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Reflections: Teaching Literacy
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| Anonymous | What it means to be a literacy teacher (someday!) | 1 | Nov 24 2008, 8:51 PM EST by MaryPLWPTL | ||
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As I go day by day from class to class and I begin to question why I am here doing this right now, it always comes back to one idea: I'm working toward a goal to better myself by bettering the lives of others. I want to be a teacher and I want my students to learn all that all the time I spent was in turn for them. I want my students to realize their potential through my actions. For example, my English 100 workshop students all wrote a list on the first day of class of the sacrifices they are making by being in college. But with these sacrifices they then wrote all the positives that will come from them. I seem to do this constantly to be able to see that there is that old cliché: light at the end of the tunnel. I want all of my students in the future to be able to do that same thing; to be able to find the good from the bad, see the positives in something negative. I want all of my students to know that reading is worth it and that writing is worth it too. That English will improve their lives. That will always be my ultimate goal: to have my students appreciate their knowledge of English. I’m hoping then they will realize that Disney was right: “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”
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| Anonymous | students and quotes | 1 | Nov 24 2008, 8:40 PM EST by MaryPLWPTL | ||
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I hope my students will learn to appreciate some form of literature or at least be able to communicate effectively and know what they need to in order to succeed in their lives. James McCosh's quote, "The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think," really encompasses my entire view of reading. The material that gives you the answers and allows you to continue being a drone (mostly due to the human race's tendency towards laziness) is not the one which will help you the most or be the most interesting. It is the text (or movie, or song, or anything) that makes you pause and really consider something is what you should be reading. The text isn't always the same for every person, but for every person there is a text that will do this. It is only with this push or tickle in our brains that makes us explore and ponder which makes Grace Slick's quote, "Through literacy you can begin to see the universe," correct.
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| Studer | Words and Inspiration | 0 | Sep 13 2008, 11:06 PM EDT by Studer | ||
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Words that inspire me and my teaching of literacy are, "Mrs. Studer, I don't understand." With those words I see the challenge that is paved ahead of me and the potential just waiting to be set free. Thoughts race through my mind like "I can't wait to work with that reader or writer and expose them to the strategies to understand." What really gets to me is when they finally say, "I got it." Then I know that the reader/writer will be able to use those skills to any piece of text that is in front of them, but they will remember that we did that in Mrs. Studer's class or I remember Mrs. Studer modeling that for me. My students words inspire me daily-wanting to learn and achieve more. I see them not only as my students, but like my own children sitting in front of me.
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