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Nurturing Knowledge: Susan B. Neuman's University of Michigan WOW Professional Development Training - Case Study #1

This case study explores the importance of beginning literacy practices early in a child's life and addresses the risk factors faced by children from lower-income neighborhoods. It discusses the need for effective interventions and introduces WOW, an embedded multimedia program designed to promote vocabulary and concept knowledge in young children.

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Nurturing Knowledge: Susan B. Neuman's University of Michigan WOW Professional Development Training - Case Study #1

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  1. Nurturing Knowledge Susan B Neuman University of Michigan WOW Professional Development Training September 7, 2007

  2. Case Study #1: One Teacher’s Experience

  3. Why Begin Early?: The Opportunity Hypothesis • Learning to read and write: Developmentally appropriate practice • Begins at birth • Reading and writing occur interchangeably • Children need to understand the purposes of using literacy • Literacy practice must build on good early childhood practice

  4. Poverty…

  5. Hart and Risley… • Interactions…

  6. The Need Hypothesis: Risk factors • Stark, and triangulated differentials in access to print for children who come from middle- and lower-income neighborhoods • Resources, Language, Social Networking

  7. Beginning Kindergarten Students’ School Readiness Skills by Socioeconomic Status (SES) • Lowest SES Highest SES • Ability to recognize letters of alphabet 39% 85% • Ability to identify beginning sounds • of words 10% 51% • Identifies primary colors 69% 90% • Counts to 20 48% 68% • Writes own name 54% 76% • Amount of time having been read to • Prior to kindergarten 25 hours 1,000 hours • Accumulated experience with words 13 million 45 million • ____________________________________________________________

  8. What do we need to do? • Better understand the mechanisms that underlie risk factors • Create better connections to effective interventions

  9. What is literacy? • Content knowledge • Procedural Knowledge • Dispositions

  10. wonder

  11. discovery

  12. inquiry

  13. building

  14. curiosity

  15. more curiosity

  16. problem solving

  17. creativity

  18. sharing

  19. joy

  20. Current Pre-K programs

  21. Current Programs

  22. The World of Words • Conceptual knowledge and vocabulary= knowledge, skills and dispositions

  23. What is WOW? • An embedded multimedia program designed to promote vocabulary, and concept knowledge in content areas that include health, science, math, social studies • Improve child outcomes

  24. What is it and Why? • Children learn through multiple input channels • One medium can add to another and build important cognitive strategies • Picture superiority effect

  25. What Do We Know About Children’s Learning? • Active (children need to respond overtly and often) • Briskly paced to cover a substantial amount of material • Motivating • Appropriately challenging (the term we use is ‘challenging but achievable’) • Eliciting frequent and corrective feedback • Well-sequenced to provide clear accountability and consistent follow-up

  26. What Types of Responses Do We Encourage? • Choral Response • Individual Response • Open-ended Responses

  27. What Does an Embedded Multimedia Program Include: • Video clips—targeted to content learning • Specially written information books • Picture cards and pocket charts • Take home books • WowPhone

  28. WOW Phone

  29. How is the program organized? • Step 1: Get Set • Step 2: Give meaning • Step 3: Build Bridges • Step 4: Step Back

  30. Lesson Sequence • Tuning In • Content Clip • Information Book • Picture Cards—Word Sorts, “Time for a Challenge” • Writing • Take home book • Progress-monitoring

  31. knowledge seekers

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