Today, 35 preservice teachers in the B.Ed program @TrentUSoE looked at the @ONeducation Language curriculum document and curriculum expectations for vocabulary and morphology and quickly realized it’s hard to teach what you don’t know! To prepare these preservice teachers for the classroom, we looked at the curriculum expectations, learned about free and bound bases, and how affixes can change meaning of words! Students then explored “morpheme matrices” to create new words & defined them in kid-friendly Langauge. It was fun, fast, and a fantastic learning experience for everyone!! #Morphology #MorphemeMagic @TrentUniversity

“Decades of research clearly demonstrate that for novices (compromising virtually all students) direct, explicit instruction is more effective and more efficient than partial guidance.” @P_A_Kirschner Putting Students on the Path to Learning, a must-read article for all teachers and one I will be sharing this week in my pre-service teacher training Language and Literacy course @TrentUSoE. Link to full article: aft.org/sites/default/files/…