Cognitive and Social-cultural Theories of development-Discuss
Sample Excerpt: Something that initially stuck out to me in Cecil’s A Comprehensive Literacy Program for Grades 4-8 was the idea of the whole set of what constitutes Language Arts. I have always seen Language Arts and just assumed: Reading and Writing, but in chapter one, we see that it is so much more than that. The Language Arts are listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing and visually representing.
Cecil refers to listening as “the neglected language art because it is seldom taught”. In another Teacher Education course, we were given the task to actively listen to a partner for two minutes without responding to anything they say. For me, this was extremely difficult because I consider myself a pretty chatty individual. This activity really made me take a step back and realize how much we expect our students to listen quietly without responding during the school day and just how difficult that must be for them. Rarely does a teacher teach listening, but we assume that our students can go for long periods of time without tuning us out or focusing on something else. This small passage on listening really struck me and helped me to take a step back and reevaluate what I expect from my students versus what I expect of myself as a teacher
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