What I've Learned

Throughout this week I have learned a lot of new things regarding becoming a literacy teacher. I thought I knew a lot of what it took to be a teacher like using multiple learning strategies, having good organizational skills, and having a wide variety of books in the classroom, but there were many things that I needed to learn. I want to learn how to pick a good variety of books to use for examples as well as how to determine students' reading levels. These two things I think are the most important for new teachers to know. Having a wide variety of books to use as examples is great because then each student can relate and find something that they find interesting. Determining a student's reading level is also very important. In order for students to achieve the most out of their school year, they need to be at their zone of proximal development and trying to find that is somewhat difficult. I hope that by the end of this course, I will be able to know the answers to these questions as well as others that may come up. The videos were also helpful because they talked about including more technology into the classroom and ways to do this. Overall, I am excited to learn more as this course progresses.