Reading is one of the most important skills amongst the four skills of English Language. In this video you will be able to know all about reading comprehension skills from scratch. For more such videos subscribe my You tube channel Bisma Usman - The Language Instructor
Reading is one of the most important skills amongst the four skills of English Language. In this video you will be able to know all about reading comprehension skills from scratch. For more such videos subscribe my You tube channel Bisma Usman - The Language Instructor
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Travel & Tourism Champions - Presentation by Karl Ulrich Garnadt, CEO of Lufthansa at the NOAH 2015 Conference in Berlin, Tempodrom on the 9th of June 2015.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
2. Imagine your employer has just handed you an
important document to read and tells you he
expects a summary of the material on his desk by
tomorrow. You take a look and see it is written in a
language totally foreign to you. After your initial
confusion, you may try to make some sense of it
and scan the document. While you may be able
to phonetically decipher the words and sound
them out, that’s where your “reading” would end.
You wouldn’t have any idea what the words you
just read actually meant. How would you feel?
3. Comprehension is the complex cognitive
process involving the intentional
interaction between reader and text to
extract meaning.
It’s answering “yes” to the question, “Did
you ‘get’ what you read?
4. The capacity of the mind to perceive
and understand”.(Webster collegiate)
To receive or take in the sense of (as
letters or symbols) by scanning; to
understand the meaning of written
words. ( Webster dictionary)
If readers can read the words but do not
understand what they are reading,
they are not really reading.
5. The ability to understand or get meaning
from text. It is the reason for reading and a
critical component of all content learning.
It is the interaction between the text being
read and the reader’s existing prior
knowledge and expectations will
generate meaning and comprehension.
( Leu and Kinzer, 1995)
Comprehension is not something that
happens after reading ( Fountas, 2000)
6. Some students require
explicit
comprehension
strategy instruction.
Teachers play a critical
role in helping students
develop
comprehension
strategies.
Initially comprehension
strategies can be
taught one at a time.
Research indicates
that comprehension
strategies should be
explicitly taught and
modeled long term at
all grade levels.
Students should
practice the strategy
with guidance, using
many texts, until they
have a good
understanding.
7. Good readers use a number of strategies:
Asking questions
Making connections
a. Text to self
b. Text to text
c. Text to world
Making predictions
Inference
Summarize
evaluate
9. The term basically describes reading and
writing skills that make it very difficult to
manage daily living and work in an
environment that requires reading
beyond the most elementary level.
People with such skills may not be purely
illiterate, meaning they can read and
write in some capacity, but their reading
comprehension level is so low they can’t
manage the every day aspects of life.
10. The lack of strong reading comprehension
skills obviously affects a student’s success
in school. Academic progress depends on
understanding, analysing, and applying
the information gathered through reading.
But it goes much further than that. Poor
reading comprehension skills have been
also been linked to poverty and crime.
Consider these facts:
11. • Over 60% of inmates in the U.S prison
system have reading skills at or below the
fourth grade level.
• 85% of U.S juveniles in prison are
functionally illiterate.
• 43% set of adults with extremely low
reading skills live at or below the poverty
line.
And even more alarming:
• Nearly 2/3 of students who reach the
fourth grade without proficient reading
skills end up on welfare or in prison.
12. developing strong reading
comprehension skills is essential for a rich
academic, professional, and personal
life.
13. Comprehension, just as reading, is
integral to everyday life in our society.
Students need to realize that we need to
understand everything we read in order
to learn from the text we interact with.
Because of the demands of high stakes
testing, students need to learn to extract
important information and transfer their
knowledge to read and respond to
different types of questions.
Students need to use comprehension
skills across different mediums such as
text books, the internet, and even video
games
14. Starting at the kindergarten
level, teachers should
emphasize that readers read
for meaning, not just to be
“word identifiers.”
We as teachers need to model
to students that reading is
thinking, and how much we
value that process.
Making connections to ones’
self, to another text, or to the
world are very important
strategies.
“The direct and explicit
teaching of comprehension
strategies helps K-3 students
become active readers who
are engaged in understanding
written text. Teachers provide
direct and explicit teaching of
comprehension strategies
through explanation,
demonstration or modeling,
guided practice, and
opportunities for children to
practice using comprehension
strategies when reading grade-
appropriate children’s text.”