I have learned various strategies through examples set forth in Gallagher's Readicide, as well as the different strategies shared in class and through my own personal research with the inquiry paper. This class has helped me formulate my own philosophy of teaching even further by allowing me to generate specific examples of literacy development across my teaching internship. It has helped me see what strategies work and don't work with today's hyperextended learner. The technology literacy engagements seem to be the way of future education strategies to engage learners in a more comprehensive understanding of being technologically literate. However, that is not meant to leave traditional literacy methods in the dust, but will challenge us as educators to create new ways to stimulate our ADD students into taking the time to use their own literacy skills.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
#7 Final Reflection
Although this semester has seemed to have flown by, the lessons I've learned in "The Teaching of Reading" will surely stick between my ears. Through the literacy engagements I've practiced on my students I have gained a deeper understanding of how to metacognitively assess literacy content in the classroom. How my students read, how they disassemble complex political information, and how they reconstruct that information into their own prose are essential understandings gained from this course that I'll carry with me to my own teaching experiences in the future.
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Great description of how students are hyperextended and ADD. I agree, and I think it'll be one of our generations challenge to not only recognize that these students need more than a tradition teaching philosophy gives them, but to meet their needs. One way this class has helped develop my teaching philosophy is that I now believe that reading will open students' minds and passion for learning. The challenge I saw during my student teaching is to find the strategies to use to get students reading for those intrinsic rewards, rather than external ones.
ReplyDeleteI like how you disected how your students read and start to think like they do. I think literacy engagments are so important in the fact that we have to find new and creative ways to engage our students. Reading from a textbook no longer works. Students need something different to engage their minds.
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