The Junior Learner Building the context

Framework for Instruction Literacy For Learning, The Report of the Expert Panel on Literacy in Grades 4 to 6 in Ontario, p.14

Who is the Junior Learner? Activity: What do we already know about our Junior Learners?

The Junior Learner: Context prior knowledge and experiences personal and cultural identity family context technology gender escalating academic demands

Physical development Social development Emotional development Cognitive development The Junior Learner: Characteristics

Activity: Fishbone & Gallery Walk Record relevant activities to use in your classroom on the rectangles of the fishbone. Use the context & characteristics (handouts) as the supporting details. Fishbone Organizer  Organizes ideas into types of classifications of main ideas and sub ideas  Head circle is issue/idea/key question that acts as focus for the thinking  Rectangles or bones are classifiers or main ideas  Smaller bones are the supporting details or examples/ideas

Let’s Synthesize! We need to plan for: movement and activity group and individual space discussion and talk media studies technological literacy using a critical lens

If I have one tenet in teaching, it is that no one can MAKE … a student learn anything… You can only provide an environment for possibilities and hope. Susan Ohanian, Who’s in Charge? 1994

Lunch 12:40 – 1:05 Door prizes drawn at 1:05 – must be in the room.