Saturday, January 12, 2013

Amanda Trinka- Book Club Blog Entry


·      Goals for my learning in TE 402:
o   Learn multiple ways to incorporate technology into the classroom
o   Learn classroom management techniques
o   Learn time management skills in lesson planning and class preparation
o   Learn strategies to help low English proficiency students and ESL students succeed in the classroom
o   Learn how to engage parents and/or guardians

·      School and community context:
o   Suburban school district located close to my hometown of Farmington Hills, Michigan

·      Literacy instruction:
o   I want to learn different ways to teach literacy that engages all types of student learners (naturalist, musical, mathematical, existential, interpersonal, etc.)
o   I want to learn different literacy strategies/activities that are student interest based and that reflect real-life scenarios
o   I want to learn how to integrate multiple subject areas into literacy
o   I want to learn how to incorporate “hands-on” learning in literacy

·      Jigsaw articles:
o   Hettinger & Knapp (2001) Supporting Underachieving Readers
§  I want to model that I love to read, that reading is fun, and that reading can be beneficial to you in many ways
§  I want to read with them during silent reading time, talk about my favorite books, and read aloud to my students
§  I want to encourage parents to read to their children instead of always having their children read to them
§  I want to encourage my students to join book clubs
§  I want to bring in older students to read to the younger students
§  I want to have books at all different levels of reading for students to pick from
§  I want to have comic books, graphic novels, picture books, and other special high-interest books to tempt underachieving readers
§  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)
§  I want to allow partner reading

o   Risko & Walker-Dalhouse (2007) Cultural Modeling
§  I want to talk with my students and their families to try and connect texts that incorporate their values, beliefs and interests
§  I want to listen to my students and analyze their writing to help build on existing strategies
§  I want to select and use texts that are relevant to my students’ experiences and that require interpretative reasoning
§  I want to analyze what my students know and their out-of-school experiences are like

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