The titel of the text is: Talking in class: spaken language and effective learning..
By hearing this titel I had several different kinds of ideas for the subject that it could be containing. First off all I was thinking about my rapports of secundairy school. There was always on "You talk to much in class, be focused." So I realy wanted to know what this text has to say about it.
For example: Shut up, stop talking,... that are words we are so much more than just words. Saying to somebody that he needs to keep his mouth closed is like killing somebody... The same as saying your language is bad, you wont help him with it to say it, because offcourse the student will not be active anymore in your class.
A part of your academic language (see previous blog) will you get from school, but there are also children who get it from home and that are the children whit the best marks, children of teachers, they develope it more.
In the text they speak about a Skateboard- language. This is the example they give for explaining to the boy that its really important his language. He said it himeself "You can learn it by joining in" And at that point I think the porpuse of the text is accomplished, they boys understands it and now can work on it.
You can do this by:
reading: passive knowledge
talking: do you want to do it fluently? than practice it!
and off course ownership: the active knowledge that is speaking.
This can be developing by making space for it in class, to shape and reshape ideas, discussions.
Wittgenstein say in the text: "The borders of my language are the borders of my world".This sentence gave it a new perspective for me.. And indeed it is so, if you don't know a word that you need for a crossword than you keep thinking until you have it..
To show you that it realy is like wittgenstein says: the eskimo's have 7 words for melting snow. That is because they see it all the time.. If we wouldn't have a "regering" in a couple of months we also would have more then one word for it.
So talking is very important, we can help our pupils develope there language. other ways we are limiting them to develope there world a whe would put the borders at there world.
vrijdag 17 juni 2011
What with our language?
The subject of this blog is about language.
Why do we use different language at school then at home? For our students is it very confusing, because they need to learn a "new" language, and we give them points on that language.
So they need to learn the languages from us, the teachers because they copy it .. That is why we must pay attention at our vocabulary en the sentences we make.
Actualy we teach in academic language, do they understand? adults take it for granted, but for young students it's more difficult.
So we need to teach it, we can do this by offcourse talking in class, by hearing, try it, reading it they will get to know it. Off course we need to be aware of the differences in the academic language.
In math can "compare" mean: make from this exercise the math rules but in biology it means something totaly different. So the teachers need to decide together with word will mean what.
Offcourse that can't be enough, here are some tips to use:
1 be explicit
2 use "sheltered" instruction techniques
3 use appropiate grade level text
= content area instructions.
That is a first stap to become a higher achievement for all your students.
I think that we as teachers aren't aware enough of this "different" language that we speak. But if we didn't do this education we wouldn't have had this academic language. We have learned this because we are training to come teachers... So I think it's really important to understand that your students sometimes have difficulties with understanding you.. That is not your fault but just a sign that they don't understand your academic language. To help them you need to make room in your timetable, use text at there level, it must be a challange for them and offcourse tell them clearly that some words have a different use in a context.
So it isn't always our fault but also the fault of the language.
Next time if we have practical I will be aware off my language because we need to improve the language of our pupils.
Why do we use different language at school then at home? For our students is it very confusing, because they need to learn a "new" language, and we give them points on that language.
So they need to learn the languages from us, the teachers because they copy it .. That is why we must pay attention at our vocabulary en the sentences we make.
Actualy we teach in academic language, do they understand? adults take it for granted, but for young students it's more difficult.
So we need to teach it, we can do this by offcourse talking in class, by hearing, try it, reading it they will get to know it. Off course we need to be aware of the differences in the academic language.
In math can "compare" mean: make from this exercise the math rules but in biology it means something totaly different. So the teachers need to decide together with word will mean what.
Offcourse that can't be enough, here are some tips to use:
1 be explicit
2 use "sheltered" instruction techniques
3 use appropiate grade level text
= content area instructions.
That is a first stap to become a higher achievement for all your students.
I think that we as teachers aren't aware enough of this "different" language that we speak. But if we didn't do this education we wouldn't have had this academic language. We have learned this because we are training to come teachers... So I think it's really important to understand that your students sometimes have difficulties with understanding you.. That is not your fault but just a sign that they don't understand your academic language. To help them you need to make room in your timetable, use text at there level, it must be a challange for them and offcourse tell them clearly that some words have a different use in a context.
So it isn't always our fault but also the fault of the language.
Next time if we have practical I will be aware off my language because we need to improve the language of our pupils.
maandag 9 mei 2011
David Pinto's way...
David Pinto
He said that we have 2 kinds of cultures:
- fine meshed
- coarse meshed
And you can say that it is + - the same as high and low culture context.
On this behave he had maked a 3 step method for looking at an other culture or just another person.
Step 1: look at yourself: what are my norms, values? What influence me?
Step 2: look at the other: what are his norms, values? What influence his behaviour?
Those 2 steps have double perspective. First look at yourself than at the other. and put away for opinion and look at te facts!
Step 3: take and give -> <- how are you going to deal with it. Take and give, but in a way that you hurt nobody or he stops talking in a way consistent with his common codes.
So always look at both sides of a story, don't judge before you here erverything. And find a way that you are both happy and can live whit it. It isn't normal if he needs to give up his norms and values and you nothing. It will work at the beginning but after sometime not anymore.
He said that we have 2 kinds of cultures:
- fine meshed
- coarse meshed
And you can say that it is + - the same as high and low culture context.
On this behave he had maked a 3 step method for looking at an other culture or just another person.
Step 1: look at yourself: what are my norms, values? What influence me?
Step 2: look at the other: what are his norms, values? What influence his behaviour?
Those 2 steps have double perspective. First look at yourself than at the other. and put away for opinion and look at te facts!
Step 3: take and give -> <- how are you going to deal with it. Take and give, but in a way that you hurt nobody or he stops talking in a way consistent with his common codes.
So always look at both sides of a story, don't judge before you here erverything. And find a way that you are both happy and can live whit it. It isn't normal if he needs to give up his norms and values and you nothing. It will work at the beginning but after sometime not anymore.
woensdag 30 maart 2011
Short exchange Denmark. Learing trough the senses!
Mojn Belgium,
My first journey began in Denmark, Haderslev!
Exciting and very intriguing! We left in Zaventem on Sunday, March 27, 2011. Hopefully we will arrive at Frankfurt. We were lucky because we came right on time. After a waiting time of 3 hours in the transfer we could take our plane. We were lucky that we saw just in time that our flight gate was changed. No problem because we found it! After an hour flight and a nice healthy wrap later we arrived in Billund!
The beginning of an adventure: the bus, because here they have no street lights and the bikers cycling the just down the road. Arrived at the hostel we went to sleep because it is going to be a exhausting day thereafter. I will briefly summarize what we have all seen or it will take too long.
The first thing that is really really weird, the keyboard ... I'll show you. qwertyuiopåasdfghjklæøzxcvbnm. Weird eh? But there's live with that ..
Another major difference is that you see almost no students at the Universitie college. In Belgium everywhere you see you see students, here it is not like that. Not all lessons are also start at 8.30 but always at a different time ..
The first day was to get to know each other! And we got a tour by Haderslev (café, bar,...) then we went out for the first evening / night. What really surprised me was that the bars close at 12pm. It wasn´t a probleæ because some of us had already enough.
We have had our first lesson of Danish.
Mojn: Hi, Hej, ...
rødgrød med fløde: red porridge with cream.
Jeg hedder Nele: My name is Nele
Jeg kommer fra Belgien: I am a Belgian
....
Tuesday we did the workshop Art. it was really great, we were dressed up and face painting and take pictures. The result was great! (I'll have shiow you a picture)
Then we got half hour break at 11.30 it was really weird because it was for lunch.
Then how we had to make a portfolio or in our case a BLOG. and tata tata tata ....
The last thing fr this day is preparing food typical of our country we had: "Verloren brood"... mmhh
on Wednesday we went to a typically-Danish school. The students say the first name of the teacher, walking in their socks, interrupt him / her ... totally different from belgium. But very nice to see I
was impressed. Then they went to Aarhus (Århus): an old town and a beautiful museum.
This is the first part of the week!
Tak and Mojn!
Nela (they can not really pronounce my name)
My first journey began in Denmark, Haderslev!
Exciting and very intriguing! We left in Zaventem on Sunday, March 27, 2011. Hopefully we will arrive at Frankfurt. We were lucky because we came right on time. After a waiting time of 3 hours in the transfer we could take our plane. We were lucky that we saw just in time that our flight gate was changed. No problem because we found it! After an hour flight and a nice healthy wrap later we arrived in Billund!
The beginning of an adventure: the bus, because here they have no street lights and the bikers cycling the just down the road. Arrived at the hostel we went to sleep because it is going to be a exhausting day thereafter. I will briefly summarize what we have all seen or it will take too long.
The first thing that is really really weird, the keyboard ... I'll show you. qwertyuiopåasdfghjklæøzxcvbnm. Weird eh? But there's live with that ..
Another major difference is that you see almost no students at the Universitie college. In Belgium everywhere you see you see students, here it is not like that. Not all lessons are also start at 8.30 but always at a different time ..
The first day was to get to know each other! And we got a tour by Haderslev (café, bar,...) then we went out for the first evening / night. What really surprised me was that the bars close at 12pm. It wasn´t a probleæ because some of us had already enough.
We have had our first lesson of Danish.
Mojn: Hi, Hej, ...
rødgrød med fløde: red porridge with cream.
Jeg hedder Nele: My name is Nele
Jeg kommer fra Belgien: I am a Belgian
....
Tuesday we did the workshop Art. it was really great, we were dressed up and face painting and take pictures. The result was great! (I'll have shiow you a picture)
Then we got half hour break at 11.30 it was really weird because it was for lunch.
Then how we had to make a portfolio or in our case a BLOG. and tata tata tata ....
The last thing fr this day is preparing food typical of our country we had: "Verloren brood"... mmhh
on Wednesday we went to a typically-Danish school. The students say the first name of the teacher, walking in their socks, interrupt him / her ... totally different from belgium. But very nice to see I
was impressed. Then they went to Aarhus (Århus): an old town and a beautiful museum.
This is the first part of the week!
Tak and Mojn!
Nela (they can not really pronounce my name)
Video: Denmark
Indeed Bram better late than never.. Because it is to much work to tell you everything about the rest of the week there here a short movie about it.
donderdag 17 maart 2011
Lesson 3: Logos VS. Mythos
What is Logos?
What is Mythos?
Well is looked it up on the internet.. This is what I found:
Mythos is a Greek word meaning "story, legend, plot" and may refer to:
As you can see it has a lot of definitions. I see it this way: Logos: Logic, we think everything true, we whant to prove that God exists. Belgium is a good exemple.
Mythos: Things without a reason, we don't thinks about it. We don't think it trough.
Water is H2O, but this don't give u some information about where, how, when. You know that it is water but more? You see people but do you know what is underneath?
The Pakistani people borrowed our Logos we have one place: Vaticaan,one person decides for us. (about faith)
They want a Vaticaan so they made Mekka. Another example is the Koran, long ago, he read a different way but now not anymore.
The east took over our Logos. I think we could say that we have a good Logos where we should be proud of. they also where jens now en want everything we have. THEY WANT TO BE LOGOS!
I think we have a good logos, but I also think that we think too much and especially to ourselves. Too bad because we have so many different people in this world. In the movie we saw she said: "We are all different in the world. It is not so much about people learning, as learning from themself. Because god would whant this."
I think this is a lot to think about...
PS: Only 10 days and I go to Denmark! Then this stuff will certainly go true my mind!
Big kisses Nele
What is Mythos?
Well is looked it up on the internet.. This is what I found:
Mythos is a Greek word meaning "story, legend, plot" and may refer to:
- Myth or Mythology
- The shared elements, characters, settings and themes in a set of works, e.g. Cthulhu Mythos
- Mythos (Aristotle)
- The first element (plot) of tragedy, as defined in Aristotle's Poetics
As you can see it has a lot of definitions. I see it this way: Logos: Logic, we think everything true, we whant to prove that God exists. Belgium is a good exemple.
Mythos: Things without a reason, we don't thinks about it. We don't think it trough.
Water is H2O, but this don't give u some information about where, how, when. You know that it is water but more? You see people but do you know what is underneath?
The Pakistani people borrowed our Logos we have one place: Vaticaan,one person decides for us. (about faith)
They want a Vaticaan so they made Mekka. Another example is the Koran, long ago, he read a different way but now not anymore.
The east took over our Logos. I think we could say that we have a good Logos where we should be proud of. they also where jens now en want everything we have. THEY WANT TO BE LOGOS!
I think we have a good logos, but I also think that we think too much and especially to ourselves. Too bad because we have so many different people in this world. In the movie we saw she said: "We are all different in the world. It is not so much about people learning, as learning from themself. Because god would whant this."
I think this is a lot to think about...
PS: Only 10 days and I go to Denmark! Then this stuff will certainly go true my mind!
Big kisses Nele
Lesson 2: E.T. Hall and high and low context cultures
Before I start to give my vision about high and low context, I will shortly tell you what it is.
High context: Less verbally explicit communication, less written/formal information. Knowledge is situational, relational. More like habits. This kind of context you will find in the east of the world.
Low context: Rule oriented, people play by external rules. More knowledge is codified, public, external and accessible. more interporsonal connection of shorter duration. task-centred. decisions and activities focus around what needs to be done, division of responisbilities. This kind of context you will find in the western cultures.
We live in a Low context country because in everything we do we follow rules. The law, school regulations, trafic rules. For everything we do we have them. Handy, because whitout it we would be lost. We would al do our thing but without thinking about the consequences. But at the same point we also are at High context. If somebody is sick we will go and visited of we will help them. No ware this rules is writen we just do it. So that is an example of our country.
Big kissis Nele
High context: Less verbally explicit communication, less written/formal information. Knowledge is situational, relational. More like habits. This kind of context you will find in the east of the world.
Low context: Rule oriented, people play by external rules. More knowledge is codified, public, external and accessible. more interporsonal connection of shorter duration. task-centred. decisions and activities focus around what needs to be done, division of responisbilities. This kind of context you will find in the western cultures.
We live in a Low context country because in everything we do we follow rules. The law, school regulations, trafic rules. For everything we do we have them. Handy, because whitout it we would be lost. We would al do our thing but without thinking about the consequences. But at the same point we also are at High context. If somebody is sick we will go and visited of we will help them. No ware this rules is writen we just do it. So that is an example of our country.
Big kissis Nele
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