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Research Question: When using priming in the classroom, does the type of prime(in terms of style and content) affect its effectiveness? Priming for teaching is a strategy which previews difficult content or concepts(there are actually 6 variants of priming, but will not be discussed here, as most aren't as applicable in a classroom context.) in order to prepare students to be able to more effectively think when working on those content/concepts later in the lesson. The existence of the phenomena has been known and used in various fields for much of the past decade. It is primarily seen in advertisements, but its usefulness in teaching is only started seeing interest at the end of the 21st century. Currently, most research focuses on conceptual priming, with the major seminal study done by Harris et al. in which food consumption was monitored after a prime was given, one group was given a prime for eating healthily, the other prime looked at snacking as a fun activity. It was fo...

There is no single skill more important, more powerful in its ability to shake the foundations of our world than the ability to write well. There are several factors that affect peoples inability to see this truth, as they often don't consider the knock-on effects of writing, or the sheer variety of skills that writing well encompasses. Writing well helps us consider, reflect, and organize our thoughts. It lets us write our speeches, revise them, and turn them into powerful orations capable of toppling entire regimes. It helps us remember key details and important facts, learn how to use persuasive appeals, touch the heartstrings of those we so desperately want attention from. It informs and persuades our potential employers, helps us communicate with loved ones on a daily basis, even helps us mend our own souls through reflection. What's most amazing is that writing well is an even more necessary skill in today's global environment. We are competing on a scale never see...

Classroom context: Ningbo Xiaoshi High School, number 86 ranked public school in China by their dept. of Education. Student backgrounds are native Chinese who have at least conversational English, and are preparing to attend universities in the west in which English is the language of instruction. Economic background is at least middle class, usually upper-class. I am currently teaching Grade 11, DP1 (grade 12), and Extended Essay workshops. I am teaching IBDP1 Language B, which is a synthesis of a literature class and an ESL class. Students still need practice speaking and using a variety of sentence structures, along with the the more basic literature skill-sets of taking notes, annotating, summarizing, interpreting, analyzing, etc. My Philosophy of Reading and Writing instruction: I definitely consider myself a social constructionist, in that meaning is created through social contexts and is developed holistically. As a result, my philosophy is much in the same vei...

Classroom context: Ningbo Xiaoshi High School, number 86 ranked public school in China by their dept. of Education. Student backgrounds are native Chinese who have at least conversational English, and are preparing to attend universities in the west in which English is the language of instruction. Economic background is at least middle class, usually upper-class. I am currently teaching Grade 11, DP1 (grade 12), and Extended Essay workshops. I am teaching IBDP1 Language B, which is a synthesis of a literature class and an ESL class. Students still need practice speaking and using a variety of sentence structures, along with the the more basic literature skill-sets of taking notes, annotating, summarizing, interpreting, analyzing, etc. Whole language Learning is extremely important, especially in the classes I’m teaching now. Since students are very capable and motivated high level students, they mostly need to simply improve their vocabulary to perform well on their e...