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The Junior Learner

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 , 2004. p.14. What do we already know about our Junior Learners?. Who is the Junior Learner?. Activity:.

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The Junior Learner

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  1. The Junior Learner Building the context

  2. Framework for Instruction Literacy For Learning, The Report of the Expert Panel on Literacy in Grades 4 to 6 in Ontario, 2004. p.14

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

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

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

  6. Ideas for the classroom

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

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

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