jaimie k's reflection to taberski fore, ack, intro...

By just reading the foreword of this book, I feel that learning to teach reading is going to be difficult. You can never realize the amount of work it takes to do something until someone actually tells you, shows you, or you experience it for yourself.

When some think of teaching reading, they might think, you just teach the students words, sounds, and how to say them. But that is so far from the truth. In the fifth paragraph of the foreword, Sharon writes about all the different things a teacher needs to know how to do in order to do a good job of teaching reading. I felt a heavy weight on my shoulders as I read them. It seems that there is so much to do for just this one subject.

Every time I learn how to teach a new subject, I feel overwhelmed. There is so much to focus on, so much to do for every subject. Each part of the curriculum has their own necessities that need to be focused on so that the students receive the best instruction and gain the most from it. Maybe it’s because it’s only my second semester in the College of Education, but right now, it seems like all of this is impossible. Impossible to do all of this when it seems there’s not enough time in the school day and there are so many standards that are required to be covered.