Upon completing the end of semester sheet about our blogs, and writers notebooks, I thought further about the assignments that I completed, and sometimes didn't complete on time, for this class. I think that it is very beneficial to have us the teachers, complete and interact in different ways of writing that we would like to have our students do. Even though at times it was like pulling teeth for me to sit down with my journal and write two entries, I was able to make it through and near the end come up with ideas much quicker than I did at the begining of the semester. I enjoyed completeing the in class activities and interacting because this kept my interest and allowed for us not to just read about different methods of teaching lessons, but actually hands on complete and discuss these items as well.
There are so many wonderful strategies that I have learned through this course that I don't even knw where to start. I hope that I can use all of these in my future classrooms and my greatest fear is that I will not remember all of these strategies. Then again, when we watched the video two weeks ago about the current generation, the statistic that struck me the most was the one about how the information we learn in college will be outdated by the time we are out. Although I don't think that this completely applies becuase I hope to be teaching in a year and a half, it will be such a challenge to keep up to date on the latest teaching strategies and technologies once I am set in a way of doing something.
The only frustrating times that i had during this semester we when learning new and exciting material in 339, we would end up relearning the same strategies in 340. This does show that the methods that were discussed twice were exceptionally important however I think that a great idea for future semesters of this course would be to have the same teacher for 339 and 340. This would allow for maximum teaching time and not a recap of strategies that were already learned in 339 being taught in 340.
I completely agree with the idea of having the same teacher for 339 and 340. I think that a lot of the things we learned in reading and writing would work even better together, by seperating the classes it seperates Reading and Writing which both go hand in hand.
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