Transcript EDU 4245

EDU 4245
Current Issues
Why Does Reading Matter?
Agenda
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What are current educational issues
about which I should be concerned?
Why does reading matter?
Textbooks – Why potentially
problematic?
BIG Question
• How can I help all students learn course
content?
• Think about creating a “thinking-rich
learning environment”
Thinking-Rich Learning
Environment
• Small, student expression, reciprocal relationship, attentive, a lot of
exchange of information
• Fun, personal, inviting, efficient. Informational
• Open, comfortable, high energy, rich ideas, teamwork, students enjoy
• Inviting, free, open, challenging, always something new, think
independently
• Interactive, colorful, stimulating, set up for discussion, genuine interest
in students’ thoughts and ideas from the teacher, comfortable and safe
• Comfortable, participation, structured, flexible, student-centered –
focus on students coming up with own knowledge
• Intensity, passion, effort, exciting, challenging
• Organized, interactive, intellectually-stimulating, controlled behavior
• Energy, positive attitude, attentive student, interaction
• Group work, hands on, teacher walking around, clean, questions
• Socratic method, comfortable, open, debate, variety of methods
• Motivating, engaging, interactive, welcoming, challenging
Phi Delta Kappa Gallup Poll
• Ratings toward public schools
– Schools in community
• All respondents – 47% A’s, B’s;
• Parents – 61% A’s, B’s
– Ratings lower for schools nationally
Phi Delta Kappa Gallup Poll
• What is major issue facing public schools?
– Funding 21%
– Lack of discipline 10%
– Overcrowded schools 10%
– Use of drugs 7%
– Violence 6%
Phi Delta Kappa Gallup Poll
• Ways to improve public schools?
– 66% want to reform not offer alternative
• No Child Left Behind?
– 68% knows little about it
Phi Delta Kappa Gallup Poll
• Support of standardized tests?
– 40% right amount of emphasis
– 32% too much emphasis
– 22% too little emphasis
Phi Delta Kappa Gallup Poll
• Using high stakes tests for diploma?
– 51% favor
– 47% oppose
• Using high stakes test to determine
teacher quality?
– 49% favor
– 46% oppose
Phi Delta Kappa Gallup Poll
• Allowing parents to choose private school
at public school expense
– 54% oppose
– 42% favor
Current Issues
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NCLB
Inclusion
Funding – Differences in suburban and urban areas
How students have changed over years. Amount of respect. Discipline. Students
don’t care.
Re-segregation of schools
Class size – Smaller vs. larger
Curriculum – creationism v evolution
Role of parents in classroom
Heterogeneous v homogeneous grouping
Tracking
School organization – K-8, middle school, high school?
Standardized testing
Emergency certification of teachers; Teach for America
Tracks for gifted students
Violence and safety
Special education
Higher prevalence drugs, alcohol, teen pregnancy
Analysis of Own Reading
• Required – didn’t want to. More motivated to do interest.
• Interest – context with noise. Required – no noise
• Required – Looked at length. Interest-didn’t matter how long. Read
this faster.
• Required-Ready to write. Body tense. Stress. Interest-body not
tense.
• Required-sometimes don’t know what was read. Interest-if don’t
understand, don’t keep reading.
• Required-try to get the big picture. Look at highlights. Re-read. Read
out loud.
• Textbook-highlighted/bolded words draw attention away from other
text.
• Pictures helpful. Pictures not helpful.
• Required-makes tired
Analysis of Own Reading
• Differences between 2 texts?
Reading Quiz
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What do you need to remember about
proper polarity with the speakers?
How do you connect the Video disc
player?
Why should the connection cables for the
TV and tuner be as far away as
possible?
Textbooks
• What are some problems with way middle
and high schools use textbooks?
• Why does reading decline starting 5th
grade?
• “The teachers taught students, not
programs. They worried about engaging
students with reading and writing in the
content areas.” (Allington)
• What are some general solutions?
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Reading Level
Grade-Level vs. Struggling Readers
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Key Terms
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A Nation at Risk
Assign and tell
Content literacy
Content reading
Instructional scaffolding
Levels of comprehension
Literacy
Metacognition
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Prior knowledge
Reader response
Reading process
Schema activation
Schema theory
Standards-based
instruction
• Student interest
copyright (c) Allyn & Bacon 2004
Classroom Factors that Influence
Content Literacy
• The learner’s prior knowledge of, attitude
toward, and interest in the subject
• The learner’s purpose for engaging in
reading, writing, and discussion
• The language and conceptual difficulty of
the text material
copyright (c) Allyn & Bacon 2004
Classroom Factors Continued
• The assumptions that the text writers
make about their audience of readers
• The text structures that writers use to
organize ideas and information
• The teacher’s beliefs about the attitude
toward the use of texts in learning
situations
copyright (c) Allyn & Bacon 2004
Good readers are:
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Active
Purposeful
Evaluative
Thoughtful
Strategic
Persistent
Productive
copyright (c) Allyn & Bacon 2004
Position
• Standards are necessary to increase
student learning
– Agree – move to front of room
– Disagree – move to back of room
Questions
• How do standards affect what teachers do
and what students learn?
• What do you know and what are you
curious to learn about NCLB?
For Next Class
• What do “standards” mean in the field of
education? Are they detrimental or
beneficial?
• Divide for Nelson Chapter 5.
• Read V&V pp. 30-39.
• Read ESEA Primer
• Danielle case – Respond via email
• Current Issues topic and groups