This assignment helped me see my growth as a writer in such a short period of time.\u00a0 Although I have only posted four blogs, each blog has helped me identify difficulties and advances in my writing.\u00a0\u00a0 In my blogs I specifically discuss issues that I have struggled with in reading and writing about Literature.\u00a0 I then highlight and note areas in our reading assignments and class discussions that help me realize why I struggled in a specific area of literature, reading, or writing.\u00a0 This combined practice helps me note the problem areas my future students may face, and as a result helps me devise plans to help make it easier for those students struggling in reading or writing.\u00a0 Coming from a bicultural and bilingual background where English was hardly spoken at home, and the literature discussed at home was Persian Literature, I can understand the difficulties students with different backgrounds can face when reading and writing about American Literature. So the weekly blogs have helped me identify reasons for these difficulties I faced in reading and writing, and use this knowledge in my future teaching experience.
\nRecurring themes that I noticed in my blogs were issues pertaining to understanding poetry, and a teacher\u2019s ability and art to teach writing and reading. I have brought examples from my high school and undergraduate teachers who impacted my writing and literary skills.\u00a0 But, I have also realized that the nature of my posts has changed after the four weeks.\u00a0 Now, I tend to write less about my previous writing experiences, and focus more on writing about the text and how I will be using what I learn from here on in my future teaching.\u00a0 For example in my last week\u2019s post I show more comparison of Blau\u2019s work and our class discussion, as opposed to my own experiences.\u00a0 Although I still continue to write about my experiences as it helps me put the subject matter into perspective, but I have been able to focus more on the text and class discussions in my writings.
\nCertain subjects encouraged me to write more than others, especially when I was able to compare and contrast my own experiences to those in the text.\u00a0 For example during the week we read the visible knowledge project, I was able to write more than the other posts because I was able to see more practical methods of teachings rather than theoretical methods.\u00a0 Whereas in my third post \u201cAuthor vs. Reader\u201d I did not write much on Crossman\u2019s article because I felt it was dealing more with theory, and I was not able to respond as effective.\u00a0 Instead I paid more attention to the Think Aloud project in my post.\u00a0 Although I do agree that theory and practice must work together to provide productive results in teachings, but I realized that for me writing on practice is much easier than writing about theories.
\nFor my future blogs I will try to focus on the texts we are assigned to read and find practical methods to connect the text with our class discussions.\u00a0 I will also continue learning from the teaching methods my classmates mention in their blogs. I have tried to read the blogs of my classmates before writing my own, so that I can compare my experience with others.\u00a0 Relating the experiences of others gives me new perspectives in my writing.\u00a0 In general I find the blogging experience to be very helpful, and I will definitely return to my discussions in the future.\u00a0 I will especially return to the posts pertaining to practical teaching methods and techniques.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This assignment helped me see my growth as a writer in such a short period of time.\u00a0 Although I have only posted four blogs, each blog has helped me identify difficulties and advances in my writing.\u00a0\u00a0 In my blogs I specifically discuss issues that I have struggled with in reading and writing about Literature.\u00a0 I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}