Reading for Change: Understanding Educational Documents

 

What is Reading for Change?

Reading for change means reading for a different interpretation and understanding. Reading for Change enables students to undertake a quest for mutual humanization. Furthermore, reading for change means doing reading in a way that differs from traditional reading. Additionally, these perspectives are created from an individual's own identity, background, and experiences.

 

In reading for change, students must be constantly challenged to deconstruct clichés and archetypes. Furthermore, students must develop reality-based working definitions of morality, justice, equality. Most notably, reading for a change allows students to feel valued and empowered. In addition, reading for a change promotes students' critical thinking. Students can also come up with innovative and creative ideas through reading for a change.

 

What are educational documents?

Educational documents are documents used by the teacher. Furthermore, teachers use these documents for teaching purposes. Most notably, these documents help in the planning, preparation, implementation and evaluation of the teaching process. Additionally, these documents support reading for a change. These documents also include schemes of work, lesson plans and records of work.

 

Scheme of work

The scheme of work refers to a detailed breakdown of the entire syllabus. Furthermore, this division takes place into weeks, lessons, dates and a year. Also, the main purpose of this division is for the purpose of systematic and organized teaching. The scheme of work certainly encourages reading for a change. Most notably, the scheme of work is derived from the curriculum. In addition, the scheme of work helps to understand how the educational content must be covered for each class. Coverage of this educational content must occur on a weekly, semester or yearly basis. The working diagram has the following components:

 

Week - indicates the week of the semester in which a specific topic must be taught.

 

Lesson – Refers to a specific lesson of the week. Furthermore, a specific topic/subtopic is taught in this lesson.

 

Topic/Subtopic- Refers to specific areas for study in the curriculum.

 

Specific objective – This means what the teacher wants to achieve at the end of the lesson.

 

Lesson plans

A lesson plan refers to a detailed description of what the lesson must cover. Next, the lesson plan is extracted from the scheme of work. A lesson plan helps the teacher in the following ways:

Have a clear focus on the content and how it must be taught.

Organize the content to be taught in advance.

Plan, prepare and compile teaching resources.

Taking advantage of opportunities to conceptualize and visualize learning strategies in advance.

Select and design appropriate assessment methods.

Job records

A work record is a document that contains details of works 

taught by a teacher. In addition, the entry on this document 

must be made daily. The teacher primarily makes notes after 

each lesson. The record of work ensures the continuity of the 

teaching of a specific class. In addition, it also ensures that the new teacher keeps track of where to start teaching a 

particular class. Job records have the following components:

 

Time Frame – Indicates the day, date, week and lesson.

 

Work covered – takes the form of sub-topics. In addition, the derivation is from a specific target.

 

Notes section - refers to statements that reflect the success and failures of the lesson.

 

Name/Sign/Initials- Indicates the identity of the teacher teaching the lesson. Above all, it helps in accountability and transparency.