What Happens to Students? What Do Teachers Feel? What Else Needs to Be Done? What Is the Connection to AI Use, and Why Is It Important to Know How to Rewrite?
A pedagogical model for developing literacy that will help teachers reach their students
What types of works will we choose? What questions will we ask? How will we integrate writing? What tasks will we prioritize? How does this model fit the unique place where students are in middle school?
What journey do students go through when they approach writing?
How can language help students tell their own life story to themselves? How can literature help students cope with challenges in their lives?
How does the hero’s journey help students read and write?
How can identification help adolescents and their teachers? How do we facilitate a discussion around heroes' journeys? What in the hero's journey can promote literacy, and why?
The Middle School Roller Coaster and How Does It Affect Literacy?
How do the transition to middle school, the physical changes of adolescence, and the cognitive and emotional changes affect students and their readiness for reading and writing? What kind of materials do we need to make accessible to them in order to engage with their emotional turbulence?
Why is literacy falling through the cracks?
What changes in the transition from elementary school to middle school, and how does this change affect the students? Is the problem only Israeli? What is the main difficulty for the students?
Insights from Collaborative Work with Teachers
How do teamwork and the creation of a shared school language around the issue of poverty help teachers cope? How does the way we relate to educators affect their ability to assist students facing poverty? What is the importance of processes that emerge from academia-to-field collaboration?
How does awareness influence practice?
How can identifying injustice lead to real change in classrooms? How do we develop critical consciousness through genuine recognition of the mediating role of classroom educators?
How are students from poverty treated?
How does the fact that a student comes from a family of lower socioeconomic status affect the treatment from the teacher, the system's expectations, and the education he or she will receive? What is the role of the education system in the diverse world from which students come?
What is poverty awareness?
What happens to us, and what do we think when we meet men and women facing poverty? Do we feel different from them? Do we judge them for their situation? Or do we believe that they are trying to change the reality of their lives, but without success so far?
