Notes from ELAR Masters Classes

I’ve been trying to figure out a good place to keep some of the notes I took while getting my Masters degree in Education. I think I’ll just keep editing this post and keep them here, so I can come back to them later when I want to.

People

  • Piaget: cognitive development
  • Vygotsky: social learning theory + ZPD (zone of proximal development)
  • Bloom: taxonomy (of levels of thinking)
  • Maslow: hierarchy of needs
  • Garder: multiple intelligences

Concepts

  • constructivism – student-centered learning
  • cooperative learning vs collaboration (teacher)
  • inclusive instruction – inquiry/discovery
  • formative assesment vs summative
  • goals vs objectives

long ago fallen out of favor: pedantic teaching

Sign seen in classroom: “Fair is not everyone getting the same thing. Fair is everyone getting what they need.”

Reading Comprehension Strategies

  • Previewing
  • Predicting
  • Deriving Main Idea
  • Summarizing
  • Inferring
  • Imaging
  • Repairing

Techniques for Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies

  • CLOZE
  • DRA
  • DR-TA
  • FELS
  • Responsive Elaboration
  • Text Walk
  • Study Guide
  • Anticipation Guide
  • Applying and Extending
  • Creating Graphic Organizers
  • PReP
  • Structured Overview
  • Survey Technique
  • Think-Alouds
  • KWL Plus
  • SQ3R

Check on this: Teaching Grammar by Hagemann (contextualizing grammar)

Students can name the parts of speech from Jabberwok

Learning grammar is about practicing usage (toward better performance), not learning rules.

Patrick Hartwell – 5 uses of grammar

  1. set of formal patterns
  2. branch of linguistics (study / science)
  3. linguistic etiquette (bad grammar vs good grammar)
  4. school grammar
  5. stylistic grammar (strunk & white)