Benchmark – Creating a Positive Literacy Environment
Student motivation and engagement in learning literacy can be measured by taking a closer look at the literacy learning environment. Having a positive literacy environment allows students to feel safe and comfortable, therefore increasing learning.
Write a 1,250-1,500 word essay on positive literacy environments. You must provide information on how to effectively promote and implement a positive learning environment.
Address the following:
- Explain the relationship between motivation and engagement in the literacy environment.
- Describe how a collaborative process of implementing digital and print materials will engage and motivate students.
- Demonstrate ways for teachers to integrate digital technologies in appropriate, safe, and effective ways and how you will assist them in these efforts.
- Describe how literacy groupings create positive literacy environments that support individual and collaborative learning.
- Provide 2-3 strategies for incorporating literacy into your grade level classroom and an explanation of how each promotes a positive literacy environment.
- Identify the importance of routines when creating a positive literacy environment.
- Explain how you will assist in and advocate for creating diverse classroom and school environments through culturally responsive literacy instruction rich in Christian worldviews.
- Explain how you as the reading/literacy specialist will advocate for equity at school, district, and community levels to continue to promote student success.
resources:
Read “Creating a Positive Learning Environment,” by Edutopia, located on YouTube (2019).
URL:https://youtu.be/T9ynlPs_NTM
Read “How Leadership Inspires Literacy-Rich Classrooms,” by Cedo, located on the Scholastic website (2016).
URL:http://edublog.scholastic.com/post/how-leadership-inspires-literacy-rich-classrooms#
Read “Three Rules for Writing-Rich Disciplinary Classrooms,” by Coppola and Woodard, from Education Update (2018).
Read “Anchors Aweigh!” by Berard et al., from Scholastic Teacher (2015).
Read “Creating a Dynamic Classroom Library: A Visual-Media, Learning Commons Approach,” by Heron-Hruby, Trent, and Stiles, from Kentucky English Bulletin (2016).
Read “Remix with Humor: Motivating Learners in an Inclusion Classroom with Visual Culture,” by Tornero and Kan, from Art Education (2017).
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