Like most of the others on the blog I would like to see myself teaching in the type of school and community that I grew up in. I can't say that I grew up in a very culturally diverse area but I wouldn't mind teaching in one. I went to public schools and see myself teaching in a public school district rather than private. From this class I hope to learn how to work literacy into all subjects throughout the school day. I also want to learn about working specifically with gifted students and also ELL students and how to keep them together but also work with them separately in class. In my placement I have a wide range of diverse learners. My CT has divided the students into different groups based on their literacy levels. There are ELL students all the way to students who are at the top of the class in reading and writing skills. Instruction definitely needs to be altered for these diverse groups of learners. My CT tries to work specifically with the lowest reading group including the ELL students.
I really liked how the Langer article kind of set up a possible outline for a way to teach literature so that students are creating meaning of the literary pieces. I am in a kindergarten classroom for placement and I think even in this young of a grade it is important to establish some sort of way to introduce literature so that the students are engaged and creating their own meaning from the stories being read in class. One of the suggestions in the article was to have the students develop interpretations and to relate it to their personal experiences. When my CT reads a story to the class she will stop periodically and ask questions to have the students somehow relate to the story, which keeps the interested and has them thinking more in depth about the story.
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