In\u00a0 reviewing my previous blogs, I found three areas of repeated\u00a0discussion. (As well as typos and thoughts\/comments that could have been expanded on).<\/p>\n
In three blogs I mentioned how I\u00a0incorporated a method, learned from our readings,\u00a0to strenghten my ability as a reader.\u00a0\u00a0Even though I love reading, and consider myself an intermmediate reader,\u00a0there\u00a0has been many instances where I didn’t fully understand the\u00a0meaning of certain passages or poems. I thought it was just me, and\u00a0not something that is\u00a0a common occurrence with\u00a0students.\u00a0\u00a0I’ve learned how I can expand my narrow, mostly literal, tunnel of thinking.\u00a0 It started with\u00a0accepting the difficulty\u00a0and working through it instead of avoiding it.\u00a0 The second step was to use annotations on the second read- through.\u00a0 The third step\u00a0was to make connections to either the “sketches,”\u00a0other texts, or my cultural\u00a0knowledge. I may have been already doing a bit of\u00a0that on a superficial level, but now that\u00a0I’m more aware, and therefore more\u00a0focused, my reading process has been “fine tuned.”<\/p>\n
I’ve also flipped-flopped between the roles of teacher and parent.\u00a0 As a future teacher, I can envision my classroom environment as being more collaborative, and I know how I want to guide\u00a0the students learning (to a degree), but as a parent I only have limited control over how my children, especially my son, is taught.\u00a0 So, I put this out there, in part,\u00a0because of my worry and because I thought that one teacher might have the ability\/desire\/courage to guide another teacher that either struggles or is uncomfortable with the\u00a0labeled students. But I\u00a0don’t know how realistic this possibilty is. (I did appreciate Ginny’s honesty in her one blog where she described that ADHD filled environment she taught in).<\/p>\n
The last area covers attempts to discuss critical analysis\/theory\/concepts that are foreign to me.\u00a0 Combined with the fact that I’m not currently teaching leaves me feeling that either my blogs are rather shallow compared to others or that I’m asking questions out loud because I don’t really have a feeling one way or the other yet. Much of our topics \u00a0has been new to me and that’s when I have to remind myself that this is the reason for my being here.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
I have received a few valuable\u00a0comments that have provided professional\u00a0insight or\u00a0food for thought; thank you.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Susan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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