My literacy journey had a very interesting beginning. I am a first generation Mexican American‚ and as being first generation my first language is Spanish‚ everyone I interacted with when I was young was family or Hispanic. I picked up on some English from watching kid shows but I never really knew what the words meant. Prior to starting preschool‚ the school got me and my mother into an ELL summer class to get a head start on the school year. Up until around first grade or so I always had to meet
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harsh names and words‚ etc.) I was still embarrassed when asked about it. It may not seem like a big deal to others but in my little fourth grade brain my world had come crashing down before I even knew it. Fear of bullying aside‚ my struggle with literacy continued to worsen. Not only did it affect my english and reading classes‚ it also made me struggle with math and science due to the mix up of numbers and letters and my difficulty understanding and reasoning problems I had been assigned. Let it
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Joshua Davis Visual Literacy in Business Instructor: Jenna Soard October 1‚ 2012 The reason why I picked the way I communicated my message is because it is the easiest way to communicate a message to a large group of people. Using power point slide show can be easy because it can keep the presenter organize and on scheduled as far as getting a message across. Each slide goes in order‚ as you want to talk to your group of people. For me my message is talking about the achievements of my
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in 4th or 5th grade‚ but I could never write more than two pages without me changing the whole story because I didn ’t think it was cool anymore. So‚ I never really thought much about writing until I enrolled in our school ’s journalism and media literacy courses. This class was in charge of our school ’s newspaper and designed our yearbooks and programs for school events. I ended up being an editor for the paper. My job watched over all of the sports stories and events around our school and was in
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Pollyanna Steiner Unit 1: Learning Outcome 1 Roles‚ Responsibilities and Relationships in Lifelong Learning Summary -The whole unit must be completed to achieve the 3 credits available -Keep all relevant materials as evidence -The following units can help inform on this Unit:- Unit 2- Understanding inclusive learning and teaching in lifelong learning -Unit 4 - Using inclusive learning and teaching approaches in lifelong learning -Research‚ background‚ and reading sources should all
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Level 3 Theory Assessment Task 1 Roles Responsibilities and Behaviour My new role as an Instructor at College will present me with some unique challenges‚ although the majority of courses will be bricklaying the challenge will be delivering to youths‚ adults and a mixture of both age groups. The course material is pre-prepared with session plans setting out what needs to be achieved‚ if circumstances changed and I was required to prepare course notes‚ the responsibility would be mine to ensure
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Steven Iodice 25th September 2011 Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector Level 4 Theory Assignment 1 Describe what your role‚ responsibilities and boundaries would be as a teacher in terms of the teaching/training cycle. Reflect on this. People learn for different reasons. Some to further their career development‚ others for personal fulfilment or to keep up with modern trends. ‘The pensioner‚ trying to gain skills so that they can communicate in today’s electronic era’ (Wilson‚ 2008:
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Visual Literacy and Advertisements In American society today‚ we can’t go anywhere‚ watch or do anything without exposure to some type of advertisement. Companies spend millions of dollars in efforts to reach us as consumers. They use manipulative messages and deliver underlying promises to get us to buy their product. Advertisements reflect the political‚ economic‚ and social environment of their time. As consumers‚ it is important that we are able to deconstruct those advertisements and understand
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Task 1 – Part 1 – Bobbie Ruddy How could a teacher/tutor establish and maintain a safe and supportive learning environment for their learners? What methods and approaches could be used to do this? Explain what a teacher/tutor could do to promote appropriate behaviour and respect for others. I have been asked to demonstrate that I can clearly answer the above questions using my own insight‚ research and motes from my first PTTLS session with Sally Welsh. I hope to show clearly that I grasp this
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Supporting literacy for vocational learners This case study focuses on Emma‚ a student in the level two Beauty Therapy class. She left school with 6 GCSE’s (neither of them English or maths) and went into work until the age of 23 when she decided to go back to college to study beauty therapy. During the initial assessment stages it became apparent that Emma struggled with some of her literacy skills. ‘Literacy covers the ability to: speak‚ listen and respond‚ read and comprehend‚ write to communicate
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