I found reading Chapter 1 very interesting. It is very true that personality, background, tastes, attitudes, experiences, and what we learn as a student of teaching are factors that determine how we go about teaching. The key structures of teaching: reading-as-thinking, representing-to-learn, small group activities, classroom workshop, authentic experiences, reflective assessment, and interactive units are strategies that teachers use everyday and play a key role in being an effective teacher. There is a lot of diversity in the classroom and many different learning styles that need to be addressed and acknowledged. Technology is an important asset in the classroom. Students learn by using and/or applying technology; this is very true. Teachers need to want to learn up to date technology so we want lose the students.
I found it very interesting reading about the different strategies of teaching reading. I agree that you have to capture a child's interest of reading through their interests and helping them to make connections. As a teacher, I enjoy using the senses to help students to comprehend what they are reading. The KWL charts, bubble maps, and the Venn Diagram are thinking maps that I used effectively in the classroom. I enjoyed reading about the strategies in Chapters 1 and 2. Some I have used and others I will certainly try.
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Marianna, I really like what you said and it is so true that the diversity in the classroom leads a teachers way of instruction. We as educators have to take our students and help them reach new levels what ever that may be. The reading ideas do work and I have used alot of them with my kindergartenn students. They work when a teacher has many diverse students like we all do.
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