Please join us for a Literacy Colloquy Speaker Series talk given by Dr. Susan V. Piazza, Dr. Cody Williams, and the ELATE Team titled: "Valid and Reliable Data: Classroom Observation in ESL Teacher Preparation" ABSTRACT Researchers from Western Michigan University will share classroom observation methods and experiences from an ongoing five-year research project titled English… Read More »
Please join us for a talk given by Dr. Paula Winke & Xiaowan Zhang titled: 'Third-grade Reading Assessment and Retention Theories and Policies in Michigan and in the USA' Link to video of the presentation: https://mediaspace.msu.edu/media/t/1_6bbrqi5m
From Dr. Gholdy Muhammad's community work with Black Girls W.R.I.T.E (Writing to Represent our Identities, our Times and our Excellence), historical and archival research on Black literary societies and from conducting a literature review over the past 25 years of Black girl's literacies, she found the Black girls literacies are consumed in defining self, intellectualism,… Read More »
The internet and the evolution of our digital world are innate in the post-truth paradigm. Digital literacy research and instruction have never been more relevant or critical. Our presentation will share insights from our systematic literature review of a decade of educational research covering digital literacy on social media. Including articles that address teachers’ and… Read More »
New and seasoned academics alike often find themselves puzzled about the "game" of the job search, and wondering such questions as ... What is the typical procedure for search committees in terms of interviewing and hiring faculty? How should I go about selecting appropriate positions to apply to? How should I prepare for job talks?… Read More »
For nearly two thousand years readers have been comprehending prose in the form of hand-held, bound books. What are the opportunity costs of comprehending prose in this form? Prior to the binding of prose in book form, readers comprehended writing that was drawn in rolling sand, painted on giant slabs, chiseled in large stones, inked… Read More »
This presentation is about the stories people tell themselves in order to cope with the stress of high-stakes test. The people in this case are preservice teachers. The test, teacher licensure exams. Drawing from material in my recently published book, Navigating Teacher Licensure Exams: Success and Self-Discovery on the High-Stakes Path to the Classroom (Routledge, 2019), I’ll… Read More »
Rescheduled for Wednesday, February 20. Research has shown the benefits of peer interaction to scaffold learning in relation to disciplinary literacies. I extend the knowledge of these studies and examine peer interaction and the affordances it creates when emergent bilinguals (EBs) engage with multimodal texts in content areas to make meaning of these highly skilled… Read More »
Dialogic discourse emphasizes making meaning through discussion and stands in contrast to Initiation-Response-Evaluation interactions common in classrooms. This form of discourse is a desired medium through which students can develop various academic skills such as reading comprehension and vocabulary development; however, its relationship to writing quality is less understood. This talk will discuss a study… Read More »
Despite the increasing emphasis in multicultural/bilingual education and critical literacy pedagogies, little is still known about how literacy teachers can open discussions about race and gender with young children, especially in bilingual classrooms. This presentation will describe the possibilities and challenges of early critical literacy as a space where young children examine children’s literature critically… Read More »
