The Junior Learner Building the context. Framework for Instruction Literacy For Learning, The Report...

The Junior Learner

Building the context

Framework for Instruction

Literacy For Learning, The Report of the Expert Panel on Literacy in Grades 4 to 6 in Ontario,

2004. p.14

Who is the Junior Learner?

Activity:

What do we already know about our Junior Learners?

The Junior Learner: Context

prior knowledge and experiences personal and cultural identity family context technology gender

escalating academic demands

Physical development

Social development

Emotional development

Cognitive development

The Junior Learner: Characteristics

Activity: Fishbone & Gallery Walk Record relevant activities to use in your

classroom on the rectangles of the fishbone. Use the context & characteristics (handouts)

as the supporting details.

Fishbone Organizer

Organizes ideas into types of classifications of main ideas and sub ideas

Head circle is issue/idea/key question that acts as focus for the thinking

Rectangles or bones are classifiers or main ideas

Smaller bones are the supporting details or examples/ideas

Let’s Synthesize!

We need to plan for: movement and activity group and individual space discussion and talk media studies technological literacy using a critical lens

If I have one tenet in teaching, it is that no one can MAKE … a student learn anything…

You can only provide an environment for possibilities and hope.

Susan Ohanian, Who’s in Charge? 1994

Lunch

12:40 – 1:05

Door prizes drawn at 1:05 – must be in the room.