A guide to integrating knowledge building into your classroom, with Jackie Relyea, Ph.D.
Meet Our Guest(s):
Jackie Relyea, Ph.D.
Jackie Eunjung Relyea, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Literacy Education in the College of Education at North Carolina State University. Her research centers on understanding the uniqueness of and variations in reading development, as well as developing and evaluating the efficacy of literacy instructional practices aimed at improving learning opportunities for multilingual students. Her work has been supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, the American Educational Research Association-National Science Foundation, and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. She currently serves as an Editorial Fellow for the Journal of Educational Psychology. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Meet our host, Susan Lambert
Susan Lambert is Chief Academic Officer, Literacy, at Amplify, and host of Science of Reading: The Podcast. Throughout her career, she has focused on creating high-quality learning environments using evidence-based practices. Lambert is a mom of four, a grandma of four, a world traveler, and a collector of stories.
As the host of Science of Reading: The Podcast, Lambert explores the increasing body of scientific research around how reading is best taught. As a former classroom teacher, administrator, and curriculum developer, Lambert is dedicated to turning theory into best practices that educators can put right to use in the classroom, and to showcasing national models of reading instruction excellence.
Transcripts and additional resources:
Quotes
“Literacy for my students meant more than just reading and writing; it was about access, access to the world, and access to knowledge and opportunities, and even independence—finding their voices.”
“You can think of a schema like … mental maps or the frameworks that help us store and organize new information and knowledge. The richer and the more detailed your schema about a particular topic, the easier it is to understand and remember new information about it.”
“Vocabulary oftentimes is the tip of the iceberg of the whole: the conceptual knowledge. It's not a simple definition of the single word; it's really conceptual knowledge and understanding that is represented by the word.”