Getting to Know You Students #10

The question is why is kid watching a critical practice for teachers. Well this is simple to answer, because you learn a lot just from watching how they interact with other students, alone, or in collaborative groups. This also allows you to collect information on there likes or strength in certain areas. It is a wonderful tool for students who maybe shy and reserved.

Kid watching is informed by cultural differences theory, because as we know each student bring some information already to class with them every day. This information is gathered from the culture they are raised in and have had close contact with. Just like the little boy who didn't like to read the teacher found a interest from his background that made him want to read soccer books. Just by kid watching and a small survey she learned so much and could help the student develop a like for the written language.

This is a very great tactic for new teachers and even for the veteran. Every year your students change so does the interest and culture of that community. Just standing back and taking notes will help you get a better understand of the students in your class and help you develop more positive ways to reach out to them in the classroom.

Getting to Know Your Students #9

The reason you allow the students to use primary language is so that it is easy for them to make a connection to there main language and the new one they are learning. This makes the transition easier because it allows the student to use english and there main language in the writting they do. This doesn't apply to appalachian dialect because english is the main language they just need to brush up on the rules and right way to use the language they already know.

Students and Teachers see everything in diffrent ways. This is why if you ask them to wite about the samething the views would be really diffrent from each other.

http://www.appalachianstudies.org/resources/K12/ASAs_K12-ResourceDirectory.pdf


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Getting to Know Your Students #8

1.Just because they people share the same language doesn't mean they will get along.When the teacher paired Bianca with Rosa and they did talk at all.
2.It takes longer for them to learn English. Bianca would translate thing to Rosa in Spanish with wouldn't help her English at all.
3. Even though they share the same culture there experiences are different. We know Bianca dad had to stay in Mexico and she didn't understand why.

Virtual backpack is the stuff you already know and you bring ti with you all the time. This is realated to funds of knowlege in the fact you can use the stuff from the backp-ack in the classroom to help the learning process happen.



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Culturally Responsive Teaching #6

When we first got this assigment I knew exactly what I was going to talk about, and who. Coach Baker intro class let us see how a teacher can be a facilitater. He gave use little instruction and allowed us to mold it into anything we wanted, which was a great experience. He also allowed us to work in groups which allowed us to pull from diffrent backgrouds and learn new thing and information. His mini lesson in class really allowed me to realize that teaching was what I wanted to do. When someone says the word culturally responsive I think of this class and Coach Baker.

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Teaching of Writing #5

Things Learned

1.Writing has a voice.(Not one you speak with words)
2.Hard for a young child to write what they can say.
3.Computer allow every level of readers to read.

Interesting Items

1.Drawing is a form of writing.
2.Spoken word is hard to write.

Question

1. Why is English the easies to speak but the hardest to write?

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Photo Story Draft

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Funds of Knowledge #4

Quote

"Moll urged them to help students find meaning rather then learning isolated facts and rules."

Reaction

When i was reading the article this here really stuck out to me. This research shows that students don't learn the best with just being talked to the whole time they are in the classroom. We need to take from students strenghts and their backgrounds and start teaching to students strengths. Students don't start school without some type of knowledge. It may not be the cutty cook form that all the older teachers are use to following. If we would just look close we will see students who do math on construction sites with parents or student who write there own poems with their friends. All of these are things we can build on in our classroom. It is time to stop talking to our students like they know nothing and start listening to what they already have to show us.

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Own the Word #3