The Junior Learner
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Transcript of The Junior Learner
The Junior Learner
Building the context
Framework for Instruction
Literacy For Learning, The Report of the Expert Panel on Literacy in Grades 4 to 6 in Ontario,
2004. p.14
Who is the Junior Learner?
Activity:
What do we already know about our Junior Learners?
The Junior Learner: Context
prior knowledge and experiences personal and cultural identity family context technology gender
escalating academic demands
Physical development
Social development
Emotional development
Cognitive development
The Junior Learner: Characteristics
Activity: Fishbone & Gallery Walk Record relevant activities to use in your
classroom on the rectangles of the fishbone. Use the context & characteristics (handouts)
as the supporting details.
Fishbone Organizer
Organizes ideas into types of classifications of main ideas and sub ideas
Head circle is issue/idea/key question that acts as focus for the thinking
Rectangles or bones are classifiers or main ideas
Smaller bones are the supporting details or examples/ideas
Let’s Synthesize!
We need to plan for: movement and activity group and individual space discussion and talk media studies technological literacy using a critical lens
If I have one tenet in teaching, it is that no one can MAKE … a student learn anything…
You can only provide an environment for possibilities and hope.
Susan Ohanian, Who’s in Charge? 1994
Lunch
12:40 – 1:05
Door prizes drawn at 1:05 – must be in the room.