The why we are assigned to read Subjects Matters and then pick a book out of 3 choices (in my case "Teacher Man") is only done to help us become better teachers. Through Subjects matters we can create a more meaningful teaching style, because it there points out that relying on books is not it, variation is important so that students keep focused while class session is carried on.
This book also gives plenty of examples on how we can help students learn efficiently through comprehension of reading, and also how teachers can assess whether students understood the material or not. This can be done through methods mentioned such as double entry journals, KWL, exit slips and admit slips, and much more. This way we can create a more in depth unit plan and eventually improve our teaching style that can meet everyone's needs.
Through Teacher's Man, we can see that teaching is not an easy job, fights may happen in one's classroom at some point in our teaching career. We are limited to teach, we are expected to follow the curriculum or else we get in trouble. It sorts of gives you advices through his stories because it makes us understand that teachers and students should be a team to back each other up when facing problems with parents or the principal. These two books and the articles posted on wiki are helping me expand my ideas regarding teaching and how to be become better at it.
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Don't you think that in your Methods class you would learn how to be a better teacher, learn how to specifically teach your subject area and incorporate literacy strategies in order to help students become more literate?
Perhaps it is because I am an English Literature major that our Methods course and Grammars of English course have already helped us learn how to incorporate reading and writing activities in to our lesson plans and methods of teaching.
I'm glad that this course is helping you learn to be a better teacher and that the books are really insightful for you. What would you say to someone in my shoes though? Where literacy is already incorporated in our lesson plans and curriculum because I am an English Literature major/teacher and I cannot teach literature without having students read, write, talk, listen, and view films.
I understand how this class would be necessary for other majors, but I do not know why this course is required for English majors when we are already so involved with the teaching students to read and write. As English majors we are taught how to teach students to be better readers and writers.
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