It may be a holiday week, but things sure don’t slow down when there is so much great stuff happening for education! Trying to capture it all in 10 points is hard!
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Aunty Alice's curator insight,
October 24, 2013 5:27 PM
Just as speaking is the outcome of listening, so writing is the outcome of reading, not the other way round. Listening to the student should also include "listening" to their writing. ie., analyse what they are saying and how they are doing it. When students evaluate their own work, the teacher should listen and guide them to ways of improving it, whether it be punctuation, paragraphing, spelling, or word or subject knowledge. This is how we bring students on board and empower them to learn.
Aunty Alice's curator insight,
October 31, 2013 4:49 PM
Listening to students has two aspects; listening to what they say orally, and 'listening' to their writing which is only another way of talking, only through a code. Just as learning to speak is tied closely to listening to what is said and being exposed to words that help one to think better, so writing is the same and relies on reading "or listening" to what others say and how they say it to express clear meaning. The two subjects, reading and writing, are closlely intertwined yet we compartmentalize them in the literacy curriculum. An example of adults thinking they know what is best for children.
Nuno Ricardo Oliveira's curator insight,
December 28, 2013 11:53 AM
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