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Understanding Literacy and Numeracy

•What does it mean to be literate?

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Our Alberta students need many ways to discover the world and make sense of it

by acquiring, connecting, creating and communicating

meaning in a variety of contexts throughout daily life.

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Language Arts is a subject that…

• focuses on the language and its forms and functions.

• explicitly teaches students to develop and apply strategies for comprehending, expressing, composing and responding in a variety of contexts.

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WHAT IS LITERACY?

• Literacy is interacting with and making meaning of your world.

• Literacy is learned, applied and developed through a variety of experiences in and beyond the classroom walls.

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Literacy is•the ability to acquire, connect, create and communicate meaning in a wide variety of contexts.

Language Arts is•the study of language learning, and•the knowledge, skills and attitudes of how language works.

What is the Relationship Between Language Arts and Literacy?

• maintain a blog• collaborate virtually in

real time (videoconference, Yammer, GoogleDocs, Skype, Twitter)

• design an app• create, produce and

share video• use e-portfolios

(LinkedIn)• instant

messaging/texting• Wikipedia

• maintain a blog• collaborate virtually in

real time (videoconference, Yammer, GoogleDocs, Skype, Twitter)

• design an app• create, produce and

share video• use e-portfolios

(LinkedIn)• instant

messaging/texting• Wikipedia

• write a speech• present a report• read a letter • write a resume• talk on the phone• collaborate face to face• teleconferencing • encyclopedia/dictionary

• write a speech• present a report• read a letter • write a resume• talk on the phone• collaborate face to face• teleconferencing • encyclopedia/dictionary

The Evolution of Numeracy

Numeracy is the confidence and habits of mind to engage with, critically assess, reflect upon and apply quantitative and spatial information when making judgments and decisions or taking action in all aspects of daily living.

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Numeracy •Generally requires quantitative or spatial information in everyday situations or contexts that have a tendency to be complex or less defined •Understanding develops horizontally

Mathematics•Often requires procedural knowledge and understanding applied to more defined or life-like problems •Understanding develops vertically

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Mathematics is its own discipline.• numbers and mathematical

concepts are objects of study

Numeracy contains some math skills/understandings are required to be numerate.

Numeracy is cross-curricular because it must have a context in or outside of a school setting.

• numbers are used to describe or label

• dependent on multiple factors• requires more than one literacy• influenced by society or culture.

Numeracy is employed in every aspect of being an engaged thinker and ethical citizen with an entrepreneurial spirit.

Higher level Mathematics is required in post-secondary education as well as in a variety of professions, occupations and research.

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Greg and his family are helping their friends move from Edmonton to Calgary, a distance of 300 km. They are using his father’s truck to transport the furniture. If they travel at a speed of 100 km per hour, how long will it take to return to Edmonton?

Answer: __________________________

Looking at a Problem from the Perspective of Numeracy

Greg and his family are helping their friends move from Edmonton to Calgary, a distance of 300 km. They are using his father’s truck to transport the furniture. If they travel at a speed of 100 km per hour, how long will it take to return to Edmonton?

• How long will it take to unload the furniture?

• Will they stop to eat?• Will they need to stop

for gas?

What answers would be

reasonable?

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Consider the Following Quantitative Information

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The Lack of Pirates is Causing Global Warming

Being Numerate Matters

http://education.alberta.ca/teachers/program/literacy.aspx

Watch video and record literacy and numeracy activities

What New Ideas Can You Add to Your

Understanding of Literacy

and Numeracy?

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Literacy and Numeracy Are Essential for Developing Engaged Thinkers and Ethical Citizens With an

Entrepreneurial Spirit

I want to be prepared for

further education.

I want to think critically when I read statistics in the media.

I want to know what is

happening in the environment and

how I can take care of it.

As a citizen, I want to make

informed decisions.

I want to be confident, creative

and take risks in my career or

business.

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Draft Literacy and Numeracy Benchmarks are:

•expectations and behaviours at developmentally appropriate age groups;•inclusive;•applied in diverse contexts and for a variety of purposes;•the responsibility of all educators; and•lifelong processes.

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Draft Benchmark Components

Awareness

Knowledge and

Understanding

Strategies

• Understanding the roles literacy and numeracy play in attaining insight and learning

• Identifying oneself as literate and numerate

• Essential concepts, skills and social or cultural experiences that are foundational building blocks

• A set of deliberate actions, procedures or processes applied in a learning situation to perform a task requiring literacy or numeracy

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Component

Organizing Element Benchmark

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How Will the Draft Benchmarks Be Used?

Curriculum must provide clear evidence of literacy and numeracy within and across subject/discipline areas.

(Standard 9)

Student Learning Achievement (SLAs)

Curriculum Development Prototyping Guide (August 2013) – page 16 Guide du prototypage pour l’élaboration du curriculum (Aout 2013) – page 20

• provided with the 3 components and 8 elements

• given some benchmarks to guide your thinking

• arrange the missing benchmarks in the appropriate places

• keep track of your thinking/strategies for selecting

What catches your eye about the Numeracy Benchmarks?

What was confusing/overwhelming? What was exciting

What is the key message? What thoughts became clearer?

How could you apply why you have learned in your position?

Group by colour (groups of 3) Individually read the selected section of the

literacy benchmark Individually use sticky notes and record –key

ideas, a phrase a sentence that would represent am important idea or concept

As a group place your sticky notes by category in the center of the table

What themes, big ideas emerge

Form groups of 3 –one from every colour (yellow, pink, green)

Share your key themes, ideas

Pause to reflect from your focus group conversations

Quiet reflection Walk about Respond to the

questions Respond to each

other’s responses

I determine how being literate/numerate enables me and others to create and express meaning.

I use my literacy/numeracy skills to represent what I know, what I am able to do and what I need to learn.

Form groups of 3. Each person reads one section

1. What is Metacognition2. Metacognition and Automaticity3. Metacognition and the Classroom

Teach each other

Why do we want our students to develop the personal habit of metacognition and awareness?

I connect and select background knowledge and personal experiences to develop new understandings

Quick Write

Prepare an elevator speech

Make your pitch with your colleagues