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It will make students more dependent when it comes to thinking about the text

This will help benefit their comprehension

Students will be motivated to find more evidence in order to support their evidence.

It's important for students to speak with each other in order to get a better understanding of a text.

Text Complexity

Quantitive Dimensions

Deals with length and structure.

Nearly impossible for humans to evaluate

Qualitative Dimensions

Deal with meaning, language, knowledge, clarity and purpose.

Relates to the part of a text that can only be measured by a human that is reading it.

Sentence structure, vocabulary, the organization of a text and the coherence are all components that make a text complex.

What makes a text complex is how long the text is and the amount of complex language within the text.

College Readiness

Texts provided in high school are not complex enough for college levels, so it is up to students to take in upon themselves to choose texts harder than what they are given.

Students will also succeed more if they can comprehend complexity.

Students that can understand complex texts are more likely to enroll in college.

Struggles with Texts

Students get frustrated if they cannot understand what they are reading.

Students want to hurry and skim the text just to find the answers they need, they do not analyze like they should.

If the teacher does not have the proper development then they cannot pass the knowledge on to their students.

Not all students have the interest and motivation to read a text

Just about 25-40% of students have not yet developed the appropriate skills.

New Standards

Reading and Complexity Levels

Must be able to read and accurately comprehend complex literacy.

Knowledge and Ideas

Must be able to analyze several text and be able to compare them to each other.

Evaluate arguments within a text and be sure to understand the validity and reliability.

Incorporate content that can be provided in different ways

Structure

Must understand the structure of the text.

Must understand the use of language, tone and their meaning to the story.

Analyzing Ideas and Details

Must be able to analyze the theme, individuals and events

Must be able to make logical inferences and support these inferences with the correct evidence.

Complex Text

Mentoring and collaborating

Require qualitative and quantitive dimensions

Discipline-specific

Must have an understanding of complex texts in order to succeed in college and careers.

Social Justice Education

Five Components

Awareness of Multicultural Group Dynamics

Everyone must be treated the same.

Make sure higher level students do not disempower lower level students.

The classroom must be student centered in order to be a successful social justice classroom

If you do not have a diverse classroom, it is still important to treat it as such.

Understand that your classroom will always have different dynamics, ideas and identities.

Tools for Personal Reflection

Subtopic

You get the chance to realize that maybe you are part of the social problems happening.

Encourage students to self reflect.

Assignments on self reflection can help students realize the importance behind it.

Self reflection helps keep an open mind and gives you the chance to realize what else there is to consider.

It is important to personally reflect on yourself so you do not get off track.

Tools for Social Change

Teachers must expose their students to history so they will want to go in and change all the bad that has happened.

As educators, it is important to make students realize their rights and make it known that they can make a difference in society.

While teaching about oppression it is important that teachers also support social action, otherwise it will never be done.

Tools for Critical Analysis

It is up to educators to lead students in the right direction and tech them how to truly critically analyze information in order for students to apply their knowledge properly.

All information provided to the classroom must be up for debate and conversation, there should be no my way or now way.

Knowing the information does not mean students are understanding what is being presented to them, as a result they will not be motivated to take any sort of action.

Knowing information does not equal to wisdom

Content Mastery

Macro to Micro

Understanding macro and micro situations will help create a socially just classroom.

"Think globally, act locally"

Classroom content does not have to be limited to only the classroom, it is encouraged that students take this content with them in the real world.

It is important for students to read information that may connect to their personal lives.

Historical Contextualization

Must understand that history may have a bias and critical view.

Have an understanding of historical texts

Understanding of forces that are political, social and economic.

Factual Information

Must be openminded with different ideas and information that is different from the norm.

Definition

Focuses on power, privilege and social change

Empowerment, democracy, focus from students, dialogue.

It requires all of society to take action and participate.

It is a "goal and a process"

They must help teachers and give them the support they need when it comes to creating new lessons.

Students are accountable for their own engagement in their education