Promoting literacy in play

When I was four my mother, father, sister, and I moved to California. My mother wrote my grandmother often, partly because she missed her terribly and partly because my mother relishes writing letters. Whenever she wrote, I sat beside her at the kitchen table and composed as many pages as she did, page after page of squiggly lines.Kathy Roskos is Assistant Professor, Department of Education, John Carroll University. Carol Vukelich is Associate Professor and Director of Inservice Education, College of Education, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.     

实践促进了我的课堂教学

高职高专的英语教学面临越来越多的困境:学习英语的高职高专的生源越来越少;学习英语的兴趣不大;生源的素质不高;学无用武之地。怎样改变学习的学习状态?如何激发学生学习英语的兴趣?这成了教师的一大课题。     

Mind the gap: Investigating test literacy and classroom literacy

Focusing on the 2006 examination paper on Richard III , this article starts by examining the assumptions about reading Shakespeare that inform the Key Stage 3 national tests for 14-year-olds in England. It then analyses one student's response to the test, contrasting this performance with evidence drawn from classroom observation and digital video data.     

优化课堂教学 促进有效学习——提高信息技术课堂教学有效性的策略研究

课堂教学改革几年来取得了实质性的进展,但是对新课程理念的理解不到位以及实施者缺乏必要的经验和能力等原因,课堂教学改革也出现了形式化、低效化现象,特别是在信息技术课堂中,这种现象犹为严重。如何提升信息技术课堂教学的有效性,促进学生三维目标的和谐发展,是我们广大一线信息技术教师必须要考虑的问题。笔者从自己的教学实践出发,对提高信息技术课堂教学有效性进行了若干策略研究。     

A play foundation for family literacy

This study was designed to determine the potential effects of a family literacy intervention program. The treatment was a five-month intervention with 15 families as they engaged in playful explorations with literacy materials, first in workshops and later in their homes. The program was designed to help families enhance the play context at home to offer children many opportunities to explore literacy-related objects through social interaction. Their selection of literacy-play materials encouraged family–child interactions through reading and through playfully using concrete literacy objects from the home environment. Strategies and activities offered to parents were those that would integrate play and literacy. Parents demonstrated the strategies and activities they learned in the workshops and used in their homes.     

信息技术课中的翻转课堂—游戏玩转课堂

翻转课堂是一种新的教与学的模式,这种新型的教学模式对于老师和学生来说都是一种新的尝试与体验。翻转课堂教学模式的科学之处,在于打破了教学领域中传统教学模式的讲授习惯,从单向的讲授,改为课前学生自主学习,在课堂上提问题与小组互动,启发学生自主思考与讨论,迅速帮助学生提高学习积极性,促进知识的吸收内化,让学生对学习内容快速了解吸收。     

Creating prop boxes to stimulate dramatic play and literacy development

The sign says OPEN and five excited preschoolers are at play in a thematically based dramatic center. Their teacher has transformed a corner of the room into a shoe store, complete with materials designed to support the children's early literacy development.Cathleen S. Soundy is with the College of Education, Temple University, and Phyllis Wolf Gallagher is with the Education Department, Holy Name College, Philadelphia, PA.     

Mapping the classroom emotional environment

Harvey and Evans (2003) have proposed that teachers’ emotional skills, as required in the classroom, can be organized into a five-dimensional model. Further research is necessary to validate this model and evaluate the importance of each dimension of teacher emotion competence for educational practice. Using a statistical method for mapping psychological constructs, teachers’ emotional practices were transformed into a ‘map’ with three spatial dimensions, which was supported by comparative validity checks. The nature of emotional practice was further investigated by administering a Q-Sort of emotional practice items to 100 teachers. Ten highly applicable clusters of emotional behavior across six profile patterns with teachers were identified. Authors’ model and the applicability of emotions were generally supported.     

Contributions of the emergent literacy environment to literacy outcomes for young children who are deaf

Specific characteristics of early literacy environments support hearing children's emergent literacy. The researchers investigated these characteristics' role in emergent literacy in young deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children, using the Early Language and Literacy Classroom Observation (ELLCO; M. W. Smith, Dickinson, Sangeorge, & Anastasopoulos, 2002). Eighteen self-contained classrooms of preschool, kindergarten, and first-grade DHH children (N = 40) were studied. Hierarchical linear analysis was used to examine study participants' classroom environment and growth in emergent literacy skills. Correlations suggested that classroom environment was more closely related to vocabulary and phonological awareness in DHH children than in typically hearing children. Major differences among classrooms were also indicated. However, growth in children's skills did not correlate strongly with attributes captured by the ELLCO. This suggests that classrooms promoting emergent literacy skills acquisition in DHH children may differ from classrooms of typically developing hearing children.     

Developing argumentation ability as a way to promote technological literacy

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of three instructional methods on students’ technological literacy (TL) and argumentation ability. Participants were 285 seventh grade Israeli boys and girls (12–13-year-old) who studied in 18 technology classes in four junior high schools. The three teaching methods were: (a) teaching technology by exposing students to structured argumentation (SA); (b) teaching technology by encouraging students to explain their reasoning in an unstructured way (UA), without explicit guidance regarding “what is a good argument” and “how to construct it”; (c) teaching technology in a “traditional” way, with no emphasis on argumentation (NA). Results indicate that the SA group significantly outperformed the other two groups regarding knowledge of technology, but no significant differences were found between the three groups on knowledge about technology. The SA group also outperformed the other two groups in argumentation.     

The literacy environment of preschool classrooms: contributions to children's emergent literacy growth

This study examined the relations among features of the classroom physical literacy environment (book materials, literacy area and writing materials) and psychological literacy environment (instructional support), and preschool children's gains in two areas of emergent literacy over an academic year. Results showed that features of the physical literacy environment had little direct association with children's gains in emergent literacy, with the exception of quality of literacy area being a positive and significant predictor of children's gains in alphabet knowledge (but not name‐writing ability). Rather, the physical and psychological literacy environment seem to be interdependent, particularly with respect to provision of writing materials. Specifically, presence of writing materials is positively and significantly associated with children's growth in alphabet knowledge and name‐writing ability only within the context of high‐quality, instructionally supportive classrooms. Educational implications are discussed.     

Triggering play: electronic literature in the English classroom

ABSTRACT

With the anticipated increase in narrative video games entering the English classroom, the particular features of the genre need added attention. One of these features is the stronger perceived relationship between a player and the character than a reader and a character. While this has benefits for effective storytelling, it also creates the possibility of stronger triggering of trauma in the player. We must consider how to make accessible narrative games that discuss potentially triggering themes while not compromising other features of the genre such as multiple storylines and experiences of the text.     

课堂教学的“无为”教学策略

留足够的时间和空间让学生去思考、创造、补充、回味和评价,这种＂无＂的正确运用,会生成学生学习兴趣和思维能力的＂有＂。     

Blurring the lines of play and work to create blended classroom learning experiences

Researchers exploring children’s perceptions of play in a prekindergarten and a K/1 classroom found a new category of classroom activities that combined elements of play and work. These blended learning activities were characterized by blurred lines between play and work, shared control of classroom activities, and spontaneity present in the learning experiences.     

以综合实践活动促物理课堂转型——以“比较材料的隔声性能”教学为例

综合实践活动是苏科版物理教科书编写的特色之一,它具有很强的自主性、综合性、开放性。开展综合实践活动旨在让学生通过简单的活动,形成物理观念,在体验科学探究的基本过程时训练科学思维,逐步学会运用物理方法研究、解决较为复杂的生活、生产问题,逐渐形成解决社会问题的责任感和使命感。综合实践活动的开展对推动课堂转型、提升学生物理核心素养具有积极的促进作用。     

Potential for play in a primary literacy curriculum

Abstract

The benefits of play in the learning and development of young children has long been recognized by researchers and early childhood educators. As new teachers face the challenges of increasingly diverse classrooms, in an increasingly demanding political climate, the potential of play has implications for teacher educators who prepare those new teachers. This study investigated literacy use during play in the researcher's culturally diverse first grade classroom, finding that children applied various functions of print, practiced skills, and explored concepts that had been introduced in the formal curriculum. These observations reinforce the notion that play encompasses many of the conditions necessary for literacy development and is a useful means of extending and supporting the formal literacy curriculum. © 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.     

Block play: Building a foundation for literacy

The role of block play in the development of reading and writing is presented and discussed. A literacy-enriched block-play center is described, and accompanying tables identify books and additional literacy materials suggested for integration into a block-play area. Additionally, children's use of literacy props in a block-play area is presented through observations made in two preschool classrooms. Samples of children's writing produced during spontaneous block-play sessions are included to support examples given in the text.     

依托实验教学中心平台 促进第二课堂的发展

第二课堂作为培养大学生创新能力的重要途径,在高等农业院校日益受到重视。以山东农业大学生命科学学院开展大学生第二课堂实践为例,总结了实验教学中心在开展第二课堂中的作用以及开展大学生第二课堂创新活动的具体举措,并就取得的成效和产生的效果进行了概述。     

浅谈如何优化英语课堂心理环境

良好的课堂心理环境是提高学生个性心理品质的需要,优化课堂心理环境的过程,有助于培养学生良好的心理素质,提高课堂教学的综合效益。提高教师自身心理素质,建立良好的人际关系,优化课堂教学艺术是基本的途径。