Education at Green Mountain College

“Our nation is facing a literacy crisis. The United States government estimates that roughly 25% of the adult population in this country is functionally illiterate. It has been acknowledged that if students do not learn to read by the time they enter 3rd grade there is only a 1 in 17 chance that they will ever catch up to their typically developing peers. The future of our nation depends heavily on its children. Here at Green Mountain College we offer training for pre-service teachers in the area of language and literacy that is cutting edge and heavily influenced not only by theory, but backed by research. Elementary education majors graduate from our program ready to teach children to read. This is an advantage that we are proud to say that we offer here at G.M.C. Green Mountain College is a pioneer in the field of teacher preparation." - Rommy Fuller

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Quizzaroni Number One & Announcements

Nice job folks!  Many of you did well on the first quiz.  Hard work pays off.  Now that we have passed mid-semester, it is time for us to delve into some phonemic awareness activities.  We will be visiting Leap Frog Nursery School and you will have the opportunity to play phonological games with the children.  You will each work with a partner to develop age appropriate tasks that you think the children will benefit from- using the guidelines that I will give you of course.  We will also be visiting Poultney Elementary-kindergarten- so that you can try out your phonemic awareness lesson plan in a couple of weeks. Vavavooom!  We are off and running once more!

P.S.  REMEMBER THIS: Doogie woogies have NOTHING to do with letters!!!  You are working at the phonemic awareness level ONLY when you do a minimal pairs chain A.K.A. "Doogie Woogie" lesson!!!
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