knowledge framework
Hello everyone,
Hope you're enjoying the weekend and that it hasn't been too busy. I just came back from a Chinatown field trip with my Social Issues class and if you haven't visited there lately, I highly encourage everyone to go - what a nice place to spend the afternoon.
I've been meaning to post about the Knowledge Framework - I'm finding it a bit difficult to understand. I was introduced to the KF briefly in LLED 478 last year, but my particular teacher didn't encourage us to use it (because she didn't like it). I know that this method may or may not be used by our secondary school teachers so I'm wondering how familar we should be with it. What I don't understand is how and when to teach the content and language of the KF (is it limited to one or two knowledge structures per lesson or can we focus on more structures?) Can we teach principles/sequence and evaluation/choice in one lesson? I assume that the overall goal is to teach all six structures within a unit. I like how key thinking skills and language, as well as key visuals, are layed out for each structure but I'm not sure how many structures each activity/lesson should have.
I agree that it was so useful and practical learning about error correction this week - thanks Brenda and Dave for your presentation. I liked your idea of posting on Dave's ESL cafe - what an excellent way to receive feedback - I'd like to try that in the future. Sophia - I really appreciated your presentation on syllabus design (although the topic was too complex for me to understand most of it) You showed how much experience you have in this field by tackling such a difficult chapter and I admire that a lot!
See you all tomorrow,
Hope you're enjoying the weekend and that it hasn't been too busy. I just came back from a Chinatown field trip with my Social Issues class and if you haven't visited there lately, I highly encourage everyone to go - what a nice place to spend the afternoon.
I've been meaning to post about the Knowledge Framework - I'm finding it a bit difficult to understand. I was introduced to the KF briefly in LLED 478 last year, but my particular teacher didn't encourage us to use it (because she didn't like it). I know that this method may or may not be used by our secondary school teachers so I'm wondering how familar we should be with it. What I don't understand is how and when to teach the content and language of the KF (is it limited to one or two knowledge structures per lesson or can we focus on more structures?) Can we teach principles/sequence and evaluation/choice in one lesson? I assume that the overall goal is to teach all six structures within a unit. I like how key thinking skills and language, as well as key visuals, are layed out for each structure but I'm not sure how many structures each activity/lesson should have.
I agree that it was so useful and practical learning about error correction this week - thanks Brenda and Dave for your presentation. I liked your idea of posting on Dave's ESL cafe - what an excellent way to receive feedback - I'd like to try that in the future. Sophia - I really appreciated your presentation on syllabus design (although the topic was too complex for me to understand most of it) You showed how much experience you have in this field by tackling such a difficult chapter and I admire that a lot!
See you all tomorrow,
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