Bringing Literacy to Life

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 36-39
Author(s):  
David Yates
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Early Literacy ◽  
Home Visits ◽  
Literacy Teacher ◽  
Key Aspects

Since introducing REAL in 2015, Tinsley Meadows Primary school in Sheffield has strengthened its events and home visits to support key aspects of early literacy. Teacher David Yates explains exactly how these work and explains why it is so important to maintain the momentum.

Teaching multilingual literacy in Ugandan classrooms: The promise of the African Storybook

2020 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonny Norton ◽  
Juliet Tembe
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Management ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Early Literacy ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Collaborative Study ◽  
Rural And Urban Areas ◽  
Link Type ◽  
Eastern Uganda

AbstractFor over a decade, the authors have worked collaboratively to better understand and address the challenges and possibilities of promoting multilingual literacy in Uganda, a country of over 44 million people where over 40 African languages are spoken and English is the official language. This article focuses on the diverse ways that teachers promote early literacy in large multilingual classrooms, and how the innovative African Storybook digital initiative might support primary school teachers in both rural and urban areas. We begin the article with a description of our collaborative work on the African Storybook (http://www.africanstorybook.org/) and one of its derivatives, Storybooks Uganda (https://global-asp.github.io/storybooks-uganda/). Then, drawing on a collaborative study of primary school classrooms in eastern Uganda, we analyze four common strategies that Ugandan teachers use to promote multilingual literacy in their classrooms: the use of the mother tongue as a resource; songs and multimodality; translanguaging; and linguistic strategies for classroom management. We follow this with a discussion of a 2015 teacher education workshop in eastern Uganda, which illustrates how the African Storybook can help support Ugandan teachers as they navigate the challenges of large classrooms. We conclude that the African Storybook has much promise for addressing the United Nations’ 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

scholarly journals Essential Characteristics of a Primary School Teacher as a Subject of Creative Pedagogical Activity

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-332
Author(s):  
Yulya Zhurat ◽  
Tatiana Doroshenko ◽  
Iryna Shaposhnikova ◽  
Tamara Paguta ◽  
Svetlana Bader ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Primary School Teacher ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Professional Self ◽  
Functional Autonomy ◽  
The One ◽  
Key Aspects

The article describes and analyzes three key aspects of the personality of a primary school teacher as a subject of creative pedagogical activity - Requirements for the personality of a modern primary school teacher, subjectivity of a primary school teacher in scientific discourse and activity components as a basis of professional subjectivity of a primary school teacher. The purpose of the article is to summarize the experience of Western and Eastern European scholars on the modern view of the components and activities of the subjectivity of the teacher of this profession in order to increase its didactic and educational effectiveness. It’s proved that the subjectivity of the primary school teacher is defined as a complex functional autonomy of the system, which is formed, developed, built and transformed by him in the process of life, acquisition of pedagogical education and experience of pedagogical activity. Such subject-oriented manifestations of the teacher's personality as activity (ability to conscious self-determination of creative pedagogical activity) are described; productivity (its complex ability, on the one hand, to transform the educational reality in the classroom into a humane educational environment and the student in the subject of creative learning, and on the other - to constant subjective, professional and professional self-development and self-improvement in teaching, improving the results of their activities and themselves as a subject of pedagogical activity.

scholarly journals Encouraging Learner Autonomy Development in Distance Teaching in Primary School

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 277-294
Author(s):  
Katja Komljanec ◽  
Lara Šebalj
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Learner Autonomy ◽  
Distance Teaching ◽  
School Students ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Key Aspects

The central topic of the article is the development of learner autonomy and how teachers in Slovenian primary schools encourage it. The first part of the article presents and explains what learner autonomy is, the factors important for its development, and other significant concepts connected to it. The key aspects of learner autonomy are intrinsic motivation, learning strategies, collaborative learning, and self-evaluation. The theory of learner autonomy is then related to the context of distance learning that we were able to observe this year, during the COVID-19 pandemic. The article also discusses the use of technology in teaching EFL/ESL and suggests it helps in the development of learner autonomy. The second part presents an analysis and discussion based on the results of interviews conducted with primary school English teachers and questionnaires that were given to primary school students. The purpose of the research was to explore how learner autonomy was manifested during the time of the pandemic, when the learning process had to be moved online. By analysing the results, we were able to confirm or reject five hypotheses. The results show that teachers use many activities that promote the development of learner autonomy. The research shows that in distance teaching the main factors that influence the development of learner autonomy are quality, attractive, and engaging materials, as well as good explanations. Teachers also reported that the home environment was one of the key aspects contributing to a successful or unsuccessful learning process.

scholarly journals The Scope of Cooperative Work in the Classroom from the Viewpoint of Primary School Teachers

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (26) ◽  
pp. 171-194
Author(s):  
Mª P. Fernández-Lozano ◽  
M. González-Ballesteros ◽  
A. De-Juanas
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Cooperative Learning ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Primary School Teacher ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Key Aspects

Introduction. Different international organisms, including UNESCO, insist on the importance of collaborative teamwork to face today’s challenges. This skill should be fostered from the early stages of education, and consequently, it is particularly important that Primary School teacher training institutions draw up proposals and implement new practices which include this type of work. This paper attempts to describe how a group of Primary School teachers perceive cooperative learning based on their interview responses.Method. The methodology is based on a qualitative and descriptive approach using semi-structured interviews. The interview content was analysed using the content analysis procedure. The sample included 48 Primary School teachers in the Madrid area who had been interviewed previously.Results. The teachers’ opinions refer to three key aspects: evaluation of the cooperative learning competence; action taken by teachers related to this competence; training received in this competence. The research findings suggest that teamwork is seldom used, and when it is used, this is basically for motivational reasons. The low importance given to this competence in initial teacher training is also mentioned.Conclusion. The results suggest that the potential of collaborative work to facilitate learning and manage diversity is not generally understood.

scholarly journals Global Education as a Way of Reinforcing the Process by Which a Solidaritous and Just World is Built

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-94
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Kaniewska ◽  
Marcin Klimski
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Global Education ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
School Teaching ◽  
Level Of Knowledge ◽  
Key Aspects

Abstract Global education is a part of civic education and upbringing that contributes to their scope through the better understanding of various phenomena and global interdependencies that it affords. It thus represents a response to globalisation processes that has as its goal the development of critical thinking skills in schoolchildren from an early age, with a view to stereotypes and prejudices being combated, human life and human dignity being shown values, and emphasis placed on equality, peace, tolerance, solidarity and equity. The paper considers the reasons for including axiological reflection in school education programmes encompassing matters that are global in nature. Also presented are methods by which to achieve postulates of global education at the primary-school teaching level, as well as the results of research into the level of knowledge on key aspects of this education that are present among primary-school teachers.

scholarly journals Knowledge levels of primary school teachers regarding the concept of early literacy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Halil Taş ◽  
Muhammet Baki Minaz
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Primary School ◽  
Early Literacy ◽  
Simple Random Sampling ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Primary School Teachers ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Research ◽  
Knowledge Levels

<p>The aim of this study is to determine the level of knowledge of primary school teachers about the concept of early literacy, to determine whether this knowledge level differs according to the teachers' gender, the type of school they graduated from and their professional seniority; to reveal the importance of early literacy skills for 1st-grade students of primary school and how to increase teachers' early literacy knowledge levels. This research is a descriptive study in the nature of a survey model. In this research, where quantitative and qualitative research techniques are used together, simultaneous transformational mixed method was used in data collection and analysis. The study group of the research consists of 49 primary school teachers who teach the 1st-grade. Teachers were determined through simple random sampling. The analysis of the qualitative data was conducted via content analysis while the quantitative data were analyzed via independent group t-test and ANOVA in this study for which data collection was provided via a semi-structured interview form developed by the researchers.<b></b></p>

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