Author Archive: allisonpapke

Today I met with groups 3 & 4 for the first time, so this was their first lesson. These groups are both made up of 5 girls. Group 3 are the girls who scored 70%-79% on my pre-test. Group 4… (READ MORE)

LABELING AND DEFINING LITERACY IN 2016  Lanham’s definition of literacy is “the ability to understand information however presented” (p. 21) including being able to decode sounds and images (Lankshear and Knobel, 2006). Literacy has always included many skills, such as… (READ MORE)

Strategic Readers Good readers are active, set goals and evaluate progress, observe text structure, make predictions, are selective, create and question meaning, determine the meaning of unknown words, make connections to prior knowledge, monitor their understanding, and evaluate the value… (READ MORE)

Graduate Students At the University of Wisconsin- Madison (as well as at USF), graduate students are usually the ones teaching and supervising pre-service teachers in order to receive financial aid that funds their graduate studies. Many of these students do… (READ MORE)

When it comes to educational policy, I always believed there was a systematic and structured step-by-step process that resulted in the creation and enactment of educational policy. I thought that the breakdown in communication happened in the way policy was… (READ MORE)

In 1979, Paul Hill did a study for the RAND Corporation and found that the average migrant, Hispanic student was enrolled in four or more different pullout programs. In cases like this, the director of research planning at NIE, Iris… (READ MORE)

“The most basic purpose of both supervision and evaluation is to enhance the educational experiences and learning of all students” (Nolan & Hoover, 2011). This means that the goal of pre-service teacher education is to educate the pre-service teacher, and… (READ MORE)