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Sunday, August 28, 2011
About Myself:
Hello! My name is Maria Thompson. Welcome to the wonderful world of ESL and to my educational blog for EDU 585 class. Please feel free to share any suggestions and ideas that will help me improve my first blogging experience and create an effective educational instrument for our ESL community of learners.
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This past summer I went to New York and visited the Statue of Liberty at Ellis Island. As an immigrant myself, it was a very humbling experience to read the words of Emma Lazarus at the bottom of the statue. It was also a big reminder of how much I owe to this country and of my clear responsibility to help and guide my ELL students through their language and cultural journey.
ReplyDeleteReading and learning in this class about Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) has had a major impact on my professional life. I believe that CRT is of paramount importance to demonstrate our leadership promoting culturally responsive practices within our community of learners. In particular, I think that our teachers would benefit from the benefits of applying the following principles of Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) by Geneva Gay (2000):
ReplyDelete1. Validating
2. Comprehensive
3. Multidimensional
4. Empowering
5. Transformative
6. Emancipatory
http://www.intime.uni.edu/multiculture/curriculum/culture/teaching.htm
Hello, fellow teachers and learners! I want to share this list showing the different technology tools available out there in your school communities. I thought that it may help you to quickly visualize a “technology menu” and to inquire about what is available in your particular school and/or district and how to access these technology tools and resources.
ReplyDelete• Email, Webmail, Classroom Webpage
• Video Conferencing
• Your District’s Teacher’s Moodle Community (with many features included)
• Mahara (e-portfolio system)
• Technology Professional Developments (CPS Clickers, Social Networking, etc.)
• SharePoint
• A/R, EIAF, and eBooks.
• Other resources: Discovery Education, CILC (Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration), Atomic Learning, Soundzabound, etc.
Good luck with your technology search!
Hi again, fellow learners! I want to share a useful application that I have learned to update and organized your classroom library. Based on the Reading Standards, these are the following Lexile ranges for elementary grades:
ReplyDeleteK (100-225), 1st (225-450), 2nd (450-620), 3rd (620-790), 4th (790-875), and 5th (875-980)
Using the website offered in this blog under the section of Literacy Bag of Websites (“Find the lexile of a book”), you can identify each book of your classroom library by lexile and rearrange the way your books are displayed to make sure that your students are reading books appropriate to their level.
You can even arrange for a “vertical collaboration and sharing of books” between grade levels in your school. Everyone can benefit from this!
Hi everyone! I am adding this comment about using a leveled texts equivalency chart to determine the reading level of a text because of its practicality when you are looking for the "right" book for a student. When children read, I believe that it is important that the books they choose (or you select) are challenging enough but at the same time have an adequate reading level to avoid frustration. That is why I want to share this site titled Text Correlation Chart as it offers a useful correspondence between the stages of reading, the grade level equivalent, DRAs, Lexiles, Rigby, Reading Recovery, Fountas & Pinnell, and many others.
ReplyDeletehttp://title1.spps.org/sites/283c935b-2b13-4da8-9fee-f4f5ea72b44d/uploads/TEXT_CORRELATION_CHART.pdf
Hello! I want to share an effective resource that connects MAP RITs with the corresponding lesson plans and fabulous resources. I think it is an important tool as we assess the students with MAP three times a year and share the scores with the parents in our parent/teachers conferences. It can assist teachers to effectively differentiate instruction in the classroom and it can also help parents working with their children at home. These are the two websites, one for MAP Reading and one for MAP Math:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.sowashco.k12.mn.us/ro/Pages/studentlinks/map/reading.htm
http://www.sowashco.k12.mn.us/ro/Pages/studentlinks/map/
You can also find these links to the right hand of the blog under my Literacy Bag of Websites (A MAP Reading Tool) and my Math Corner (A MAP Math Tool).