Shawne Murphy
Week 5
Chapter 4
Literary Luminator and Essence Extractor
Week 5
Chapter 4
Literary Luminator and Essence Extractor
Literary Luminator
“…start from where they are and go together to someplace else,” (Nieto, 2010, p. 103).
As an educator, we need to work with students and the knowledge that they hold in order to teach the students something new and add on to their existing schema.
“…the notion of community is at the center of learning,” (Nieto, 2010, p. 112).
The classroom is a community setting where all students should be comfortable in which they can learn and express themselves freely.
“…we never ask them who they are and where they want to go,” (Nieto, 2010, p. 114).
It is important to go the extra mile to get to know each one of your students personally so you can know who they are, what they want to do and what goals they have for themselves so as a professional, you can help them work to achieve those goals.
Essence Extractor
Accommodation and negotiation are an essential mix to create success in the learning environment.
The first quote stuck out to me when I was reading. Having great lesson plans is a start to an enriching classroom but are the plans purposeful for the individual? Students bring a lot to the classroom and it is our job to find out what that is and build from it otherwise our lessons are meaningless to the student.
ReplyDelete-Christina
I highly recommend the text, The Classroom of Choice: Giving Students What They Need and Getting What You Want, by Jonathan Erwin, as a resource for building and maintaining effective and nurturing classroom communities. It incorporates William Glasser's Choice Theory which says, basically, that all behaviors have a purpose, and both positive and negative behaviors result from whether or not student's basic needs are met in the classroom.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.amazon.com/Classroom-Choice-Giving-Students-Getting/dp/0871208296
-Elizabeth
Sounds like a great book! I love that theory that all behaviors have a purpose, positive and negative. I strongly believe that and I would be really interested in reading that one...thanks Elizabeth!
ReplyDelete-Laura