Lehua's reflection - ch. 2
Hey all! Just a note...I am under Chelsea's account for now because I'm having a problem setting up my "new" account. There's no difference really, other than her name at the bottom of the post. (Thanks, Chels.)
So about Chapter 2:
I find it so encouraging but yet scary to read about inspiring teachers like Mrs. Shapiro - encouraging because they are so rewarded by what they do to give their students the extra "edge" in learning, but scary because I hope that I can mold myself to the students abilities to do things like "teaching them to fish." I know that every teacher has their ways of doing things and even more importantly, they all learn when to do them on their own time. There isn't exactly a rush to having methods like these but I would like to see those students use terms like "She gave me the fish!" without feeling silly saying it.
Going back to the beginning of the chapter, I very much agree with her method of the checklist. Being a big checklist fan myself, setting goals as a teacher for your students is great! It's something that can become somewhat of an assessment for the students on how they did during each individual year, as well as one for the teacher, to see how she/he can improve.
It seems like a challenging task to encourage students to read - especially texts outside of their preferred genre. But I agree that when they get older, a sure way of exploring world events and learning more than is comfortable, is extremely important. To be honest, I didn't start reading the newspaper until I was about 18 years old. (other than things like the Longs ad.) I hope to encourage my students to read because, according to almost everyone that I've asked, they wish that they had more time to read. For me, it's not necessarily about the TIME, but it's about actually DOING IT. Hopefully this can change because according to Greg, a great teacher reads and writes. No matter if he is right or wrong, that is something that I'm continually trying to accomplish.
So about Chapter 2:
I find it so encouraging but yet scary to read about inspiring teachers like Mrs. Shapiro - encouraging because they are so rewarded by what they do to give their students the extra "edge" in learning, but scary because I hope that I can mold myself to the students abilities to do things like "teaching them to fish." I know that every teacher has their ways of doing things and even more importantly, they all learn when to do them on their own time. There isn't exactly a rush to having methods like these but I would like to see those students use terms like "She gave me the fish!" without feeling silly saying it.
Going back to the beginning of the chapter, I very much agree with her method of the checklist. Being a big checklist fan myself, setting goals as a teacher for your students is great! It's something that can become somewhat of an assessment for the students on how they did during each individual year, as well as one for the teacher, to see how she/he can improve.
It seems like a challenging task to encourage students to read - especially texts outside of their preferred genre. But I agree that when they get older, a sure way of exploring world events and learning more than is comfortable, is extremely important. To be honest, I didn't start reading the newspaper until I was about 18 years old. (other than things like the Longs ad.) I hope to encourage my students to read because, according to almost everyone that I've asked, they wish that they had more time to read. For me, it's not necessarily about the TIME, but it's about actually DOING IT. Hopefully this can change because according to Greg, a great teacher reads and writes. No matter if he is right or wrong, that is something that I'm continually trying to accomplish.
posted by Chelsea | 12:04 AM
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