about meeting new words, where they bring words they have met outside class to explain to their classmated, where they immediately look at breaking an unfamiliar word into parts and connecting it with other realted words they know, where they know where to go to find out what a word means, and where the teacher has the goal of developing learners' word consciousness."
I have also been reading Sheena Cameron & Lousie Dempsey's The Reading Book. This has been a great resource for looking at ways in which to teach and increase students' comprehension.
On Engagement and Motivation (which I feel links well to the ability for children to complete their learning tasks) I have enjoyed reading these articles from The Education Hub.
https://theeducationhub.org.nz/an-introduction-to-engagement-in-educational-settings/:
https://theeducationhub.org.nz/motivation/
This morning I had a discussion with my Deputy Principal, Toni Nua. She shared a rubric with me that I believe she said Jannie van Hees supplied it her. We talked about the importance of children being able to explain a new word to their peers using their own bank of known words, and how it is a powerful and confidence boosting skill.
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