3-2-1 TUESDAYS WITH MS NIV

Posted on 3 Oct 2023 by nivedita mukerjee

Issue #169, 3rd October 2023

What needs to happen to have all students engaged, excited and empowered in learning environments? What can make a teacher become a facilitator from a lecturer? how can will of the adult shift to the voice of the students? Who makes the rules to manage the systems? What can put our students at an advantage such that they can have a deeper and richer experience giving a wider opportunity of success to each of them? Let us nurture, mentor and facilitate learning for our students and ourselves.

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Three images of the week:

Two Thoughts of the Week:

“Empowerment isn’t a buzzword among leadership gurus. It’s a proven technique where leaders give their teams the appropriate training, tools, resources, and guidance to succeed.”

John Rampton

“The gig economy is empowerment. This new business paradigm empowers individuals to better shape their own destiny and leverage their existing assets to their benefit.”

John McAfee

One Video of the Week:

Kathy D’Antoni, Ed.D., a lifelong educator and statewide education administrator in West Virginia, shares her experiences working with simulated workplace programs in in West Virginia schools. She highlights evidence suggesting that education should move from a compliance model that allows adults to more easily manage the system to a system focused on student engagement and empowerment. She suggests common sense student-centered changes to the school culture to empower students and uplift tomorrows.

Dr. Kathy D’Antoni recently retired from the West Virginia Department of Education. During her tenure, she served as the Associate State Superintendent of Schools and an Assistant State Superintendent, and served on the Governor’s Workforce Council, Council for Community College System, Governor’s Council on Substance Abuse, Prevention and Treatment, and Southern Regional Education Board committees. She is also former Vice Chancellor of the West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education.

Dr. D’Antoni has worked extensively with curriculum alignment, curriculum development, workforce development, and economic development projects including the national and international award-winning innovative Simulated Workplace initiative, which was selected in 2020 as a top education innovation initiative by Finland’s HundrED.org She has authored articles and books on effective transition practices from public schools to higher education and education‘s role in the economy.

Guest Expert of the Week: Reading with Ms. Meenu.

Thinking about Reading: Strategies that readers use to construct meaning and decode words.

1. What do readers do to help themselves understand and enjoy their reading?

· Use their schema to make connections between what they already know and new information in the text.

· Create mental images.

· Use their schema and clues in the text to infer its meaning.

· Ask questions before, during and after reading.

2. What do readers do when they come to a word they don’t know?

· First look at the picture and think about the story.

· Next go back, point and slide.

· Go on.

· Then try a word .

Ask: Does it make sense?

Do the letters match?

Does it sound like language?

· Readers also:

Sound out words in chunks.

Find little words in big words.

Happy Reading!

Meenu Gera, consulting home and school librarian and reading guide

Dear reader,
I have been a research scientist, a journalist, and an educator for over 3 decades. I read and, I write. With this weekly newsletter, I share what I read, learn, and, experience. At the same time, I engage with students, parents, and teams of teachers across K-12 schools, higher education institutions, and ed-tech organizations.

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