Mark+Barfield's+Work+Page

Internship school: Northampton County High School East, Conway, NC

Teaching experience: I taught secondary English for the past 16 years.

Area of expertise: I enjoy baking and working in the yard.

Literacy is the ability to read, comprehend, understand, and apply meaning to a text. Being literate is the ability to communicate effectively with others and to understand a given text. Also, it is being able to add specific skills to your life.

New literacies consist financial and economic literacy, entrepreneurial literacy, and global literacy. Digital, creative, and critical skills are a part of new literacy

Take Aways 1. Literacy is creative and and critical. It is a complex and multi-facet process that includes comprehension, media, art, financial and global literacy.

2. Learning is a social activity.

3. The big five is crucial to the reading component: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension.

4. Basic Interpersonal communication skills is an intimate communication skill to utilize in a smaller setting.


 * Day 2**

Allington's 6 T's of Effective Literacy Instructions:

1. Time-50% of time-student "doing" reading and writing; 2. Text-rich supply and variety of books provided; 3. Teaching-"active instruction"-modeling and demonstration of the useful strategies good readers employ rather than the worksheet or commercial package approach; 4. Talk-fostering much student talk; 5. Tasks-work completed is more substantive and challenging; 6. Testing-work and awarded grades based more on effort and improvement rather than just achievement.


 * Making Inferences**

Read between the lines Combining textual knowledge with prior knowledge

Day 3

1. Literacy is ongoing and should be a part of every class. 2. Students need opportunity to engage with the text and to connect to prior knowledge. 3. The big 5 is important to literacy: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, text comprehension

Principles n Broadened Definitions & Descriptions in 21st Century n Process Matters!!!! n Power of Peers, Collabortion, & Learning as Social Activity n Meeting Needs of Individual Students Paramount n Energizing Experiences Generate Literacy n Literature Reflects and Expands Life n Language, Life, & G.U.M. Have an Interactive Connection n Genuine Inquiry Serves to Question & Learn n Technology/Technologies and the 21st Century

Writing to learn-using writing as the opportunity to recall facts and to make applicable.

Process varies from student to student. Allow students to develop their own processes and be creative.

Teachers share with students; teachers model the the writing process.

Closure
 * **Processing the Workshop: Takeaways and Action Steps**
 * Reactions? What did you see? I enjoyed the atmosphere of risk-free space, where student had one to one individualized instruction. Students were able to learn and to take risk without the fear of failure. I enjoyed seeing the interaction between the college students and the middle school students.
 * What "lessons" would you take as a future administrator from what we saw? As a future administrator, I would allow teachers to create open classrooms to allow students to engage in peer to peer writing/reading workshops.
 * How did the workshop connect to the principles?: Process Matters, Meeting Needs of Individual Students paramount, Literature reflects and expands life, technology/technologies and the 21st century, Power of peers, collaboration, & learning as social activity