Abstract
This article shares an innovative learning assignment that pre-service teacher candidates completed to support early childhood students in the area of emergent literacy. To learn the many values of home-school literacy bags, teacher candidates enrolled in a university teacher preparation course designed homemade literacy bags and brought them into their preschool field classrooms and distributed them to the preschoolers’ families. The author shares the rationale behind the assignment, the processes and strategies the students used to create the home-school literacy bags, the results of the parent satisfaction survey that was collected, and the pre-service teacher candidates’ reactions and reflections of the learning assignment.
Highlights
IntroductionI find this work challenging and I enjoy teaching university teacher candidates as they prepare to be primary grade teachers
For the past eighteen years I have served as an education professor in the Department of Early and Middle Grades Education at a large university in the northeast area of the US
This article shares data from a small sample of parents who completed the parent satisfaction survey sheet and the teacher candidates’ reflections and new guiding questions that were brainstormed after completing this course assignment. 2.2 The Benefits of Literacy Bags in the Early Childhood Classroom Literacy bags have been a staple in many early childhood classrooms for an assortment of reasons
Summary
I find this work challenging and I enjoy teaching university teacher candidates as they prepare to be primary grade teachers. I have taught the Pre-Kindergarten Methods & Field course for the past eight years. It is a six-credit, field-based course in which university teacher candidates spend upwards of sixty-six hours throughout the semester working directly with preschool aged children. They attend a weekly university class focused on learning how to plan and implement developmentally effective curriculum for three-to-five-years-olds. Aside from teaching the ages and stages of child development and the importance of viewing children www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/jecs
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