culturally responsive literacy academy 1: literacy for what?
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Culturally Responsive Literacy Culturally Responsive Literacy Academy 1: Academy 1:
Literacy for What?Literacy for What?
IntroductionsIntroductions
Facilitator and Sponsors
www.nccrest.org
Leadership Academies
Roles
AgendAgendaa
Warm up Activity 40 minutes
Lecturette 1: Politics and Literacy 20 minutes
Activity 2: Literacy Assumptions in Standardized Testing 60 minutes
Break 10 minutes
Lecturette 2: Literacy for What? 15 minutes
Activity 3: CR Literacy Action Steps 60 minutes
Outcomes Review 10 minutes
Academy OutcomesAcademy Outcomes
Lecturette 1:Lecturette 1:Politics & LiteracyPolitics & Literacy
Literacy…Literacy…
• Ability to read and write. (American Heritage Dictionary)
• Use of language to construct personal and public worlds and to achieve full participation in society. (NCTE)
• "Literacy is the ability to identify, understand, interpret, create, communicate and compute, using printed and written materials associated with varying contexts. Literacy involves a continuum of learning to enable an individual to achieve his or her goals, to develop his or her knowledge and potential, and to participate fully in the wider society." (UNESCO)
““Old Deluder Satan Act”Old Deluder Satan Act”
“It being one chief point of the old deluder, Satan, to keep men from knowledge of the Scriptures…It is therefore ordered that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord has increased them by the number of fifty householders, shall forthwith appoint one within this town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read…”
http://personal.pitnet.net/primarysources/deluder.html
Common Themes Common Themes throughout Historythroughout History
• Legal battles over whose notions of knowledge, truth and values are considered legitimate
• Denial of access to literacy as a controlling means of certain groups
• Assessment of literacy using philosophically narrow and biased viewpoints.
Lecturette 2Lecturette 2
““Literacy for what?”Literacy for what?”
Literacy ModelsLiteracy Models
Teacher Perspective: Culturally Responsive Literacy Instruction Is…
*Contributions
*Additive
Moving towards Culturally Responsive Pedagogy: Banks’s Model
*Transformative
*Social Action
Shifting towards Culturally Responsive Literacy: Changing Definitions
Contributions
Additive
Transformative
Social Action
Shifting Literacy Shifting Literacy Definition Definition
LiteracyLiteracy Reading the Word
RewritinRewriting the g the WorldWorld
ContributionsAdditive
Transformative
Social Action
Shifting Purpose of Shifting Purpose of LiteracyLiteracy
ContributionsAdditive
Transformative
Social Action
PurposePurposeVocationa
l Aspiratio
ns
LiberatinLiberating Toolg Tool
Shifting Literature & Shifting Literature & Text Text
LiteratuLiterature & re & TextText
Canon Multiple Multiple VoicesVoices
ContributionsAdditive
Transformative
Social Action
Shifting Literacy Shifting Literacy Instruction Instruction
Transmission
InstructInstructionion
TransactTransactionion
ContributionsAdditive
Transformative
Social Action
Quality Literacy Quality Literacy Instruction Instruction
• Occurs in meaningful contexts
• Actively engages students in meaning construction
• Requires teachers to have a repertoire of instructional strategies
• Entails dynamic and changing conceptions of the roles of teachers and students in instructional encounters