Tuesday, September 18, 2007
not so fond memories
its a shame that only one method of trying to teach and get me to like reading was used. most of my pre elem. and elem. level reading was jammed down my throat that consisted mostly of material i found to be very boring and disconnected from. assigned novels in middle and high school that are considered to be amerian classics, super, but when i was 10/11 years old i wanted to read action and something that wasnt written 100+ years ago but maybe that was just me being immature, i dont know. i can prob. consider myself fortunate because to this day i am not turned off to reading at all as i know alot of people are. i do like to read and if i had to guess i prob read 1.5 hrs a day.
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hey i must say that i have a had a terrible experience learning how to read esspecially in the first grade. i had this one teacher in which i will never forget her name or where she came from. her name was ms martin from ontario canada. this women was a tyrant when she taught phonics to my class. i come from a hispanic speaking family and i learned spanish before english and it was very difficult for me to grasp how to properly read english. so this beast would literally grab me and slam me to the floor at public school 8 in paterson. this made me hate teachers, school, and my mom for a bit because when i would tell my mom that my teacher hits me my mom thought i was lying to her and would return a beating for me telling her that. it took a real quick time for me to learn how to read because i was tired of being hit but growing up in the middle and high school i just hated reading and english and some teachers, its funny that i am now trying to be one, but not like a subject teacher just phys ed. but i can def understand what kind of trials and tribulations one would have if they dont have the right influential teacher to guide them.
You're both right on -- what you learn and how you learn it make all the difference. If you hate the materials or you hate the teacher, or both, your success is likely to be very low. This feeds into the social aspects we were talking about in class, as well as the affective piece.
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