literacy

Spicegirl1974

module5Literacy.docx

DIRECTIONS: Your final project is to take the feedback received from your classmates and your instructor in the and finalize your presentation. Your presentation is no longer a proposal but an actual Professional Development (PD) that you could or would conduct with current or future co-workers. Your final project is expected to include:

· Title page of your Professional Development

· Slide 1: Begin by asking your participants a question and engaging in some activity that you then discuss (for the purposes of your recording you will say something like, "I will allow X number of minutes for the discussion and then bring the group back together to discuss responses. I would expect to hear that my colleagues discussed _______". )

· Slides: 2-5 - Use responses from slide 1 to serve as a transition into the theories that you define and then explain how they influence your teaching/thinking and how they have shaped your presentation. This section is about you and what you've learned, what impacted you, and why it is important in education.

· Slides 6-10 (minimum of 4 slides, max 6) Next, your presentation will address the topic you’ve selected. This section utilizes the feedback you received from classmates and instructor in the M4 Discussion 2 area. It will include the 'teaching' piece of your PD. What are you teaching your fellow co-workers? Why is this important for them to know? How does this information impact learners and curriculum and encourage literacy practices in the classroom? In these slides you will have information based in theory and research, activities to help your co-workers apply what they are learning from you, and possibly brief (5-7 min. max) videos (you don't need to play these in your recording - just say that you would in real life) that will further enhance the points you are making (videos support what you are teaching - they don't do the teaching for you - think of it as you saying, "Here's what I believe, and look, these Ted Talk people and/or these research studies/authors agree". They are your evidentiary support for your beliefs)

· You are REMOVING your "proposal" slides from your M4 assignment - they have become part of slides 6-10 with the activities and teaching you are doing with your participants.

· Slides 11-12 - These are your conclusion slides where you bring everything together - summarize your main points and send your participants off to change the world.

· Slide 13+ - These slides are your references- and you must have references. You are expected to cite your authors and presenters throughout your slides just as you would in a paper. Direct quotes must have quotation marks and a citation just as they would in a paper.

Points for successful presentations:

What should be on the slides is a few bulleted points for each slide. These serve to remind you what you're speaking about and to draw your audience's attention to the key words. You don't want people reading your slides while you're speaking. You want them listening to you. Your slides should be colorful (use different backgrounds), be engaging, and when possible, interactive. You learned about a lot of technology in this course that you can embed in your slides. Rather than you speaking your teaching philosophy, use a Voki and embed the link on your slide. Try some other things out as well! Your slides should also have pictures and links to brief videos.

So the slides themselves:

· 4-5 bullet points

· no more than 4-5 words per bulleted line

· colorful (different backgrounds, colored font, pictures - but not so busy participants get distracted)

· links (ex. brief videos - 5 to 8 minutes that support your philosophy/theories/purpose)

· Studies are also helpful - if you can cite a study that supports your beliefs this is powerful

Finally, you need an activity for your participants aside from the opening activity. They shouldn't just be sitting there listening to you lecture. Have at least two points in your presentation where your participants will work together - either to brainstorm or to create and then share. You need to get them to buy in and invest in what you're presenting

Feed Back

Use this feedback to complete what you have already started add some pictures.

I think you're off to a good start; however, if your proposal is about being a child of color in today's schools, then Critical Literacy Theory is a vital one to have in your presentation and within your instructional toolbox. I think Larson & Marsh chapters 3 and 7 will be important as will artifactual literacies chapter 5. We must honor the literacies children come to school with and make them part of our schooling. We must also have literature in which children see themselves and their communities. The learning needs to relate to their lives and their lived experiences. Keep these thoughts in mind as you construct the final presentation.

Remember, with the final slide show, ask participants what they know about your topic before you begin. This should be your starting point: have participants turn and talk and share so you find out what they know prior to proceeding. That way you can refer to your knowledge as you're doing your presentation. Do this several times throughout the presentation to keep them more actively engaged as well as making sure you're teaching from what they know and including their knowledge into your presentation. Also, keep this in mind from the instructions in the M5 Final Project upload: