Knowledge, Understanding and Skills in Literacy, Numeracy and Ict and Their Impact on My Practice

Explain why it is important to provide opportunities for learners to develop their English, mathematics, ICT and wider skills.

Within my school teaching literacy takes place in everyday classroom. The format of this teaching varies to include different activities for each day. Certain aspects of literacy are taught every week. The teachers are to ensure that the work planned is appropriate for the age stage and ability of the children. They use strategies such as talk partners and small group work to allow children to develop their oral skills and ability to communicate and cooperate with their peers. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition of effective oracy skills in the early years and foundation phase. Role play areas are set up in partnership with the children so that they can practice speaking Listening and drama based activities within a meanful context.

ICT is used by higher level teaching assistant (HLTA) to support children with special needs, such as children with hearing impairments to help them communicate with others and participate in activities in classrooms. ACE Centre Advisory Trust, (1999) said “Students with special educational needs are able to accomplish tasks working at their own pace” with assistive technology. Hearing aids and ICT are used to support those with hearing lost to enhance hearing

Also, this helps you as well, because, you are using your knowledge to come up with activities that children will enjoy, and also will go home with something new i.e. skills ,information etc.

Content area literacy is something that I see relating to my career in the classroom. Prior to reading the first chapter in our text, I did not understand what the course would be about or even what “content area literacy” fully meant. Literacy has always meant to me the ability to read, write, and articulate, however, I had not connected listening into that as well. Also, knowing historical or background information on a text has always been important and interesting to me individually even if presented as separate information by the teacher or professor simply because I enjoy history and learning about authors of the texts used in my English courses. After reading the first chapter and viewing the videos, however, I understand more now how these two things are essential parts of what it means to be literate and how that literacy applies to content. In English courses, there is a lot of terminology

The researcher’s focus is to examine the effects of the access of versatile teaching tools that will increase literacy instruction (Ruefman, Daniel 2015).

Readings and websites, set in this subject, have showed that I lack the basic knowledge of constructing literacy communication skills.

The specific area routine I would help the child with language disorder is circle time and outdoor play. For circle time I will read books and sing to the children. By reading the children a book and ask them many questions about the book and what they learned from the book,. By reading the children and asking question will help the child with recipitve and expreesive language skills .the child with language disordrer is I will sit near the chid that has lagaue disorder and make shore that the child is paying attention. Also I will read the same book twice in one week so the child with language disorder can recognize the book.Also I will sing to the children and make shore the child with language disorder is participating with us . I will

Publications – I am currently employed as a state ranking HSC English and Business Studies tutor. This has allowed me to refine my written and verbal communications skills. As a private tutor I enjoy building relationships with students and consistently seek advice and feedback to improve my skills as a tutor. I would love to aid the publications team in providing advice to university students as I have greatly benefitted myself from reading the first years guide that was published this

I am in a new school district this year and I am require to give spelling test to my 8th grade reading students. I am currently using the same system that the other teachers are using and I despise it! The students are given a list of words on a worksheet on Monday, then Friday they turn in the worksheet and are given the spelling test. After reading about Making Words, I would

I will aim to develop a professional learning community (PLC) with my fellow teachers, which would aim to support the students’ literacy learning through peer sharing of literacy strategies, shared planning time and reflections on practice (Mundy, Howe & Kupczynski, 2015). A PLC would foster and strengthen teacher relationships at school by giving teachers a space to voice their opinions, concerns and experiences in a supportive working environment. Through this collaborative and reflective practice, the students at my school will benefit from an enriched set of literacy strategies and lesson plans which have been developed by teachers of differing backgrounds, experiences and expertise (Gray, 2010). This reflects AITSL Standard 6.3 – “Engage with colleagues and improve practice” (AITSL, 2014). Thus, through collaborating with my colleagues in a PLC, my literacy strategies and those of my colleagues will be widened and strengthened, aiming to improve student literacy outcomes and develop teacher

Selina Ali is working in the Walton Centre. She is not only responsible to introduce IT courses to the students, who have learning disabilities. She also needs to update and pass on the course details to tutors. Additionally, she is required to completethe course end report when the course is finished quarterly.

I understand the importance of visual aids in helping with the learning of numeracy, I know how to use number lines, how to use the grid method and how to perform chunking. If a child is struggling with a task I can break the task down in to easier simple tasks. I am confident with most mathematical language and if I am uncertain of something I pick it up quickly once I see it in use

The researcher will sample two schools in the same area with one school employing new literacy instruction, and the other continuing to use traditional methods. The new literacy instruction used will include technology such as e-pals, blogs, wikis, and podcasts (McPherson, et al., 2006) and the teacher will use them for instruction in reading comprehension, reading and writing communication skills, and vocabulary development.

In an attempt to build a stronger foundation for teachers and improve the educational outcomes of future students, the Australian Government has introduced a literacy and numeracy readiness test. It is aimed at pre-graduate teachers to ensure that they have high enough literacy and numeracy skills to successfully meet the needs of the classroom environment.