Week 4 Post 1
Mind Shift is a subsidiary of NPR. It is a non profit provider of free education news and information which supports parents and teachers around the world. The first article I'm working off of is from their editorial board and was published on October 3, 2016. Here is the link to the article.
Edutopia is a website published by the George Lucas Educational Foundation. It celebrates and encourages innovation in K-12 schools and focuses on how different learning strategies have different outcomes. The second article I'm working off of was written by Oli de Botton, an English teacher who has worked in educational policy as a 'government education adviser' for the UK and he has held other positions in politics. He is currently serving as the Headteacher of a school he founded in 2012 called School 21. His article was published on September 15, 2016. Here is the link to the article.
Math and Literacy (M&L) are currently the most focused on topics in school.
M&L are both foundational and testable
M&L are skills necessary for later in life
In order to share skills found in M&L classes students need to have good verbal communication skills
Verbal Communication Skills (VCS) are not taught in class room enviornments
Students are left to learn VCS with little precision or structure
VCS are rarely part of the primary curriculum
VCS can be referred to as "Oracy" which is short for Oratorical Literacy.
Oracy Should be taught alongside M&L
First, it can help with M&L skills
Developmentally, humans acquire oral language as a prerequisite for literacy.
"Talk for writing" which is when Oracy is used to teach writing has been shown to improve outcomes for most students
When students are invited to 'talk through' math problems, they are more likely to solve them because they're tackling a foreign subject from a familiar part of the brain
Second, Oracy develops student voice
It is the job of a school to help students develop voice, confidence, and poise
Every student has something to say
In traditional learning environments, students normally only speak to teachers or in presentations
That creates a power dichotomy which can damage a student's relationship with Oracy
A better relationship with oracy can lead to less communication anxiety in the future.
Third, it develops soft skills
Students in oracy focused environments regularly practice forming and developing debate skills during subjects like M&L
This makes it so that by the time they have to use those skills elsewhere they're already comfortable with them.
Students view the ability to speak in front of audiences as an opportunity to display skills rather than a daunting task.
Oracy will be used more in life than calculus
We must stop treating it as something everyone is capable of
It should be taught alongside math & literacy to young students in formal classroom settings
Edutopia is a website published by the George Lucas Educational Foundation. It celebrates and encourages innovation in K-12 schools and focuses on how different learning strategies have different outcomes. The second article I'm working off of was written by Oli de Botton, an English teacher who has worked in educational policy as a 'government education adviser' for the UK and he has held other positions in politics. He is currently serving as the Headteacher of a school he founded in 2012 called School 21. His article was published on September 15, 2016. Here is the link to the article.
Math and Literacy (M&L) are currently the most focused on topics in school.
M&L are both foundational and testable
M&L are skills necessary for later in life
In order to share skills found in M&L classes students need to have good verbal communication skills
Verbal Communication Skills (VCS) are not taught in class room enviornments
Students are left to learn VCS with little precision or structure
VCS are rarely part of the primary curriculum
VCS can be referred to as "Oracy" which is short for Oratorical Literacy.
Oracy Should be taught alongside M&L
First, it can help with M&L skills
Developmentally, humans acquire oral language as a prerequisite for literacy.
"Talk for writing" which is when Oracy is used to teach writing has been shown to improve outcomes for most students
When students are invited to 'talk through' math problems, they are more likely to solve them because they're tackling a foreign subject from a familiar part of the brain
Second, Oracy develops student voice
It is the job of a school to help students develop voice, confidence, and poise
Every student has something to say
In traditional learning environments, students normally only speak to teachers or in presentations
That creates a power dichotomy which can damage a student's relationship with Oracy
A better relationship with oracy can lead to less communication anxiety in the future.
Third, it develops soft skills
Students in oracy focused environments regularly practice forming and developing debate skills during subjects like M&L
This makes it so that by the time they have to use those skills elsewhere they're already comfortable with them.
Students view the ability to speak in front of audiences as an opportunity to display skills rather than a daunting task.
Oracy will be used more in life than calculus
We must stop treating it as something everyone is capable of
It should be taught alongside math & literacy to young students in formal classroom settings
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