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This is video number four in our series
Happy Spring Break
Roxanna
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About Me
- Roxanna Brooks
- Strong, sensitive, nurturing and caring all describe this graduate student and single mother of three Roxanna Brooks. Currently, I am a candidate in the Masters program at Coppin State University in pursuit of my Masters of Arts in Teaching degree. Obtaining my degree in teaching will fulfill a desire I have had of becoming a teacher since I was in elementary School. One of my favorite elementary school teachers was my second grade teacher Miss Margaret Thornton. Miss Thornton was an excellent teacher who made it her personal mission that each one of her students was able to read above their current grade level and with comprehension after leaving her class. Miss Thornton is the type of teacher that I have always wanted to become because she went above and beyond her duties to ensure that her students were successful. It is my hope that this class experience will equip me with the tools and resources so that I too will be able to exhibit those same standards of excellent in my classroom.
I think that thinking is certainly linked to engagement, which is certainly married to motivation! Positive relationships are certainly part of this equation. In what ways can we foster independent learning through prior knowledge? How can we trick them into connecting with canonic literature?
ReplyDeleteI love listening to your blogs! I think independent learning through prior knowledge will only happen when students are encouraged, allowed, and given the time to think for themselves.
ReplyDeleteI think that for too long the educational system has focused on teaching rather than relating. I think that listening to your blog, we have to changed this ideation and encourage our students to think, challenge, and formulate their own approach to ideas allowing them to be independent learners and thinkers.
ReplyDeleteAs I have stated before we must find a way to make the learner understand the need for literacy instruction. Again from my piont of view we must still address the deficienties of those students who are in the secondary school system and can not meet the rigorous requirments of in-depth reading and writing; tthis is the reality. I find your views interesting.
ReplyDeleteI think the positive relationships you talked about are key to a students education. The hard part is finding that positive angle for all students and applying it to make them more literate.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with you that students will only seek or put forth the minimum effort to pass and the situation of passiveness when it comes to students learning. But teachers and educators can support students' learning by infusing the strategies and ideas of part 3. Its a human right but most importantly we need literacy to survive and obtain jobs and an income. Its a process that is gradual but can be very supportive of students becoming independence life long learners as teachers reduce their role and let students share and reflect learning experiences.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed you response to your assigned chapters I feel that students will not become engaged in any activites unless they are fully interested in what is the topic at that given moment.
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