Teacher Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 111 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Teacher Chapter Abstracts for Teachers

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 111 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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Creative Teaching, 1

• Sylvia Ashton-Warner was an early proponent of organic teaching, which focused on using a child's personal experiences as the starting point for learning.

• She used these techniques to teach young Maori children in New Zealand.

• Using a child's natural "first words" as a way to begin reading was not a new idea, having been mentioned by Voltaire and used by Tolstoy at a Russian peasant school.
• Ashton-Warner argued that Maori children were being forced to adopt a white, foreign culture at too young an age.

• She advocated allowing them to use culturally significant words to learn how to read.

• She believed that after they learned how to read using words that were meaningful to them, they would then have a smoother transition to the dominant culture.
• Many of the children in Ashton-Warner's class were emotionally damaged.

• This damage was reflected in the often violent images from...

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