Teaching Students Ecological Literacy In the Secondary English Classroom

Then I introduced the format of a report with an activity in which students were asked to re-order some sentence strips so that a coherent report on comparison between advantages and disadvantages of organic farming could be formed. 1. Explanation According Brown and Armstrong, "explaining is an attempt to provide understanding of a problem to others." (1984: 122). In other words, the objective of explanation is that students can get what the teacher wants to say. In the beginning of my lesson…

relatable feel. In fact, some students usually find the voice chosen as the “character narrator” humorous, which also adds to the experience. Perhaps the most intense form of audio aide a teacher can employ in the English classroom is an actual recording of a speech or poem. Hearing Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his famous “I Have a Dream” speech from the speakers of a classroom computer is much more powerful than having a student reading it aloud. The students can feel as if they were…

votes accordingly. Oftentimes, people do not even know they have been acted-upon by the media. Media literate people do not have quite as much trouble interpreting similar messages, for they are aware of the pervasive nature of the media. Media literacy courses allow people to hone their critical thinking skills and make informed decisions. These people are able to distinguish between fact and fiction, or at least recognize the differentiation between the two. They are able to examine the messages…

Students can learn a number of things in the English classroom - current events, multiculturalism, self-reflection and discovery, analysis, communication, technology - and my goal and teaching philosophy is to stretch these bounds of the English classroom so that students are getting a true and limitless learning experience. What I perceive as the nearly infinite flexibility of Language Arts as a subject matter is a main reason I am entering the field. Through the study of literature and the development…

improvement. Check the student understanding during the lesson and at the end of the lesson provide specific feedback to help the student succeed. Grouping Structures and Techniques Before implementing grouping in an ELL classroom, there are three things that need to be thought about “the teaching context, the teaching content and the individual learner” (Mustfa, 2002). After the decision to use grouping has been made an educator must figure out what outcome they want from their students. ELL educators…

“Critical Literacy in the Classroom” (2005), was written by Ann S. Beck, an English teacher at Camosun College in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. This article explains that it is imperative for teachers to understand the concepts of critical literacy as well as to achieve a critical teaching approach. The author’s main focus was to address and define the importance of teaching critical literacy as an educational practice by approaching dialogue (social act), reflection (critical literacy), and textual…

money, time and/or effort to ensure that students are prepared to face the world with as much media literacy skills as possible to be full participants in society (Jenkins et al., 2006). To do this, educators and leaders must insure that there are countless resources to teach new media literacy, whether in school, after-school programs or even at home. Teachers, parents, and after-school caregivers all have a responsibility and a role to educate students and nurture their new media skills (Jenkins…

Providing resource classrooms with sufficient technology can help all students learn in a much more productive forum. James Hartley (2007) who is a research professor at Keele University, stated, successful learning requires certain skills. Students cannot successfully obtain the skills they need for learning if they are not presented with the technical tools needed to be successful. Hartley’s article goes on to present the importance of learning reading, spelling, writing, music and thinking…

suggests a very real problem: how do instructors equip such students with the technology-specific literacy skills they will need to thrive in an increasingly digital world, and at the same time justify to the public the significant investment necessary to create computerized classroom space? The intent of this essay is not to offer universal solutions to this problem, but rather to bring the experiences of one particular computerized classroom, both positive and negative, into dialogue with the numerous…

science, students can use and create visuals to help them understand how different things work together to create a whole. In English, students can be involved in a discussion of what goes in to a good term paper. By playing around with the elements themselves, they will be more apt to understand how and why they are important. Stiggins (2012) suggests using charts that illustrate the analytical process and “highlight analytical inferences” (2012, p. 52). This can be helpful as a guide for students practicing…