Talk:Diane Hamilton's Portfolio Page
Welcome to my public discussion page.
Please feel free to make comments, but please understand that with all the other monitoring of KF views, it may be difficult to find time to respond to all comments. Please do not be offended. Thanks in advance for your understanding. ~Diane
Comment Space for Week 7
To Jianwei,
I have not yet decided about whether or not to include the cognitive apprenticeship model as indicated in my preliminary thoughts as I am trying to keep the course narrow enough, but I wasn't sure if we were to utilize a new learning approach covered in this class or if we are simply to provide a course that helps others to learn a new approach for them. Is it sufficient to teach about phonemic awareness and how to support its development in kindergarten -children, or should I include teaching on cognitive apprenticeship and then combining it with the phonemic awareness to show how cognitvie apprenticeship can be used for phonemic awareness instruction? ~Diane
To Jianwei,
Given the time constraints of this course, how much of a needs analysis should we expect to be able to complete? (See part 2 in my needs analysis, please.) Thanks. ~Diane
Diane, given our limited time, you may survey or interview 3-4 teachers and check the curriculum documents of NYS for your needs assessment. Real data collection for needs assessment is optional for our course anyway, as many of us don't have easy connection with teachers. --Jianwei, 3/9
* Regarding your list of learning objectives
I like the overall learning objectives you've identified, addressing teachers' needs related to what, how, and why. My only question is about your second objective. Under it, the following five items are about phonemic awareness per se, intead of how to teach/train phonemic awareness.
1. Discriminates phonemes by sorting pictures according to initial sound. 2. Identifies distinct phonemes by counting the number of phonemes in spoken words. 3. Identifies onsets and rimes by sorting spoken word parts. 4. Demonstrates phonemic segmentation by segmenting spoken words. 5. Demonstrates phonemic blending by blending sounds into words.
I assume that the teachers should already be able to do the above, so you don't need to teach them about these. What you want to do through this course is to help them learn instructional strategies for developing students' phonemic awareness. Right? --Jianwei 3/9
