The Four Lenses of Learning based upon the Penn Literacy Network

1. PLN
Lenses of Learning
Bristol Township School District
January 7, 2013

2. Do Now: Create a Title
Who else would you add? Why?
Be Ready to share.

3. What does a PLN class look
like?
Why should you care?

4. Why is reading important in
the content areas?
• If all teachers provide reading opportunities;
students will be better prepared to meet id.
standards.
• Background knowledge provides essential link
between what students understand and what
they read.

5. In combined reading and
writing instruction, students
are more engaged in a greater
society of experiences that
lead to better reasoning and
higher level thinking.

6. PLN Critical Experiences
in Literacy
• Transacting with Text
• Composing Texts
• Extending Reading and Writing
• Investigating Language
• Learning to Learn

7. Four Lenses of Learning
Meaning
Centered
Language
Social LEARNING
Based
Human

8. Lenses as a Metaphor
The lenses of learning provide a conceptual
framework for us to examine and improve
school and classroom practice in language
use across the curriculum. Seeing learning
from many perspectives.

9. Do Now:
1. Read through article and note your responses to
the underlined text.
1. Share with your partner.
1. Be ready to share in whole group.

10. Meaning Based Learning
• Learners need to connect new knowledge to prior
knowledge (Schema)
• We need to build relevance:
Personal Relevance
Academic Relevance
Motivation
Quality Instruction

11. Meaning Centered
Implications for Meaning Centered Instruction
• Establish Target and Goals Explicitly
• Upfront Summative (At the End) Assessment
that focuses on Formative (During) Assessment

12. Do Now:
1. Read through article and note your responses to
the underlined text.
1. Share with your partner.
1. Be ready to share in whole group.

13. Social Lens
Students need to:
Actively read & write to build knowledge
Opportunities to talk, question & reflect
Use language for their own purposes

14. Social Lens Considerations
Who is doing all the talking in your class?
Are students given the opportunity to share?
Are students allowed to refine their thinking?

15. Ticket Out to Break
Complete and Share with Table Mates
Keep for your Lessons/Resources
Break for 10

16. Welcome Back!
Sit with a new partner.

17. Language is Learning Based
Do Now:
With your new partner,
read and note the underlined text.
Be ready to discuss the following:
What is the role of language in learning?
What is the relationship between reading, writing and
talking?

18. “Read like writers” and “Write like
readers”
• Actively read and write to build knowledge
• Opportunities to talk, question and reflect
• Use language for their own purposes
• Reading, Writing, and Talking create better
processing opportunities which leads to better
learning

19. Take a minute…
What are your thoughts, reflections and
questions?
Share with your table mates…

20. Human Based Learning Lens
Do Now:
Read the article, attend to the underlined text
What are learning “styles” or ‘states”?
What is metacognitive awareness?
What is the relationship between ‘skill and “will”?

21. Implications for the Classroom
All students:
Have an opportunity to succeed every day
Are encouraged to take risks and participate safely
Are invited to engage and learn to the best of their
abilities (IEP Students)
All ideas are respected
Expect success
Incubation Time

22. Questions & Reflections
Ticket Out:
Did the presentation address all of the
Learning Lenses and How?
Complete the checklist