Updated Conceptual Framework

After: Bringing awareness to diversity is extremely important to me in my future classroom. This semester was my first time being in a predominantly white school and was honestly kind of a culture shock. I felt as if there was no awareness brought to diversity and a lot of focus on the USA in this school. Because of this I have been able to learn why diversity is important in the classroom. Going from a ton of diversity to almost none is sad to see but helps me take what I've learned at other schools and imply it at schools where diversity may not be as highlighted.

Beliefs and Theory

Literacy Instruction

Literacy Assessment

Diversity

Assessing Writing: I must know the material I am teaching, the students I'm teaching, and myself.
What to look for while assessing writing: quality, process, forms, strategies, community, and connection.

Use teacher criteria and their students' performance relative to those criteria to determine appropriate instruction.
Look for: strengths, accomplishments, goals, instruction, and support.

Comprehension Strategies I can use: re-read text, activate prior knowledge,use context clues, infer meaning, thin aloud, summarize story, locate key words, make predictions, visualize, graphic organizers, and evaluate understanding.

Interactive Read Aloud tips: Let student volunteers read aloud character parts, consider using the same short book several times for different mini lessons, have students create a character word cloud for their favorite character.

Culturally Diverse Literature: Where should I begin? A study work of authors to determine quality of culturally rich books.

Remember that every culturally diverse book may not be appropriate and culturally diverse literature is vital in classroom

Morning Message: ranges between 10-20 minutes.

Greeting 2. Sharing 3. Group activity 4. Morning message

Time to assign class jobs; go over new applications. Allow goal setting to happen during morning message: let students choose a goal to work on and provide a visual card in corner of desk

Guided Reading: reading for meaning is the primary goal. Selected texts students can read w/ 90-94% accuracy.

What to think about? grouping, size, purpose/focus of instruction, and text selection.

Effective guided reading: select purposeful and appropriate text, engage in ongoing assessment, select only 1-2 teaching points for each lesson, and engage children in talking, reading, and thinking.

Best Reading Practices: focus on meaning, read aloud, do everything in your power to get kids to read, provide opportunities to interact with print, surround readers for academic success, teach phonics, provide a wide variety of print, give kids chances, and balance challenging texts with easy ones.

After: This course gave me a new understanding of different literacy instructions. On my old CF I was writing bits of useless information I jotted down during the semester but the information I have now were strategies and practices I was able to see and apply in the classroom.

Assessing Comprehension: Use student work to gain insight on their thinking while reading, do not assign just a grade, and assessment should consist of more than comprehension check questions.

Recognize student differences and include different factors. One idea is having a student of the week and learning about their culture and home practices.

One assessment I saw Mrs. Whitehead use and then did myself with the students was a smart check. For kindergarteners this included uppercase and lowercase letters, counting numbers by 1's and 10's, rhyming, phonics, etc.to check progress throughout the year.

After: This course gave me a better understanding of how assessment is implemented int he classroom. I was able to see how my teacher used assessment as well as the methods we learned through readings and lecture throughout the semester. In my old CF I focused a lot on rubrics and more od the definition side of assessment.

Diversity

Students background controls how they may act and do things differently than others

Culturally Responsive Teaching/ Pedagogy

It is important to get to know and understand each child's background or race

Know that students background controls how they may act and do things differently than others

Recognize that every student matters regardless their skin color or religion

Use different instruction to tailor learning to every aspect of a student's culture

Social Justice Standards

Diversity #8: Students will respectfully express curiosity about the history and lived experiences of others and will exchange ideas and beliefs in an open-minded way.

Identity#3: Students will recognize that people’s multiple identities interact and create unique and complex individuals.

Every group of students is different. Something that works for one group might not work for the other

Build Relationships to become more familiar with individuals

Build bridges between students' home and school lives

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BEFORE:

Assesment

Use rubrics for grading. Do not have to be super strict but sets an expectation for what is required in class or project.

Assessment is important because it tracks students progress individually. In order to see progression you must watch and asses.

quiz/test, observation/dialogue, informal checks for understanding, academic prompt, and performance task or project

Guided Reading Lesson Plan

Rubric/ Assessment map

Students were judged based off their ability to make complete sentences and make illustration in the map.

Homework/Grading

all students should graded off their work individually and not compared to others in the class

grade does not determine student worth

BEFORE

Interactive Read Alouds

interactive readalouds gave me a chance to plan ahead of time for what I wanted my students to accomplish. Instead of just reading a story you are teaching lesson and focus on the objective throughout the story.

When planning an IRA you need to keep in mind your students level of ability. You can not expect more of them then they are able to give. The lesson be structured for your students specifically and not something you see another teacher doing

After our first IRA I've realized it's a lot harder than I thought it was. I sometimes struggle coming up with ideas and am glad to have a teaching partner. I know now how important my time management is and know not to hold these things of til last minute.

identify, describe, apply, and plan!!!!!

pick a book, prepare to share, introduce the book, read the book interactively, and involve students in after reading activities

reading should be where we gain meaning from text

the quantity of children's reading experience is related directly to their achievement levels

children learn to read best in low risk environments

teachers should help readers predict what is going to happen

BEFORE

Comprehension

readers process of using prior experiences and the authors text to construct meaning that's useful to the reader for a specific purpose

students must understand what they’re reading to learn from the experience.
1. make sense of the words in the text to maintain interest
enjoy reading to become lifelong readers

strategies: predicting, evaluating, drawing inferences, etc.

activating background knowledge, sharing during readers workshop, question answer relationship, think alouds during mini lessons, teaching "fix up strategies", model questions like what do i need to learn from this book?

prior knowledge influence

teach children how to summarize, make predictions, etc.

Assessing: determine what comprehension strategies students are using

determine level ? questions (model)

BEFORE

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