Week 4... Good Readers

Good readers are those who can read fluently, comprehend what they're reading, and know when they need to re-read. I feel I am a good reader because I do all these things.


Teaching students to be good readers is one of my fears as a future teacher. I know and understand why it is that reading is so important, but I  know that it will not be that simple to explain to those students who do  not like to do it, or may be a struggling reader. I hope to be the teacher who models good reading and writing habits, who shows her students that reading is essential to all, and who is the one teacher that instills the love of reading unto them, and that they carry that with them all through school.

Week 3... Games in School

I definitely will be using games in my class. Games are a fun, exciting, and not so ordinary way of teaching students skills such as patience, sharing, and team work. Everyone likes to have fun, and games are a great way to incorporate fun into school. Students like to think that when they are playing games they are not learning, but, in fact they are. To play games students must take turns, read instructions, count, sometimes add or subtract, they might have to learn songs (memory), or learn movements and dance. All this is learning. Learning skills that will help them not only in school, but in life.

Week 2... Motivation

Motivation is the drive one carries inside of them to complete a certain set of tasks to the best of their ability.

To me motivation is the drive to better my family - starting with me. I want my kids to know that alot of times it takes hard work to get good things, and once you've done the hard work the "things" you get as a result are far more worth it. I have a picture of our "dream house" on our "dream land" taped to my refrigerator door and when one of my kiddos asks me "when are we moving there?" I tell them that we still have a lot of hard work to do to get there.. mostly I do. I have to finish college and get a good job to help Dad pay for our dream.. and that once we get there we will be so much happier and it'll be so much more appreciated. And, so in the meantime, I will need their help.. when it comes to being quiet so I can study, or understanding that sometimes I can't go to their game because I have a late class.. or sometimes we have to eat BBQ three times a week because that's all Dad knows how to make. For the most part they understand and go along with it..and when that hectic semester is over they appreciate the times we get to spend together... which is how it will be all the time.. when we are in our dream home.

Week 1... Culture and Literacies

Culture and literacies are going to be a big part of life as a teacher... Students will not only have different learning methods and different skill levels, but they will have different backgrounds, family lives, friends, and extra curricular activies, they will have different knowledge about books, media, news, entertainment, technology .... each student will bring their "culture" into the classroom with them when they talk about the news, music, family event, or extra curricular activity that made some sort of impact in their live.


I don't think it will be an easy thing, but as a teacher, it has to be a top priority to learn the culture of the classroom and to try and teach so that the culture is enhanced by learning... does this make sense???