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How do we justify the use of computers in the
classroom? What CURRICULUM guidelines do we use and how do we
ASSESS for student progress? These are competency issues
technology resource teachers and all teachers ask to assure
success. We at Interest-Driven Learning have done extensive
curricular research and development over the past 15 years -- we
have helped to make the magical blend of phonics and whole
language work repeatedly for novice reader/writers from 4 to 40.
Read on to find out how!
Interest-Driven Learning has created a number of
developmentally-appropriate curricular guidelines for teachers to
use in incorporating the computer into the reading and writing
plans for their classrooms:
research-proven, interest-driven, child-centered curricular strategies that work to promote natural development of print
literacy skills in a concrete, hands-on, auditorily-supported process
criterion-referenced assessment
strategies that prove progress to students, teachers,
parents and administrators
These guidelines
are available through the teacher's manuals of Dr. Peet's
software:
Dr. Peet's TalkWriter has 43 suggested lessons in its teacher
manual, designed to take emergent writers from pre-letter
recognition to experience-story writing, poetry, and letters to
friends and family. With the lessons is a chart to help teacher
assess the developmental levels of each emergent writer. The Journal section of the software allows individual files
in which to save each child's work, and each printout contains the date and time of day the work was accomplished.
Dr. Peet's PictureWriter includes a teacher manual with nearly 20
different lesson suggestions for guiding the novice
sentence-writer in first creating failure-free, printable,
talking picture sentences, and then in expanding them to be quite
precise statements of likes and dislikes.
In our hands-on how-to sessions, we show teachers first how the
interest-driven learning
process works for teaching reading and writing, then how to put
the process to work in
their classroom on Monday! In our workshops, teachers use our
guidebooks:
Dr. Peet's Guide to Teaching Reading with Interactive Fiction
Dr. Peet's Guide to Teaching Writing with Talking Word
Processors, Talking Picture Writers, and Literacy Play Software
Dr. Peet's Guide to Teaching Interest-Driven Reading and Writing
on the World Wide Web
We look forward to working with you! E-mail us for information on
workshop/on-site
training schedules: drpeet@drpeet.com
