Funds of Knowledge can be:

Knowledge Base: This is the knowledge that students are bringing with them to school from outside learning or backgrown knowledge.
Skills Set: These stills may be those learned from a parent or other adult, either at school, home, or in the community.
Experiences: These experiences come mainly from outside the school setting. This could include family trips or even field trips when the
learner engaged in an activity that promoted learning.
Household labor histories: Students may learn about different subjects through the memebrs of their household who may work or have
worked in a specific field that relates to an academic area for the elarner.
Social Networks: There can be the people that a learner knows that influence their life and learning. They offer support to the learner .

Interactions that shape my teaching strategies:

Clinical Placement Observations
During my clinical observation, the 5th grade
students were learning about The First
Americans in Social Studies as well as writing
personal narratives and learning about plural
nouns.
Abigail Henry's Funds of
Knowledge
Through developing this Funds of Knowledge, as
a teacher I will pay important attention to how
students understand the world around them.
Then, I will use the knowledge already familiar to
students to teach them new concepts.
The interactions I had with my cooperating teacher are
some of themost important I've experiences so farduring
my education. I feel that Mrs. Sacquitne has great
classroom management. She sets expectations for her
students at the beginning of the year and those
expectations are carried through the year. I love that she
has students grab a novel to read whenever they are
finished with an assignment or have down time. This
really is important becuase it gives students more
opportunity for self growth, even when they don't realize
they are learning and growing

Dr. Wysocki's Strategies Published Research

While I didn't have the opportunity to use the Rucker (2019) suggests a self-audit for the teacher to identify
activities outlined by Dr. Wysocki to investigate where there may be bias and using that knowledge to then
Funds of Knowledge, the list provided really gave Funds of Knowledge Self- create curriculum and lesson plans for their students.
me a broad understanding of how to go about Investigation Maynard (2020) reccommends diversifying your personal
elarning about the students in my classroom as classroom library to include books from as many cultures as
I learned through my own Funds of
well as their families and communities. While possible. He then goes on to suggest that these cultural texts
KNowledge Self-Investigation that there
many of these activities could be done one-on- be used as read alounds in the classroom so that all students
is more to me that I though previously. I
one with student, thay can also be used in a group are exposed to the culture and diversity. Using these texts in
can use this new understanding of myself
setting to allow not only myself but the whole other subjects, besides reading, can also allow students the
to help my learners create their own
class to learn about other students and their opportunity to see themsleves in literature. It is important to
deeper understanding about themselves,
culture. I will be hanging on to this document to allow students to discuss these cultural and diverse texts so
their culture, and their background.
use in my future classroom. they may ask questions to gain understanding and make
connections to their own lives.