I was reading one of the daily newspapers recently and came upon a comment made by our goodly Minister of Education with his plans on implementing the presence of soldiers in the schools to help with violence. What about violence among teachers would he be sending soldiers or would he split himself into several pieces to grace us with his presence?
I have been saying this ever since at our staff meetings but administrators have never taken heed even though we had several violent acts being done at our school among other felonies. Now the ministry sees it fit to implement the same idea.
I even brought to them that they should have time tabled religious education at the school nobody took me on.
Well i guess with the introduction of the laptops students would find time not to fight but blog, and wiki in their spare time as well.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
This Reading Programme
Another semester of this programme is about to end and I have a few concerns that probably some intelligent person could answer.At the end of this programme would there be refresher programmes pertaining to the use of technologies since this is an ever evolving phenomenon, all the students in this class did not catch everything and also assessment using technology was not done. How can we teach using technology and are clueless about assessing using the same technology?
Does anyone has any information on assessment using technology? This is of interest to me and I do not want to look like a fool after assigning work to the students still have to use pen and paper to assess.
How possible would it be to assess using multiple intelligences using the computer. I am at a lost with this part of it. So for the time being am I suppose to just teach and no assessment.
Help is needed at least for me.
Does anyone has any information on assessment using technology? This is of interest to me and I do not want to look like a fool after assigning work to the students still have to use pen and paper to assess.
How possible would it be to assess using multiple intelligences using the computer. I am at a lost with this part of it. So for the time being am I suppose to just teach and no assessment.
Help is needed at least for me.
Students and Remembering
What is it that students cannot remember what is and was taught to them . Students would be taught repeatedly the same concept and when it is for revising "trouble" steps in. Is it the foods that they eat are having havoc on their brains. I really believes that sometimes. Diet really have an impact on learning. I remember there was a study done in Jamaica about marijuana and students remembering and it was proven that the children of parents who did marijuana were top of the class.Point for discussion (ha Ha).
Although I do advocate the use of multiple intelligences, this concept is relatively new so then may I ask what was around when I was going to school. Good topic for discussion
Although I do advocate the use of multiple intelligences, this concept is relatively new so then may I ask what was around when I was going to school. Good topic for discussion
The End is Near
Finally I can see the light at the end of the tunnel with this programme. I have learnt a lot and did enjoy it as well. I do have some concerns though.
I think that I needed more time to practice these web 2.0 tools. I do not think that I have a real grip on it as yet for I am still not confident with all of them. The Wiki is still not very clear to me but with time it will be perfected. I did have problems with the blog but after figuring it out for myself it is common place now that I was not happy with the notion that the blogs must be spread out over a period of time. I want to blog and blog and blog, so I know with the wiki I would get there.
This technology is exciting and I cant wait to really show my students and even some of the teachers at the school of the new literacies we must use to enhance learning .
I think that I needed more time to practice these web 2.0 tools. I do not think that I have a real grip on it as yet for I am still not confident with all of them. The Wiki is still not very clear to me but with time it will be perfected. I did have problems with the blog but after figuring it out for myself it is common place now that I was not happy with the notion that the blogs must be spread out over a period of time. I want to blog and blog and blog, so I know with the wiki I would get there.
This technology is exciting and I cant wait to really show my students and even some of the teachers at the school of the new literacies we must use to enhance learning .
Saturday, July 17, 2010
Inaccessibility of Books to do Assignment
I am here wondering how to get the information to complete the assignment for the 30th when there is just a handful of books on the topic in the library and these books are being passed within circles of friends and some students do not even have a chance to see not even the cover. This cannot be humane . I mean everybody wants to hand in an assignment that is worthy of good reading and marks as well.
Students we cannot be so selfish and intend to succeed then we wonder why we succeed here and our generations don't well it is the seeds that we sow. So to those who have the ICT books use and return so others can have an opportunity to catch a glimpse of even the cover.
To the lecturers, the library web site is not opening to access any literature so I really do not know how to access the material worthy of you all reading.
I know this may not be the place to write this but I sent messages to the lecturers and did not receive a response. So I blogged. Sorry if I offend anyone.
Students we cannot be so selfish and intend to succeed then we wonder why we succeed here and our generations don't well it is the seeds that we sow. So to those who have the ICT books use and return so others can have an opportunity to catch a glimpse of even the cover.
To the lecturers, the library web site is not opening to access any literature so I really do not know how to access the material worthy of you all reading.
I know this may not be the place to write this but I sent messages to the lecturers and did not receive a response. So I blogged. Sorry if I offend anyone.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Blogging
Thank God is only Five more blogs I have to do . I mean I really like the blogosphere but I want my holidays too. I need some time to read and I am not getting the time.I am just crazy over the use of the internet and what it can offer.
Can you imagine that I was able to find out for myself how to hang references and was even more elated when I was able to show two other classmates how to do it.
The internet is like this you just have to click and reverse until you get a hang of what it should be. Shame to say that sometimes I am on line all day especially the social networks.
I learnt how to hang the references as requires in APA yea yea
Can you imagine that I was able to find out for myself how to hang references and was even more elated when I was able to show two other classmates how to do it.
The internet is like this you just have to click and reverse until you get a hang of what it should be. Shame to say that sometimes I am on line all day especially the social networks.
I learnt how to hang the references as requires in APA yea yea
Laptops in School/ SEA students
I am patiently waiting for this laptop distribution to happen come on DR. Gopiesingh. Why the push back to September. you are keeping me back from extolling myself on the blogosphere lol. Teachers should also be assigned laptops cause I need one..
This can be helpful to me as well as the children because I would be opportuned to practise my web 2.0 tools with the students. How important and more knowledgeable I would become to know that I have to show them how to set up and make use of a blog.
I wonder though how many teachers would be able to access their teaching and students' learning through the use of the technology. ( The new technology mentor teacher at school yea yea)
The laptops would be taken home and this is what I am afraid of. The students now have a feasible excuse why no home work cannot be done. Don't the authorities think that it would be easier to steal to and from school . It would become just like the text book rental in school presently. Some of the books are sold as second hand texts. No checks and balances are in place. would these laptops be outfitted with earphone and the accessories needed to carry out the teaching of web 2.0 tools usage
I am very sleepy but I have to complete watching Tobago Heritage Operning night performance. I cannot find any books to do my assignment so I am watching my heritage
This can be helpful to me as well as the children because I would be opportuned to practise my web 2.0 tools with the students. How important and more knowledgeable I would become to know that I have to show them how to set up and make use of a blog.
I wonder though how many teachers would be able to access their teaching and students' learning through the use of the technology. ( The new technology mentor teacher at school yea yea)
The laptops would be taken home and this is what I am afraid of. The students now have a feasible excuse why no home work cannot be done. Don't the authorities think that it would be easier to steal to and from school . It would become just like the text book rental in school presently. Some of the books are sold as second hand texts. No checks and balances are in place. would these laptops be outfitted with earphone and the accessories needed to carry out the teaching of web 2.0 tools usage
I am very sleepy but I have to complete watching Tobago Heritage Operning night performance. I cannot find any books to do my assignment so I am watching my heritage
Friday, July 9, 2010
The Masters Programme In Reading
These are my thoughts on the programme.
The idea of having the programme done at the masters level is highly applauded by the organisers of such but I personally think that enough is not done to prepare us for what we are to encounter at the end of this programme when we are placed in those schools.
Let us take a look at the core of the programme:Reading In The Content Area. This course should have been done for one year at least two semesters but definitely not one semester we need more practice and workshops in this area.
In the ICT aspect one session for one web 2.0 tool is inadequate . I am yet to understand the blog properly . I always have to be playing around with it until I get it. (Mind you this is not practice this is definitely not knowing what to do and fishing , sometime the net is full and sometimes it is empty).
This area is one that I do share the most interest in because I have to interact with the natives of technology apart from it being exciting for me . I am even thinking of pursuing a complete computer course to be ready for these students. I do not want to look like a fool before them.
So, my take on this is that more time should be given to these courses so more practice can be done. I want to be ready without blotches.
The idea of having the programme done at the masters level is highly applauded by the organisers of such but I personally think that enough is not done to prepare us for what we are to encounter at the end of this programme when we are placed in those schools.
Let us take a look at the core of the programme:Reading In The Content Area. This course should have been done for one year at least two semesters but definitely not one semester we need more practice and workshops in this area.
In the ICT aspect one session for one web 2.0 tool is inadequate . I am yet to understand the blog properly . I always have to be playing around with it until I get it. (Mind you this is not practice this is definitely not knowing what to do and fishing , sometime the net is full and sometimes it is empty).
This area is one that I do share the most interest in because I have to interact with the natives of technology apart from it being exciting for me . I am even thinking of pursuing a complete computer course to be ready for these students. I do not want to look like a fool before them.
So, my take on this is that more time should be given to these courses so more practice can be done. I want to be ready without blotches.
The Importance of A Basal Reader/Improving Reading Fluency
Basal readers are an important aspect of Reading Fluency development although some educators have ruled it out completely. I think that it can be married with what other stimuli that the teacher wants to use with the students.With the basal reader the vocabulary is controlled at the level of the child and unfolds in stages. All the stories do not have to be used but select the ones that are of interest and familiar to the students.
These stories can be read and reread using peer reading or even at home with their parents and siblings which would increase their fluency and ultimately improve comprehension.
The teacher can set goals as to what aspect of fluency they want the students to achieve. For example if it is intonation, speed or reading with a smooth flow.
So to those educators who think that the basal reader is not important it has its place because the vocabulary is controlled
These stories can be read and reread using peer reading or even at home with their parents and siblings which would increase their fluency and ultimately improve comprehension.
The teacher can set goals as to what aspect of fluency they want the students to achieve. For example if it is intonation, speed or reading with a smooth flow.
So to those educators who think that the basal reader is not important it has its place because the vocabulary is controlled
The Wrongs Of The Ed System in TNT
The education system in Trinidad and Tobago needs an overhauling for things to work better and for children to become successful. by overhauling I mean removing the "jokers" in the pack and replacing thwem by those who do share an interest in the welfare of the students and they becoming successful. Our education system is a testing system "every Monday morning is a test" and still we do not assess the students differently. In every workshop you attend they talk about and encourage Multiple Intelligences yet when it is time to assess it is not applied . There is always one way of assessing which is pencil and paper.Don't we have among us students who are bodily kinesthetic etc and should be assessed differently. Who is looking into this? no one yet when the grand master of primary school exams SEA is released you can only hear about those who made it to the top one hundred and placed in the so called prestige schools. They are the ones given all the accolades. Nobody talks about those who couldn't read the questions on the paper and were assessed in the same way as those who could have.
This is such an unfair thing to do to these children. i hope that with the advent of the Reading Specialists employed at the schools throughout the country after training would make a big difference. get real technocrats
This is such an unfair thing to do to these children. i hope that with the advent of the Reading Specialists employed at the schools throughout the country after training would make a big difference. get real technocrats
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Guided Reading Strategies
I found that this was necessary and the way in which she manages the class was awesome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txC-Qo_8GiU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txC-Qo_8GiU
Developing Reading Fluency
Fluent reading is an essential component in reading. it is one of the five pillars of reading.
Developing Reading Fluency is directly related to automaticity. If when a child reads he has to stop to figure out the words all the time then it would impede his comprehension of the text.
Decoding skills must be thought to the students before embarking on fluency of reading the text. if this takes priority then the students would be able to read and have a good command of the comprehension of the text.
i have sought the following video on the topic for your viewing.
Developing Reading Fluency is directly related to automaticity. If when a child reads he has to stop to figure out the words all the time then it would impede his comprehension of the text.
Decoding skills must be thought to the students before embarking on fluency of reading the text. if this takes priority then the students would be able to read and have a good command of the comprehension of the text.
i have sought the following video on the topic for your viewing.
The Role Of Reading Specialists
The role of a Reading Specialist is of great importance in every school / educational institution globally. From my perspective their role is to assist the content area teachers with the delivery of their disciplined subject by incorporating the reading skills.
Students today are not the same but yet the same archaic methods of teaching are used in schools to deliver a changing curriculum, hence the students are a standstill when it comes to learning.the children today are technology students and we as "soon to be reading specialists" must take this into consideration or else we may have to exchange the seats with the students when we go to the classrooms.
The reading specialists must move with the changing times in order to be prepared for our native technology students
Students today are not the same but yet the same archaic methods of teaching are used in schools to deliver a changing curriculum, hence the students are a standstill when it comes to learning.the children today are technology students and we as "soon to be reading specialists" must take this into consideration or else we may have to exchange the seats with the students when we go to the classrooms.
The reading specialists must move with the changing times in order to be prepared for our native technology students
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