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Goals for my learning in TE 402:
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Learn multiple ways to incorporate technology
into the classroom
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Learn classroom management techniques
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Learn time management skills in lesson planning
and class preparation
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Learn strategies to help low English proficiency
students and ESL students succeed in the classroom
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Learn how to engage parents and/or guardians
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School and community context:
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Suburban school district located close to my
hometown of Farmington Hills, Michigan
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Literacy instruction:
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I want to learn different ways to teach literacy
that engages all types of student learners (naturalist, musical, mathematical,
existential, interpersonal, etc.)
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I want to learn different literacy
strategies/activities that are student interest based and that reflect
real-life scenarios
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I want to learn how to integrate multiple
subject areas into literacy
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I want to learn how to incorporate “hands-on”
learning in literacy
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Jigsaw articles:
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Hettinger & Knapp (2001) Supporting Underachieving Readers
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I want to model that I love to read, that
reading is fun, and that reading can be beneficial to you in many ways
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I want to read with them during silent reading
time, talk about my favorite books, and read aloud to my students
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I want to encourage parents to read to their
children instead of always having their children read to them
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I want to encourage my students to join book
clubs
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I want to bring in older students to read to the
younger students
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I want to have books at all different levels of
reading for students to pick from
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I want to have comic books, graphic novels,
picture books, and other special high-interest books to tempt underachieving
readers
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I want to have books by student authors
(students may enjoy reading something their classmate wrote and their classmate
may enjoy seeing their own published work)
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I want to allow partner reading
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Risko & Walker-Dalhouse (2007) Cultural Modeling
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I want to talk with my students and their
families to try and connect texts that incorporate their values, beliefs and
interests
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I want to listen to my students and analyze their
writing to help build on existing strategies
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I want to select and use texts that are relevant
to my students’ experiences and that require interpretative reasoning
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I want to analyze what my students know and
their out-of-school experiences are like
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