Steps to a Quality Vision

Follow these steps to developing a quality lesson plan. These steps are geared toward literacy competency. No matter your content area, you ARE a literacy teacher.

There is a palpable connection between literacy and a career path. I will talk to my students like they are all going to college and therefore all will have to write a college essay. Vocabulary development is key for every subject. In math, literacy helps with word problems, with reading and understanding directions, and for any question that asks students to ‘explain more.’ Literacy is vital for the social sciences for the copious amount of reading it entails, for the required essays and synthesizing skills that are key to understanding the importance of events. Literacy is crucial for science because it is full of new vocabulary terms. Students need to develop the necessary skills to learn and master scientific terminology and can do so through learning and mastering English vocabulary words.

Literacy incompetency will be problematic for a student in every content area. No discipline stands alone. And every teacher is a teacher of literacy.

Picture Source: Yasmin, TFA, literacy specialist

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The Optimal Learning Model

I Do. We Do. You Do. These diagrams expand upon building independent students. All lessons should be aligned--what you talk about and what graphic organizers you use in the beginning should be exactly what the scholars work on in small groups, what they practice independently, and what they are assessed on at the end. What should your goal ultimately look like? Diagram Source: Yasmin, TFA, literacy specialist

The Academic Impact Model

so...what does this even mean?? Let's start from the beginning. What else? What can we do about it? Informed and resilient teachers who know their strengths and weaknesses are most effective for tapping into the mindsets of those you perceive as different or the same as yourself. Source: TFA, Atlanta Institute Diversity Competencies session

How Can We Teach Our Students about Their Own Cultures and About New Cultures?

Teacher actions impact how and to what extent students are invested, which directly correlates to student achievement. Our personal history and sociocultural background can really impact what we teach our students. How Much Do You Know About: Martin Luther King, Jr Cesar Chavez Harvey Milk Japenese Internment Hispanic Heritage Month The Feminine Mystique

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