I enjoyed reading your paper. As a pre k teacher it is easy to think that the students coming in have no background knowledge in reading, writing, and spelling. After three years of teaching pre k I have learned that my students are a lot smarter than I give them credit for. I need to start each school year with the assumption that they are smarter than I think. I need to give them the opportunity to go beyond what I think they should know. I love how Jerome Harste puts this all into perspective. Teaching with inquiry in mind is allowing students to use their critical thinking skills and gain knowledge well beyond what we perceive as possible.
I really enjoyed reading your article on Jerome C. Harste. I did not know much about this theorist before reading your paper. I learned a lot! I think that as a teacher it is important to remember that students always know more than we expect them to. Students start learning at birth and come to school knowing plenty of information. I did my research paper on Yetta Goodman. She believes, like Jerome, that learning should be a social experience. There has been a big push for inquiry bases studied in the classroom. We as educators are continuing to fail to recognize student potential. What can we do to change this?? I also loved reading about the basal readers and how they are focused more towards skill level. I think that in my classroom I will remember that students do know more than we expect them to and that their experiences outside of school affect the ways in which they learn.
I was thoroughly impressed by your prominent research paper. Jerome Harste is a great author. I have enjoyed reading his books to my kids. His strategy of studying students ages 3-8 was very interesting to me. Being that those kids were at the early emergent reading stage caused Harste to have many findings in research. I agree with Harste about children being knowledgeable when they enter school. Those kids are exposed to so many things before they start school. So they are expected to learn from their experiences. Good point about if we expect little out of students, then we will get little in return. This is so true. We should have confidence in our students so that they may have confidence in themselves. We would have a better outcome with some students if we show them that we care.
I enjoyed reading your paper. As a pre k teacher it is easy to think that the students coming in have no background knowledge in reading, writing, and spelling. After three years of teaching pre k I have learned that my students are a lot smarter than I give them credit for. I need to start each school year with the assumption that they are smarter than I think. I need to give them the opportunity to go beyond what I think they should know. I love how Jerome Harste puts this all into perspective. Teaching with inquiry in mind is allowing students to use their critical thinking skills and gain knowledge well beyond what we perceive as possible.
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ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed reading your article on Jerome C. Harste. I did not know much about this theorist before reading your paper. I learned a lot! I think that as a teacher it is important to remember that students always know more than we expect them to. Students start learning at birth and come to school knowing plenty of information. I did my research paper on Yetta Goodman. She believes, like Jerome, that learning should be a social experience. There has been a big push for inquiry bases studied in the classroom. We as educators are continuing to fail to recognize student potential. What can we do to change this?? I also loved reading about the basal readers and how they are focused more towards skill level. I think that in my classroom I will remember that students do know more than we expect them to and that their experiences outside of school affect the ways in which they learn.
I was thoroughly impressed by your prominent research paper. Jerome Harste is a great author. I have enjoyed reading his books to my kids. His strategy of studying students ages 3-8 was very interesting to me. Being that those kids were at the early emergent reading stage caused Harste to have many findings in research. I agree with Harste about children being knowledgeable when they enter school. Those kids are exposed to so many things before they start school. So they are expected to learn from their experiences. Good point about if we expect little out of students, then we will get little in return. This is so true. We should have confidence in our students so that they may have confidence in themselves. We would have a better outcome with some students if we show them that we care.
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