Well, I'm changing that. I want to use the inspiration from my fellow classmates to make me into a better teacher. And who knows, maybe along the way, I can help them too!
"Everybody has the right to his or her own thoughts. Most will probably different than mine but needless to say we all have thoughts. All thoughts are valid in our own head but it’s communicating them that get tricky. When other people share there opinions that are different than mine most times I shut down. If someone said they really hated The Walking Dead than I probably wouldn’t talk about it with them anymore. I would stop communicating my thoughts. That is what I want to put an end to in my classroom: non-communication of thoughts."
I loved how she put this! In school, children are supposed to be learning how to express themselves through writing as well as discussions. When there is a culture in a classroom in which students do not feel safe voicing their opinions, it stifles conversations that could enhance understanding. So I'm with you Teaching on Canvas. I want a classroom where communication is encouraged too!
"As our students become more technologically savvy, their reliance upon those things becomes greater. So, our experience with such devices needs to evolve as well. We need to get used to what our students will be bringing into our classrooms, as well as what they use in their everyday lives. This will help us connect with them better, and will allow us to use technology as a tool to increase our students content literacy within our classroom."
One of my favorite topics in education is technology. Part of that is because of my own dependence on technology, and another part is because I am fascinated by the use of technology in the classroom and the many ways people approach that. I am actually attending a large math teachers conference next week and am going to make sure that I hit up a lot of sessions on this very subject! Technology is such a huge part of our culture, so why not bring it into the culture of our classroom?
"I realized that it is our job as teachers to make the importance of reading known to our students."
So. Incredibly. True. This is one of the biggest lessons that I feel that I've learned during this semester studying content literacy. Students need to see a point to reading and know why they are doing it! I hate hearing people say that they hate reading, so I want to work against that attitude in my classroom.
"We should test each student when they come into our class for content literacy knowledge through reading and writing. Based off of this we will know how to individually help them."
I love that this person is clearly concerned with the individual students and not just the class as a whole. Each student that we encounter is growing and learning in different ways. That makes my job as a teacher exciting but also difficult. And challenging. But I don't back away from challenges and I don't plan on backing away from this one. I want to help my students to learn and grow in the way that they do it best! If that means more work for me, so be it.
"My mother also told me each week she would pick a hard word from the dictionary to incorporate into her lessons all week. She wouldn’t tell the students she would just make sure she would use it more then 3 times a day every day. She said sometimes they would ask other times they would figure it out and before long they were repeating these words back to her in conversation without needing support… (it was at this point that I realized my mother also did this with her own children… felt like such a Guinea pig)."
This post made me laugh out loud! A mother daughter team who are both teachers. Each of them learning from each other. And I loved what the mom used to do both in and out of her classroom! Introducing a new and challenging word with out announcing it. Then, just use it throughout the day. I am very tempted to use this in my future classroom.
Well, there's a little bit of insight into my classmates' minds! Now go check out their blogs for yourselves!
"Content Literacy - the ability of someone to interact with and use strategies to interpret the content of some subject (in its own language) including being able to speak, listen to, read, and write in that language"
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