Wednesday. October 4
English is a VERY hard language! I repeat, English is a very hard language! I am beginning to take a step further back and remember what it was like to learn to read and write. What is the most troubling thing about English is that so many words are spelled the same but sound different and mean different things in different contexts. This is where helping a child to expand their vocabulary and read things in context comes in, because even if you can read the word and pronounce it well phonetically, where does it leave you if you don't even understand what it means in context? I am very excited about getting into the schools now! This is going to be as much a challenge for the student as it will be for me. We went more indepth into understanding the cvc rule. Dr. Arno also focused on the importance of teaching ch, sh and th as important phonemes. I'm really happy that we have all these tools and oppurtunities being offered to us. The more we get into orientation, the more I realize how important it is and how isolating and perhaps more difficult things would have been without it.
We were assigned our schools today and I got school 200. Most of us will be there and I'm very happy to be where there is a large population of Africans. This is exactly the group of students that I would love to engage and work with so I am very enthusiastic about starting.
At the end of class today we filled out forms in preparation for Lisa Blackwell's visit tomorrow about or thoughts on intelligence and ability. I'm looking forward to her talk and am quite curious about what she has to say.
Tuesday. October 3
CVC. Well I'd never heard about it at all - consant-vowel-consonant - and when you put an -e- on the end it is silent and the vowel becomes long. Many of these little rules are completely new to me. I think my learning experience with reading was more of the whole language approach. I think I did get some phonics in there but itw as not as in depth or focused. I think what I learned has worked for me but I defintely see how if I had learned some rules as foundational early on it would have be much more helpful.
Monday. October 2.
We didn't meet today but I worked on and completed the online course on ethical practices for researchers. It was another rude awakening and reminder of how ruthless people can be with other human beings. These laws are in place to protect people against being taken advantage of in the name of research. Against the backdrop of tortuous medical testing in Nazi Germany and the US governments Tuskegee Syphillis experiment with black men, many important laws have been enacted. It took me a while to get through it but it was good to be familiarized with the laws. Anything that raises our awareness and sensitizes us to pertinent issues is a plus and a good thing.
English is a VERY hard language! I repeat, English is a very hard language! I am beginning to take a step further back and remember what it was like to learn to read and write. What is the most troubling thing about English is that so many words are spelled the same but sound different and mean different things in different contexts. This is where helping a child to expand their vocabulary and read things in context comes in, because even if you can read the word and pronounce it well phonetically, where does it leave you if you don't even understand what it means in context? I am very excited about getting into the schools now! This is going to be as much a challenge for the student as it will be for me. We went more indepth into understanding the cvc rule. Dr. Arno also focused on the importance of teaching ch, sh and th as important phonemes. I'm really happy that we have all these tools and oppurtunities being offered to us. The more we get into orientation, the more I realize how important it is and how isolating and perhaps more difficult things would have been without it.
We were assigned our schools today and I got school 200. Most of us will be there and I'm very happy to be where there is a large population of Africans. This is exactly the group of students that I would love to engage and work with so I am very enthusiastic about starting.
At the end of class today we filled out forms in preparation for Lisa Blackwell's visit tomorrow about or thoughts on intelligence and ability. I'm looking forward to her talk and am quite curious about what she has to say.
Tuesday. October 3
CVC. Well I'd never heard about it at all - consant-vowel-consonant - and when you put an -e- on the end it is silent and the vowel becomes long. Many of these little rules are completely new to me. I think my learning experience with reading was more of the whole language approach. I think I did get some phonics in there but itw as not as in depth or focused. I think what I learned has worked for me but I defintely see how if I had learned some rules as foundational early on it would have be much more helpful.
Monday. October 2.
We didn't meet today but I worked on and completed the online course on ethical practices for researchers. It was another rude awakening and reminder of how ruthless people can be with other human beings. These laws are in place to protect people against being taken advantage of in the name of research. Against the backdrop of tortuous medical testing in Nazi Germany and the US governments Tuskegee Syphillis experiment with black men, many important laws have been enacted. It took me a while to get through it but it was good to be familiarized with the laws. Anything that raises our awareness and sensitizes us to pertinent issues is a plus and a good thing.
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