https://padlet.com/emcabee/ajvkgl79e0eo en-us 2018-12-13 20:11:16 UTC 2018-12-13 23:28:12 UTC hello@padlet.com emcabee https://padlet.com/emcabee/ajvkgl79e0eo/wish/314453970 "Literacy is not a single or monolithic entity. Rather it is a set of multi-faceted social practices that are shaped by contexts, participants and technologies."- Literacy is more than reading and writing about a book. I saw an example of a math word wall. I want to create that in my classroom with my students to help utilize the language of math. In my class right now, I have a couple ESOL students that struggle with some addition and subtraction concepts. I'm hoping that have a reference board in the classroom can be resource to them as they work towards independence in math. ]]> 2018-12-13 20:11:41 UTC https://padlet.com/emcabee/ajvkgl79e0eo/wish/314453970 emcabee https://padlet.com/emcabee/ajvkgl79e0eo/wish/314456876 "If students are to make knowledge their own, they must struggle with the details, wrestle with the facts, and rework raw information and dimly understood concepts into language they can communicate to someone else. In short, if students are to learn, they must write." I read this quote and know that for my students to succeed in their learning they must learn to write and communicate through their writing. I read on page 63, "The practice of writing can enhance the brain's intake, processing, and retaining, and retrieving of information." Basically through writing in the content areas is the best thing we, as teachers, can do for our students. I have a journal for each content area and I'm challenged to make sure I maximize the quality (and quantity) of time spent using that resource for my students. I think having science and math starter phrases on the walls of my classroom, would be excellent for my students to use in their journals and other times they're writing in science, social studies or math. ]]> 2018-12-13 20:18:58 UTC https://padlet.com/emcabee/ajvkgl79e0eo/wish/314456876 emcabee https://padlet.com/emcabee/ajvkgl79e0eo/wish/314461386 "Students don't just learn how to solve one problem or think through one complex situation; instead, as they engage inquiry, they develop habits that will transfer to other disciplines and other problems." Curiosity and following through with wanting to inquire about an area is a characteristic that makes people successful. It's important to help students learn how to think about their own thinking and beware of their habits of thinking. I liked the example of the "Self-Reflection Survey: Habits of Mind" that was adapted by Costa and Kallick. It may be a harder concept for 1st graders, but if we started explaining and talking about it earlier on, it may help to "click" once they are in the older grades. I know in my own personal life I'm very conscious of good and bad habits. I want to bring that topic more into my classroom and help my students think more about their good and bag habits and the consequences that go with each. ]]> 2018-12-13 20:31:50 UTC https://padlet.com/emcabee/ajvkgl79e0eo/wish/314461386 emcabee https://padlet.com/emcabee/ajvkgl79e0eo/wish/314466629 "Collaborative learning is more than just grouping students to fill out a worksheet or jigsaw a reading assignment. It is the negotiation and construction of meaning." My take away from this chapter is how important getting students to "talk" within the disciplines and it's a key skill for collaboration. We need to be planning and allowing student time to talk about what they're learning so that they can become aware of how language works which in turn with develop a deeper and richer understanding of concepts. It never fails, every year I'm blown away by how well some of my students can communicate and the lack of communication skills from some of my students. The past couple years of teaching I have tried to implement more of "turning and talking" to partner. I used to let students pick a new student to talk to each time, but now I'm seeing the importance of allowing them to have the same person they talk to throughout the year because you share your ideas with someone you have to build a level of trust or the communication will not be authentic. Next semester I'm going to let my students pick their partner that will be the rest of the year (obviously, with my advisement). I'm excited to see the depth of conversation that will hopefully development as they mature even much so in the 2nd semester of school. Before students can truly collaborate, they must learn how to talk to one another and I want my students to go into 2nd grade feeling confident on how to discuss with a peer. ]]> 2018-12-13 20:46:48 UTC https://padlet.com/emcabee/ajvkgl79e0eo/wish/314466629 emcabee https://padlet.com/emcabee/ajvkgl79e0eo/wish/314498679 "Community is, indeed, the hallmark of this program. Whether students are involved in working, the tenets of community-respect, responsibility, interdependence, and coming to care about each other-are embedded in all learning. Brent says that collaboration is nonnegotiable, and it begins by helping students come to know each other as people." Community is the puzzle piece that all people, not just students, need to feel whole, wanted, understood. Some of the best working places or social groups are those  where one feels they belong. It only makes sense that community is what learning environments need too to thrive and be effective. I would say that of all the aspects of the teaching, building community is the what makes my heart beat faster and passionately. FES is filled with broken home after broken home. To many of our kids, our classrooms is where they are learning what community is or should be. I want to continue to make my students feel wanted and confident that they belong in my classroom. It want to do a better job of helping them see how their work in the class is important and it counts and their efforts are also worth something positive. ]]> 2018-12-13 23:10:37 UTC https://padlet.com/emcabee/ajvkgl79e0eo/wish/314498679