L 517 Brozo - Motivation

pg 133-162
7 Guidelines for Creating Motivating Contexts for Literacy & Learning

1. Elevate Self-Efficacy
2. Engender Interest in Learning
3. Generate situational interest (for a particular lesson)
4. Connect outside- with inside-school literacies and learning
5. Make an abundance of Interesting Texts available
6. Expand Student Choices and Options
7. Structure Collaboration for Motivation

What might get in the way?

1. students who come to HS already defeated - feeling like they can't succeed in reading - providing enough background knowledge to be successful- or choosing activities in the communities in which students have a great deal of bg knowledge
   
2. active participants vs passive learning, how does it relate to their lives, provide opps for enjoyable reading
3. time, money/resources, assessment pressures
   

L 517 Brozo CH 2 - PRincipled Practices for Effective Reading and Learning

pg 23 - Literacy and content area learning strategies are effective only when they are applied in appropriate ways and not as a "one-size-fits-all" approach.

Principles that Promote engaged Reading and Learning
1. Connect everyday literacies and funds of knowledge with academic literacy and learning.
2. Use assessment as a tool for learning and future growth - CATs
3. Engage and sustain effort in reading, writing, and thinking
4. Express critical perspectives and interpretations
5.Gather and organize print and non-print sources for increasing understanding of information and ideas
6. Expand and generate new understandings using information and communication techniques

Adolescent Literacy: Brozo CH 1Adol Literacies and identity

"Adolescence is marked by an active and self-conscious process of identity construction" (pg 7)

4th grade slump - they lose interest in more formal academic endeavors..."As young people become more cognitively astute and self-aware they seek contexts that support their growing sense of autonomy, desire fr social networking, and identity development." (pg 8)

What works?
Offer a curriculum that is responsive to the interest and abilities they b ring to school and pays attention to who they are as individuals.

Language, culture, and identity are intertwined...

Literacy in everyday lives of youth-IM, Internet, compu games, using tech like MP3s

Schools should make room for the ways student discourse has changed - expressed through variety of media...
What counts as literacy?" (pg 13) Help them translate the familiar to the unfamiliar - literacy on their terms to literacy in academic arenas...

Dispelling stereotypes about adolescents and thinking of possibilities.