Week Two Reading and Notes

Learning Goals:

• I want to learn strategies to teach literacy in my classroom effectively
• I want to learn lesson ideas for teaching different literacy concepts
• My goal is to be able to identify different sentence types and also learn about the components of sentence structure
• I also want to learn about punctuation and grammar rules. I am not confident in the rules myself and would not feel comfortable teaching them to my students in the future. 
• To apply what I know and modify it for students with special needs. 

Notes:

• I hope to teach in a suburban public school. 
• I would either like to teach in a basic skills special education classroom or a gen ed class grades 2-4. 
• I want to learn what literacy instructional tools are meaningful and authentic. This would help me acheive my goals of learning about different literacy lessons I can use in my future classroom, and how to teach literacy effectively. 
• I want to learn how to asses students in literacy. 
• I would like to learn literacy instruction that is also helpful for students with learning disabilties. 
• I would like to know how to include ELL students in literacy instruction. 
• In the Hettinger and Knapp jigsaw reading I gained a low of knowledge on how I want to portray reading to my students. I dont want reading to be something they feel like they have to do or are required to know. I want my students to think of reading as a useful tool in order to get through life. I want them to learn that reading is not something you do just to be smart or something you do in the classroom, but it is something that is enjoyable and you can use it all day everyday. I learned that I want to show students that I enjoy reading and share with them my experiences in reading. This will help me to motivate them bby sharing my authentic story. I also want to be a good listener to my students. I want my students to be able to ask me questions and have an open relationship with me when talking about reading. 
• In the Risko and Walker jigsaw article I would be able to apply this to the teacher I want to be by ensuring that my studnets are aware of cultural differences and learn to be open and educated about cultures. I enjoyed how the article broke down how to prepare and teach cultural modeling with students. This would allow for easy lesson planning. It explained how it is important to think about what the problem is you want to teach, what skills you are interesting in teaching your students, understanding what your students already know, and collecting many materials with different perspectives for your students. As a teacher I what I really want to apply regarding other cultures is to provide many different perspectives. It is important for students to learn about bias and how there are many different sides to one story. I can apply this to my teaching style by providing materials to my students with different perspectives and encouraging my students to create their own opinion based on the facts that they learned.