Reading Response #1
Zygouris-Coe, Ch.2-Literacy as a Discipline-Specific Process.
Principle 1: Learning is a Socially Constructed Process
Come up with multiple equations and groups solve them
Give groups different formulas and have them teach the class how to solve it and show examples on how to do so
Principle 2: Teacher As Mentor, Student as Apprentice
Use current people,events, and things for Line Graphs
Principle 3: Content and Literacy Knowledge Develop in Tandem
Having a daily question can where students put their math questions in a can.
Having it anonymous so students can ask freely.
Milner, Ch.1-Understanding the Landscape of classroom Management: A look at Research, Theory, and Practice.
Learn from your students
Get to know your students
Culturally
Their Background
Extracurricular activities
Learn how your students Learn best
Learn about how students were previously taught
Learn about how your content is taught in different countries and cultures
Adopt multiple ways to give information and ask students which helps them more
Showcase your students strength
The Three Themes of Literature
Punishment referral Patterns
More times than not referrals wen to students of color
More times than not referrals went to students from lower
socioeconomic backgrounds
Teacher and student congruence and dissonance
do not avoid or distance yourself from learning knowledge about your students
Students' home lives
cultural backgrounds
The adoption of color blindness ideologies
Fails to recognize ignored discriminatory institutional practices
Systemic Barriers
Ennis discovered 50% of teachers in the study did not teach a certain topic because of the confrontations that such topic generate with specific students
Classroom managment is about teachers' ability to develop culturally responsive practices
Principles of culturally Responsive Pedagogy
Culture counts
conventional reform is inadequate
Intention without action is insufficient
Strength and vitality emerge from cultural diversity
Test Scores and grades are symptoms, not causes, of achievement problems
Six Tenets of Culturally responsive teaching
Validating
Acknowledging the cultural backgrounds, experiences, worldviews, ideas, ideals, and values of their families
Comprehensive
Understand and attempt to build on students "social, emotional and political learning by using cultural resources to teach knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes
Multidimensional
Understand that our work must be designed and redirected to address the multiple modalities of student learning
Empowering
enables students to maximize their potential and to work toward excellence personally and with community
Transformative
practices that are culturally responsive to help students see themselves as community contributors
Emancipatory
Development of students whereby they recognized the power of education and learning beyond satisfying predetermined sets of requirements in a classroom or school
Gunthrie, Article- Reading Motivation and Engagement In Middle and High School
Reading motivation
Foundational Math
Compared to the other subjects not a lot of reading
Build confidence by treating formulas like vocabulary words
having them understand and be able to identify formulas compared to just knowing how to solve them
Learn to change some students perception of math
Try to show relevance to real life things
Ex. Comparing basketball player stats in the current time
Ex. instead of a typical line graph do one of Apple sales in the last month.