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Writing with Caribbean Teachers: the Reading-Writing Link (m14129)
Keywords: Caribbean, journalling, personal expressive mode, reading habit, Standard English, teachers, Trinidadian Creole English, writers, writing
Summary: This module seeks to encourage teachers to see themselves as writers. This is one way of improving their own writing skills and readying themselves to teach writing. It also seeks to link the reading habit to the act of writing. The ideas came from the expressed needs of student teachers in Trinidad and Tobago.
Subject: Arts
Language: English
Popularity: 84.49%
Revised: 2008-05-19
Revisions: 43
"Pan" and Literacy for Trinidad and Tobago Teachers (col10460)
Institution: University of Trinidad and Tobago
Keywords: Calypso, Caribbean, Literacy, Music, pan, steelpan, students, teachers, Trinidad and Tobago
Summary: These modules about "PAN"--short for "steelpan" are directly related to the attempt to find ways in the culture and speech of young people in Trinidad and Tobago to improve their school Literacy. The collection is for the teachers-to-be of these young persons especially those who are at ... whole-class activities.
Subject: Humanities, Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 71.07%
Revised: 2009-09-28
Revisions: 12
Campus-Level Decision-Making Practices: Principals and Teachers Differ in Their Views (m19345)
Keywords: campus, decision making, principals, public schools, teachers
Summary: With the implementation of site-based decision-making occurring in schools, the extent to which teachers perceive they are involved in decisions on planning, budgeting, curriculum, staffing patterns, staff development, and campus-level organization and the extent to which teachers’ views of their involvement in these activities are congruent with ... are discussed.
Subject: Humanities
Language: English
Popularity: 43.79%
Revised: 2009-01-08
Revisions: New
Mentors’ Views of Factors Essential for the Success of Beginning Teachers (m18056)
Keywords: administrative support, teacer mentors
Summary: The views of 46 mentors of first-year teachers were obtained regarding practices that they viewed as essential for their success in mentoring teachers. Specifically, they were queried about teacher involvement/support, staff development, administrative support, and resource materials. Almost all of the mentor teachers believed a teacher-mentoring program that ... test scores.
Language: English
Popularity: 49.43%
Revised: 2008-10-23
Revisions: 3
Retaining African American Teachers Through Mentoring, Reflection, and Reciprocal Journaling (m14267)
Keywords: African, Journaling, Mentoring, Reciprocal
Summary: A severe shortage of African American teachers in K-12 public education has been accelerated by their increased teacher departures from the profession. In attempts to reverse this trend, the authors of this study present insight from their investigation that encourages administrators to implement mentoring, reflection, and reciprocal journaling to ... teacher-student relationships.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 81.38%
Revised: 2007-01-19
Revisions: 2
An Alternative Language Experience Guide for Teachers (m14081)
Keywords: Alternative guide, Caribbean, Communication Experience Guide, Community, creole-influenced students, Language Experience, Literacy, native strategies for talk, Scheme, Students, Teachers, Trinidad and Tobago, Types of talk
Summary: This is an initial guide for Trinidad and Tobago teachers on using the communication experiences of creole-influenced students to improve their Literacy. The ideas suggested here can serve as an alternative to the Language Experience Approach to the teaching of Reading for such students. Teachers can experiment with and ... assist Comprehension.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 85.31%
Revised: 2009-09-18
Revisions: 24
Chatterbox and Early Literacy in Trinidad and Tobago (m14714)
Keywords: chatterbox, chatting, code-switching, Creole English, Early Literacy, emergent literacy, Home Language, Language skills, oral skills, parents, print rich environment, reading, reading to, speaking, teachers, Trinidadian English, young children
Summary: *The main purpose of this module is to explore for ways in which teachers can develop Early Literacy in young children by making use of their chat skills; also how they can advice parents about developing literacy practices at home and fostering oracy in their children as a basis for ... Tobago) context.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 80.94%
Revised: 2008-02-15
Revisions: 22
A brave new digi-world and Caribbean Literacy : a search for solutions (col10600)
Keywords: ideas, knowledge, new technology, students, teachers, web
Summary: Few areas in our world today remain untouched by the influence of the new technology and its impact on education. Teachers must now devise new strategies for teaching and the exchange of information in classrooms with a view to improving Literacy and the comprehension of English among speakers of English ... new technology.
Subject: Humanities, Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 65.91%
Revised: 2008-12-04
Revisions: 7
Communication, Language and Literacy in Trinidad and Tobago (col10388)
Institution: University of Trinidad and Tobago
Keywords: Codeswitching, Communication, Community, Experience, International English, Language, Literacy, Meaning making, Students, Teacher-researcher, Teachers, Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidadian Creole English, Ways of Speaking
Summary: This course introduces teachers in Trinidad and Tobago to some possible links between Language, Communication and Literacy in our local contexts. All students and interested persons are welcome to sample the ideas here. Any of the modules/sections can be a convenient starting point.
Subject: Social Sciences
Language: English
Popularity: 81.42%
Revised: 2009-09-18
Revisions: 18
Teaching Science to Children. Can we see in the dark? (m14444)
Keywords: Dark, Darkness, Education, learning, Light, light source, Science, see, seeing, Sight, teacher, teachers, teaching
Summary: This module is aimed at teachers who are teaching science to young children. The intended age range is 5 - 7 year olds. Many children live is modern cities and have never experienced total darkness. They often believe that they are able to see in the dark and do not understand ... to see.
Subject: Social Sciences, Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 90.34%
Revised: 2007-04-14
Revisions: New
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