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.