After reading through the syllabus for TE 402, I would be lying if I said I wasn't a little bit overwhelmed. BUT, with that being said I think we are going to learn a lot of extremely useful and interesting information this semester so I am very excited! Since we are all planning to teach at the elementary level, it is imperative for us know not only what to teach in terms of literacy, but how to teach it. Literacy is a huge part of early education and can be easy integrated into other parts of the curriculum as well, which makes for a lot of teachers favorite subject areas. I am hoping throughout this course we learn a lot about how to effectively address topics of literacy in a way that makes it meaningful to both us and the students. I am also hoping to expand my own definition of literacy so that I am able to apply it in all areas of my teaching.
Something else the syllabus addressed that sounds intriguing to me is to learn how to make our teaching fit our learners needs by celebrating their differences rather than making some students conform to different learning styles. The survey activity we did in class brought to light the fact that each of us learn best in multiple different ways, so I am hoping throughout this course we learn how to adjust our teaching to cater to those differences.
I have to agree with your thoughts towards the syllabus. I too felt myself stressing out about what’s to come. Although after going through TE 401, I know if we keep up our good time management skills we will all be fine. You mentioned the skills we are going to learn to teach in regards to literacy, and I too feel excited about building on my knowledge from TE 301. I feel like that class loaded us with a ton of information, but now I’m ready to apply it first hand in my placement. I want to be more observant of how the components fit in the daily lessons in the classroom. I have to admit, I am a little biased towards this subject area since I have always been most intrigued by reading and writing in school. I agree with you, it is a great subject to integrate, and I am excited to explore all the different possibilities of incorporating it in other subjects.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the syllabus, I was most intrigued to discover that we have the opportunity to teach more than one literacy lesson in our placements. I am eager to gain more experience teaching as we finalize our preparations towards the internship year. It’s nice to finally be able to apply all of our skills as a visiting teacher in our placements as well as debrief our experience in our placements. The multiple intelligences survey was definitely an eye opener in class. I am also excited to learn how to integrate all the different learning style in my teaching. I realize that every student is different in his or her own unique way and I eager to explore how to adjust to the multiple intelligences.
To me, the syllabus and all that we are scheduled to do this semester is more then a little bit overwhelming. I am however, very excited after what we did last semester in TE 401 to continue learning about HOW to teach my students. The learning goals for this class particularly interest me because they both seem very attainable and helpful for the future. Like Christy, I am very excited that we have the opportunity to teach/engage in more then one literacy lesson in our field placement. This will be helpful both from an instruction stand point, but from the classroom management side of things as well.
ReplyDeleteI have never been much of a literacy person. Throughout school I have always been more interested in science and social studies. That being said, I think all of the things that we will do this semester will build on the knowledge that we attained in TE 301. I am looking forward to using this to hopefully be able to apply the literacy teaching methods to the multiply intelligences that we learned about in class.