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WEEK 8 prompt 

Here is my short podcast in response to this week!

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Week 7 prompt

Two ways that teachers can improve their personal knowledge and skills in language, literacy or literature...

1. My first idea is incredibly simply - teachers wanting to improve their personal knowledge and skills in all three of these areas should READ. Read, read and then read some more. There would be particular benefit in immersing themselves in texts that are of the level of their students. This way the teacher will have a greater understanding of the texts that there students are reading, while also finding great texts that they can share with the class. 

2. Another way that teachers could improve is through the ‘Literacy Teachers Toolkit’. This website covers a range of literacy fields, such as reading and viewing, writing and multimodal literacy. It has information on teaching models, different approaches, and also examples of lessons. 

https://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/discipline/english/literacy/Pages/default.aspx 

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Week 9 prompt

I have chosen this YouTube video as my multimodal text this week. This resource was something I came across in another unit this semester and that I used for a lesson into intercultural capability. This stop-motion film was created by a group of students with a refugee background who wanted to share and voice their experiences of coming to Australia. It has both visual elements and spoken words. 

I would use this text as a part of an inquiry into immigration and refugees, but would also use it to highlight the unique ways we can share stories - e.g. stop-motion films. I would also highlight the audio, including elements such as the tone of the narrators voice and how it conveys both innocence and vulnerability.  

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Week 3 prompt

A resource that could be used to find quality children’s literature is the ‘Premiers’ Reading Challenge’ website and booklist. The resource exposes students to a range of quality literature and helps to encourage a love of reading for leisure, not just for school forced purposes. It is also a great resource for teachers to access when wanting to choose an age appropriate book for individual students or their class. As it is also posed as a ‘challenge’, an incentive to read is provided.   

https://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/events/prc/Pages/default.aspx 

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Week 2 prompt

In my last placement, the class had a large VCOP poster on the wall. The ‘Big Write & VCOP’ initiative can be used by teachers to assist in student writing as it focuses on vocabulary, connectives, openers and punctuation. VCOP is a great tool for students to develop their writing abilities, and I have seen first hand its effective use in the classroom. 

The poster (this is not the original one from the classroom but is extremely similar) can be placed in the classroom as a visual reference to prompt thinking, and also to help students improve and refine their work. I really like this initiative, as I believe it helps students add more excitement to their pieces and helps their writing to flow more effectively.

https://knoxparkps.vic.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Writing-2.png  ^ link to online resource where I found the above image.

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Week 1 prompt

A book I vividly remembering reading at school was ‘Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes’. It was in grade 4, and we read the book as a class over the course of a few weeks. During this time, we also created paper cranes when we could in the hope of reaching 1000 cranes like in the book. We eventually displayed our finished product in our classroom as a representation of peace and tranquillity.

I believe reading books like this one are great tools for the classroom as they allow students to develop a sense of empathy for others and begin imagining life from another person’s perspective. As the story is based off of a true story, there is the added element of authenticity that really makes you feel connected to the story and Sadako.