Hi Everyone!
I thought I would kick off this week's blog post by talking about the 21st century literacy that I was assigned to work on for our jigsaw groups.
I thought I would kick off this week's blog post by talking about the 21st century literacy that I was assigned to work on for our jigsaw groups.
For the first few weeks of class I researched and
presented on the topic of moral literacy within the classroom. When I
was first assigned this topic I thought that it would be interesting
to learn about, and an important aspect to incorporate into the
classroom, but how? This was the main question I asked myself, as I
am sure many other educators have, when thinking about incorporating
moral literacy into my classroom. Thankfully, through my own
research, and research conducted by my fellow group members, I was
able to have this question answered.
That answer being that there is no one way of
successfully incorporating moral literacy into the classroom. One
suggestion is the use age appropriate books to demonstrate moral
lessons, placing students in the life of another person, and allowing
them to experience what the character experiences. For example, in
older grades students could read books such as The Diary of Anne
Frank and To Kill A
Mockingbird in order to see into
the lives and hardships of characters, and understand the effects
that the prejudices of others may have on a person (Tuana, 2007). While another could be creating and using different scenarios that
would cause students to think critically about how they would
approach the issue at hand, using their morals to guide them through
their decision making.
For more examples of how moral literacy can be
incorporated into the classroom, particularly from Kindergarten to
Grade 6, feel free to visit the following link provided by Nipissing
University
(http://csle.nipissingu.ca/Moral%20Literacy%20Activities.pdf). In
this list you will find a variety of different activities ranging
from levels K-6, that can be incorporated into different classroom
subjects such as Language Arts and Social Studies. Many of which can also be linked to the incorporation of other forms of literacy. For instance, within Ms.Cassidy's blog this week, storytelling can be viewed to also incorporate multicultural literacy into learning through her class hearing stories from a First Nations knowledge keeper at an art museum, resulting in new knowledge of a different culture.
References
Tuana, N. (2007) Conceptualizing moral literacy.
Journal of Educational Administration, 45(4),
364- 378.
