Effective+Practice

Type in the content of your page here. =Effective Literacy Practice=
 * A focus on Purpose....**
 * ~ media type="custom" key="4009849" ||~ =====In order to engage learners in a reading or writing activity, teachers need to be clear about:=====
 * =====what they want the students to learn (the teachers instructional objective, which is based on the identified needs of the learners);=====
 * =====how they will share this intended learning with the students (the shared goal);=====
 * =====what the task will be and which instructional strategies will be most effective;=====
 * =====how they and the students will know that the learning has taken place (for example, through shared success criteria and through monitoring and reflection)=====

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When teachers are explicit in sharing with students the reasons for a reading or writing task, they give a point to the task and build the expectation that reading and writing will always be for a purpose. By reviewing the purpose and reflecting on the learning at the end of the activity, they reinforce this expectation.=====

//taken from// Ministry of Education (2003) //Effective Literacy Practice in years 1 to 4//, Page 119. Wellington, New Zealand ||
 * ~ ===== __This focus on purpose is important in all learning areas and in e-learning.__ =====

Some things to think about

 * ===== Use activites with whole class or groups. =====
 * ===== Wiki can be used for home links =====
 * ===== Whole class and a learning object on the data projector to work through together (IWB?) =====
 * ===== Give students the mouse while working in a group - (consider wireless Bluetooth) =====
 * ===== Students demonstrating using a learning object or activity =====
 * ===== 2-3 students working together on activities at computer =====
 * ===== Students showing each other or demonstrating their learning to other students =====
 * ===== Do they lead to any hands on follow up activites? =====
 * ===== Targeting Maori and Pacifika or other learing needs - eg extension =====
 * ===== Don't be restricted by level eg a upper primary learning object could be used with Juniors with support =====
 * ===== Don't be restricted by learning area eg an english learning object might have maths content =====

out of class work (eek! homework!) on a wiki for students
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 * ~ media type="custom" key="4009989" ||~ Further thoughts.....

When you have a learning need to meet look to ICT to see what it can offer - can ICT be used to help meet this need (eLearning)? What does your data tell you? - Can ICT be used to help move students on?

Are students setting personals goals? - can you help them find a website/tool/activity to support the goal?

Don't pass up the motivational opportunity that introducing a new (ICT) tool brings. 

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 * ~ **Help set goals for quality work - give students exemplars and ask the students to identify the quality aspects.

Offer pointers and insist they they produce quality work that shows the literacy learning instead of just a visually appealing outcome. (could you negotiate criteria? - agreed outcomes? or maybe a rubric?)

What barriers can you remove through e-Learning? ** ||



