Sunday, January 16, 2011
First post
I have several goals for my learning in this course. First, I would really like to learn how to make reading more aesthetically pleasing for my students so that they are more likely to become life-long readers. Also, I would like to learn how to effectively teach literacy to minority students and poverty level students because I plan to work in inner-city schools. I know that these students struggle with academics, especially literacy. Like I said, I want to teach in a lower socioeconomic school and community. I hope this course can help me prepare for the social and emotional concerns that my students will face on a daily basis. It is not fair that students attending hard to staff schools have vastly unequal opportunities to develop literacy and other academic skills. Obviously, having less resources is a disadvantage for these children, however, this should not keep them from obtaining a high level of education, so that they may break out of the cycle of poverty they were born into. Since literacy is the base of all academics, I want to learn how to effectively integrate literacy into all the other subject areas. I believe this is particularly important for inner city schools because they are struggling with literacy levels. I also want to learn how to effectively teach all my students in the same classroom. By this I mean I want to be able to effectively teach my gifted students, my average students, my English Language Learning students, and my special ed students. I am looking forward to learning a lot of useful information this semester!
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Lauren, I couldn't agree more with your post and the objectives you hope to achieve during this class. It is unfortunate that everything you stated about low income/poverty schools is true, and I also hope to make a difference and learn how to better teach literacy to all of my students. Literacy is the foundation for all other subjects and its vital for us a teachers to be able to make literacy fun and easy for students in order to make learning other subjects more enjoyable.
ReplyDeleteI have very similar goals as you two do, and from the readings. When reading and hearing about how some teachers in inner city schools do not care, have given up on the kids, and show the kids a lack of confidence in them, disgusts me. As a teacher, I want to make learning fun for them, bring in resources from outside the class, and inspire them to learn more and demand more. Within the readings they spoke of students in inner city schools not having the materials they need to prepare them. That is where Technology comes in! There are so many things we can bring in with simply our laptops. TEachers need to make more of an effort and take advantage of what they do have. I hope this class teaches me how to do just that!
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