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Chapter 13 Student Attitudes: Encouraging Content Literacy

Chapter 13 Student Attitudes: Encouraging Content Literacy. Agenda. Good News Jeremy Warren Vann Scholarship Educational Current Events:  Alisa Long Steven Singletary Chapter Portion: Elizabeth DePriest P. 268-275 Sally Batson P. 275-282. Factors that affect motivation. Expectancy

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Chapter 13 Student Attitudes: Encouraging Content Literacy

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  1. Chapter 13Student Attitudes: Encouraging Content Literacy

  2. Agenda • Good News • Jeremy Warren Vann Scholarship • Educational Current Events:  • Alisa Long • Steven Singletary • Chapter Portion: • Elizabeth DePriest P. 268-275 • Sally Batson P. 275-282

  3. Factors that affect motivation • Expectancy • Certainty-When actual events are what students expect, arousal is low- present the unexpected • Time- Immediate expectancies are more likely to motivate than Intermediate or Remote. • Desirability- Valence—expectancy of pleasure

  4. Relationship of valence to expectancy of success Valence Low High High Expectancy of Success Low

  5. Factors that affect motivation • Incentives • Symbolic • Material • Psychological • Guidelines • Use a variety of incentives • Individualiz incentives • Don’t use incentives when they are not needed • Provide incentives as soon as possible after the desired behavior

  6. Assessing Reading Interests • Use existing interests to attract students to your content • General interest inventory • Content interest inventory

  7. Constructing a Content Interest Inventory • Make a list of interesting subtopics • Identify materials for each area • Add a few blanks at the end of the inventory-open ended • Word process the inventory • Decide what form students’ responses will take.

  8. Administering a Content Interest Inventory • Make your purpose clear • Read the inventory aloud as students respond

  9. Interpreting the results • Can be calculated like a GPA • Interpret same way-3.0 being a strong attitude

  10. Promoting Content Literacy • No guarantees

  11. Create a print-rich environment • Classroom library • Displaying books • Quote of the day

  12. Give students a chance to read • Content area Sustained Silent Reading (SSR)

  13. SSR Guidelines • Make the purpose of SSR clear • Define acceptable materials • Encourage students to select materials in advance • Announce the time limit • Prohibit studying • Enforce silence • Participate in SSR your self • Avoid accountability • Link SSR to the Content Literacy Interest inventory

  14. Read alouds • Brief selections • Carefully chosen • Nonfiction bet but don’t rule out fiction

  15. Vary your teaching methods • SLIGHT differences between what you do and what students expect can increase arousal • Varying methods-graphic organizer one day, feature analysis another

  16. Look for links with the lives of your students • How does new material relate to student? • If no other connection, • relate to coming events (quiz). • Ask students why they think an objective is important

  17. Provide choices where possible • Make sure all the choices lead to your objective • Advantages • Allows student to chose what has highest valence for them • Power transfers tot eh student • Urges active engagement of student

  18. Look for interdisciplinary connections • Thematic planning-team • Can still be done alone

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