LLED 360307 Fall 2017 Dr. Lorna Ramsay
Reading Analysis Reflection Template for Presenter Date: October 12, 2017
Facilitator name: Kevin Chu
Group members: Jason Edge, Raj Dhillon, David Yuill, Keegan Sluis, Danielle Dar Juan, Michael Perpeira, Simon Widmann
Text Chapters: Chapter 6 – An Inclusive Learning Environment
Main Themes: inclusion
Educational Implications:
- Introducing newcomers/L2L’s in a positive way
- Avoid addressing the new student as someone who doesn’t speak the school’s language
- Respect the students’ names, learn how to pronounce it, make sure it’s correct
- When in doubt of how to introduce the student: ask student!
- Using peer support: enlist support of other students in the class
- Seating new L2L’s beside someone who speaks same language
- Provide a template on how to introduce class to new students
- Use intercultural projects
- Literature circles
- Having students read books about cultural perspectives
- Choose the books and theme
- Model the process
- Organize and guide the literature circles
- Share the books
- Discuss similarities/differences
- Assign independent reading
- Choose another theme, new books, and start again
- Social studies
- Cultural conflict, democracy, human rights, diversity
- Mathematics
- History of mathematics, geometry and cultural artifacts, population figures
- Science
- Achievements of famous people
- Art/music/drama
- Art history, techniques and methods used by famous artists
- PE
- Variety, individual/co-ed, cultural values (clothing), games/sports from different countries
- Having students read books about cultural perspectives
Critical considerations of the reading analysis presentation:
- Getting a colleague to assist
- Can take time, changes happen gradually over time
- Trying new things getting comfortable with that method, and then trying another
- Provide feedback and encouragement in the classroom
- Organize classroom as to not marginalize certain students