New Literacies
New forms of literacy that are possible due to the opportunities provided by advancements in technology.
What are new literacies?
A structure that uses knowledge that uses the knowledge and experiences of students to improve the relevancy and effectiveness of learning. Most importantly, teaching is done to and through students’ strengths.
What is culturally responsive teaching?
A process utilized by teachers as well as students that is deliberate and provides feedback that can be acted upon and can be used to adjust instruction in order to improve the learning of students.
What is formative assessment?
Discussing vocabulary, building background knowledge, making predictions, generating questions, activating prior knowledge, and establishing a purpose for reading.
What are the purposes of before-reading activities?
Basic words that appear in everyday vocabulary and need no explanation.
What are tier one vocabulary words?
Teacher-led instruction, collaborative modeling, and inquiry.
What are the three phases of internet reciprocal teaching?
An approach that is student-centered and teaching identifies and nurtures students’ unique cultural strengths in order to promote student achievement as well as sense of belonging about their cultural place in the world.
What is culturally responsive pedagogy?
Measures student competency or mastery at the end of the unit or course.
What is summative assessment?
Engaging with the text, self-monitoring comprehension, using mental imagery, constructing graphic organizers, summarizing texts, integrating new information with prior knowledge, verifying and formulating predictions.
What are the purposes of during-reading activities?
Words that appear frequently and are central to comprehension, also good for direct instruction.
What are tier two vocabulary words?
A webpage designed by a teacher that contains a variety of activities as well as objectives for students to complete using available internet sources.
What is a WebQuest?
High expectations, positive relationships with family and community, cultural sensitivity, active teaching methods, etc.
What are the characteristics of a culturally responsive classroom?
Remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating.
What are Bloom’s Taxonomy levels for asking questions on assessments?
Retelling or summarizing, evaluating predictions, examining questions that guided reading, reflecting on the content of the lesson, responding to the text through writing, responding to text through discussions.
What are the purposes of after-reading activities?
Words that appear rarely and are specialized to content areas.
What are tier three vocabulary words?
Determining accuracy, ability to synthesize information, determining reliability, and examining bias.
What are the strategies and techniques students need to evaluate websites?
1. A framework of designing instruction that integrates the content learning with added support for English Learners
2. Improves the delivery of instruction by having educators become aware of behaviors and practices that are effective and will make a difference in the language and academic growth of students
3. Provides a framework to observe teachers in the classroom.
What are the three ways the SIOP Model can be used to shelter instruction for English Learners?
Teachers use appropriate formal and informal assessment strategies with individuals and groups of the students to determine the impact of instructions on learning, to provide feedback, and to plan future instruction.
What is RIPTS #9 for assessment?
Students are placed intro groups no larger than four and each student is given a subtopic to research and after research the students present to the groups what they have learned. A good opportunity for students to become the teachers.
What is the Jigsaw reading activity?
Say the word, look for clues, ask yourself what the word might mean; think of possible synonym, put the new word in place of the unfamiliar word: does it make sense?
What is the SLAP Model?