Carrie Adrahtas:
When I found out that our last TE course focuses on four main subjects, I had always hoped that I would cover literacy first. I believe that literacy is a major foundation in which learning can be based on and other subjects can be built on. Throughout the years, I have begun to develop my teaching philosophy. While taking this course, my goal is to expand my teaching philosophy, including more points about helping second language learners and teaching with technology. Additionally, in this course I hope to learn how to teach literacy to a diverse number of abilities. Not every student learns alike, and I hope to learn many different strategies in which I can teach literacy to multiple students of different abilities. Also, as our internship year is fast approaching, I hope to figure out what kind of learning community that I want to develop in my classroom. If I think about that now, I can try to apply it to some of my field work this year and next. In my field work, I’m sure I will see a diverse number of learners, and I want to learn how to meet all of their individual needs. Furthermore, since technology is becoming advanced and very important in the classroom, I hope to learn in this class ways in which I can incorporate technology into my literacy lessons. I hope to learn about different technology programs, such as wiki, blogs, Google calendars, and others. Before I can incorporate technology into my classroom, I need to be familiar and know how to use the programs. Also, in this class I hope to start to develop my pedagogy, especially while I am in my field placement classroom. In order to develop my pedagogy, I will need to develop knowledge of curriculum, planning, and assessment. To be honest, I have never really been taught how to write a lesson plan. So, my main goal in this class is to learn and even be modeled how to write a lesson plan. In all my previous teaching classes here at MSU, not one of them has explained how to write a lesson plan! Also, I hope to be familiar with the English language arts State and National Curriculum Frameworks. These frameworks are the foundation for teaching, and I believe that they are very important to know. Lastly, I hope to engage in ongoing self assessment in this class. I believe it is very important for me to understand myself as a learner before I can become a good teacher. I want to better understand my past experiences so that I can determine whether or not they would benefit students in my classroom. Overall, I am looking forward to learning a lot in this class in which I can apply in my future classrooms. The field experience will only benefit me and provide first hand experience of being in a classroom. I am looking forward to this semester and can not believe this is my last teaching class before I graduate!
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I am glad you are so enthusiastic about literacy. You have some very good goals, and you will definitely make strides towards achieving these goals. We will be talking about developing lesson plans, and I will model how I develop lesson plans. I hope you are able to use your field placement and this class to meet many of your goals.
Carrie,
Just like you said when you responded to my post, I felt like we had so much in common! Since you already commented on that in your response I thought I would reply about some of the things you said in your post that I found very interesting and wished I would of touched on. I also hope to learn more about technology, but did not think of that as literacy at first. However, programs such as wiki, blogs and online calendars all involve literacy. I hope to include these technologies in my classroom, but need to learn more about them. Until this class I have never used a blog. I do not even know what a wiki is, but I have heard the term before. Is it similar to Wikipedia? I also did not write anything about the State Standards and National Curriculum Framework. When I looked over the participation log, I realized these are something I need to learn more about. By understanding these set standards it will help me develop literacy plans for the school year when I am a teacher. I am very excited for this class and hope we are able to accomplish our goals of developing strategies for teaching literacy and writing lesson plans. =)
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