Friday, June 29, 2007
Chapter 16, Adolescent Literacy
When reading chapter 16, I have to say that there are especially two areas with which I wholeheartdly agree. Those areas of the chapter are in maintaining high expectations and making it real. I feel, both through learning in the MAT program and my experience teaching, that maintaining high expectations for all students is the primary step in attacking achievement gap. I also feel that relevancy for students is extremely important for their engagement. The area of the chapter that was new for me and the most intriguing was the use of a bridge map.
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I have to agree with you and the book, Chris making the material relevant to the student, and showing them why it useful. I know as a sub I was always getting asked "Why do I need to know this". I always tried to give students answers that displayed the real life application of the material. They seemed more interested knowing that the material was something they could use.
And we have all heard kids complain about material being to easy.
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