How effective is the Academic Literacy Plan? I am told to teach systematically and I believe this is the best way for an entire school to teach a set of 6 skills and 3 habits to a school that has over 1800 students. Others may argue that this systematic approach of teaching inhibits a teacher's creativity within their classroom or does it?
Mr. Salazar
I think ALP is great when you first start to be introduced to it, but then eventually it gets a bit um . . plain if its taught without having a bit of creativity.
ReplyDeleteHaving a little creativity would make the class a bit more lively, rather than having the students eventually not listening and not using the 6 skills and 3 habits as effectively as they should when they graduate. Since they will keep hearing the same thing year after year when they are still in Olympian.
ALP with a mix of fun or flexible way of teaching is better for the students in my opinion :)
The Academic Literacy Plan is effective because it prepares us for college & it tests your brain on what you already know & what to learn for the future reference. I believe that the 6 college readiness skills go hand in hand with the 3 habits of mind. I understood this by putting the ALP into practice last year,which had extended my knowledge. It's a better way to teach the ALP with creativity, projects, & tests to see what we know, what to learn, what it does for us, & to really focus on WHAT the ALP is. The systematic way of teaching the ALP doesn't stop or inhibit the creativity of a teacher, all the teacher has to do is make his/her way of teaching creative along with meaningful.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion I think the ALP (Academic Literacy Plan) can really help you in school. But from last years experience some teachers do stop teaching ALP to the class and the students forget about using ALP in class.
ReplyDeleteMaybe if we do activities that uses ALP over the years, then using the ALP can become a habit to the students and improve their grades.
The Academic Literacy Plan is really important to prepare us for college and for our future. The six skills correspond to the three habits. I think that the academic literacy plan is very helpful to use every day in high school to get used to applying it in college and in our everyday life. The plan does not prevent the teacher's creativity because they can all have a differnt and creative way of teaching the plan.
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ReplyDeleteI believe the Academic Literacy Plan is very effective because it helps every student know what skills will be needed in college. I also think that it provides students with the ability to not want to give up and to strive for the best. This plan will not keep the teachers from they're creativity because this is another great technique to help every student become the best they can be.
The Academic Literacy Plan is very helpful for us as students because it makes us realize what we really need to know to prepare us for college/university. It also helps us to develop Academic Language to understand other's thinking and try to see where their thinking was coming from. Teaching these six skills and three habits all four years of high school in my opinion, I think its a great thing because since you practice them throughout these four years you'll get use to using these methods.
ReplyDeleteThe Academic Literacy Plan helps us students get to a good college, challenges our brain to its fullest, and serves as a guide for students in school. But a classroom still needs creativity to set it apart from all the other classes, Being unique and diverse.
ReplyDeleteThe ALP does help the students learn skills and habits that ready us for a good college, but after being introduced to the ALP and getting to know it, it will get a bit plain. It would be great if we could find a way to be more creative and different.
ReplyDeleteThe Academic Literacy Plan is effective because it helps us prepare for a four year college or university. Olympian High School's ALP is effective, however, I believe it can suppress a teacher's creativity and original teaching methods. In my opinion, when teachers educate students with the 6 skills and 3 habits, their methods must work around to fit the requirements. By working around these requirements, their own originality and individual ways of teaching are altered just for the ALP. The Academic Literacy Plan indeed educates us students in effective ways, but how does it affect a teacher's teaching? Their methods can be worked around the 6 skills and 3 habits to show us students how original and clever they are by working their methods within the requirements, but what if there weren't any requirements and they could teach freely? Would their teaching be any better or would it worsen? I believe the Academic Literacy Plan is without a doubt an effective way to educate us students, but I can't help but feel concerned about the creativity of the teachers--if this reasoning makes any sense.
ReplyDeleteI think that the ALP system is a little too orderly, that it can effect teacher creativity, but it does work. All of the habits of mind and college readiness skills always apply and work on every material that we receive and thoroughly help us understand the target of the day.
ReplyDeleteWith the systematic ordering is a little too unreasonable though. Being able to learn all the concepts in the ALP in a timely and no kind of order can help with individual student needs, and have the teacher to teach in their style originally.
The Academic Literacy Plan enables us students to go more in depth with our knowledge. The ALP is repeated throughout the whole four years of high school, since it is engraved to our minds and becomes a natural process it challenges us to build a stronger work ethic and requires us to do better so that we could carry on the habits to succeed in college. Although it may restrain a teachers creativity, it promotes advanced intellectual skills that benefits the students.
ReplyDeleteI believe the ALP is very effective. From what I've heard from my friends now in college, the ALP does wonders when it comes to preparing students from college.
ReplyDeleteAs far as teaching the ALP systematically goes, I do believe that it is the best way to teach it to students. It allows us to slowly form connections between all the habits of mind and skills. Systematic teaching does limit the teacher's creativity and flexibility. However, if the teacher can successfully teach the ALP along side the lesson, it allows them to kill two birds with one stone, pardon the cliché
I do reckon that the Academic Literacy Plan is an effective method for us on the road to college. Why? Because this gives us a plan. The teachers here help and encourage perseverance, pushing us and helping this stay in our minds throughout our journey here. These 6 skills and 3 habits eventually become embedded in our brains. They become part of our daily study habits. They become something that we no longer think about, and just do, improving the results.
ReplyDeleteI don't think that this systematic approaches of teaching inhibits a teacher's creativity within the classroom. In fact I believe that it extends the creativity in a student and in the classroom because this method makes us think farther and more in depth than what we would on our own, without the method, analyze.
I believe the Academic Literacy Plan is very effective because it helps every student know what skills will be needed in college. I also think that it provides students with the ability to not want to give up and to strive for the best. This plan will not keep the teachers from they're creativity because this is another great technique to help every student become the best they can be.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I believe that the Academic Literacy Plan is a very efficient way of teaching students the six skills and three habits that are essential for acquiring long-term knowledge. However, I do agree with other fellow students that the teaching method for these skills becomes redundant and uncreative, especially since all of my six periods use the same activities to learn the ALP. When students hear the skills and habits being taught in the same format, they begin to lose interest and care for the ALP.
ReplyDeleteI also believe that the current teaching approach does inhibit the creativity in the classroom. The education method could be revised to include other disciplines and styles of teaching so that stundents are willing to participate in the learning and teaching of the skills and habits.
This has nothing to do with the ALP, but I am so hopeless when it comes to navigating sites such as these, that I can't seem to figure out how to post a blog about my educational experience on the right page. I'm sorry in advance, but I'll post it here anyway (:
ReplyDeleteAs any student, I felt excited and a little anxious for the new school year. I was worried about my class schedule, and I expected to be placed in certain classes with the teachers I asked for. It turns out I recieved no teachers I hoped for, with the exception of my English teacher. I was very disappointed because I felt like I would have to teach myself in my other classes. Many emotions ran through my mind at that point, and I feared that I would have to go through sopohmore year struggling to recieve good grades.
However, I would rather look at the brighter side of things so I quickly pushed that negative mind set away. I began to reflect on my learning strategies and I confirmed with myself with what I had to do to excel in my classes. So what first appeared to me as a huge dilema, is now a mere test of my intellectual perserverance. I am eager to succeed in my classes, and I hope to make my sophomore year one to remember.