At this point, I think it depends on what are your reading interests and how reading meets your interpretation skills to be understood or to get you involved on its field. I have always been a thinker, but throughout my coursework, I have sharpened my critical analysis skills and I like to read more books than I did before. First time that I started to read it was in my first grade. I was so excited at the time and I felt like a hero. My first teacher, Luljeta, was a big help to put me in the track.
In his essay, The "Banking" Concept of Education, Paulo Freire basically states that education is simply just a teacher who lectures all class period, filling the student's memory with information, and he or she merely accepts that the information is correct. Students are not to challenge the teacher; hypothetically, they are to follow the teacher blindly. Freire informs us of two completely different concepts of education. Throughout the essay, Freire questions the "banking" concept, but still provide equal and fair support for the concept. However, in the essay, he nearly proposes that the concept of "problem-posing" is the solution to satisfy both teacher and student.
The staff and children of my school would be furnished with a resource that could only help to inspire and enhance teaching and learning in literacy. I thought that everyone would be filled with enthusiasm. How wrong can one be? To understand the approaches I took to leadership in relation to this project, one has to first understand the dynamics and the culture which dominated the school at this time. Having been involved in several large-scale projects in the private sector before entering the teaching profession, I thought I was prepared for the challenges that this project would present.
It speaks in volumes to me. Anything I have read so far since starting college, if it states the title and author of a book, I am out there searching for it because I want to learn more. I don’t want it to just end with a textbook, an online lesson, or a webpage. I want the learning process to continue to pull me in. I have never felt so
Although high school students have history classes to learn about historical facts, learning it through literature gives students a new perspective on what has already been taught in a previous class. As said by Nancy Methelis, “The history books will give us facts, which we are told are true, but we know they are chosen for the particular text. It generally doesn’t connect in the same emotional way that a fictional work does” (Methelis). Reading Huck Finn gives students a greater understanding of how life was back when slavery was still accepted and common. Its historical accuracy makes it an essential book to be read and discussed in the classroom.
I leaned that sometimes speaking your mind no matter how intimidating can usually pay off in the long run. Writing an essay for my GED was not such a pleasant writing experience. I wrote my essay on my grandmother, and even though I felt it was passionate and detailed the instructor was looking for more. It seems, when writing for a grade, they were looking more for form, punctuation and proper grammar. Disappointed as I was I realized its not always the subject as much as it is your form and process that gets the grade I learned to pay more attention to my technique and process.
The best way to overcome this laziness is to motivate them selves. Reminding themselves of all the good that will come out of them completing college. I would never want to go to class, but I always reminded myself of how much easier my future is going to be once I get a degree. Self-discipline is not only to motivate them, but to also learn how to adapt to a new environment. When in college, students have a wide selection of people in their classes.
I didn’t know how I would survive this course, or write this paper. We were told we had to choose a book and construct a paper based off a major theme or topic from that book. Although my book was interesting, I still had no idea where to begin writing this paper. With the help of my teacher I decided to construct a paper based off of bullying and the effects it has on high school students. It was at that moment that my view of writing was completely altered.
Barriss Mills, a chairman of the National Council of Teachers of English at Purdue University, writes an essay titled “Writing as Process” in which he gives various reasons as to why our students are such poor writers. He analyzes our teachers and the techniques they use to teach English as well as some possible solutions to creating better writers. Before the paper even begins, the writer already gains credibility to its’ readers because he leaves a footnote mentioning his standing at Purdue University. This shows the reader that he knows what he is talking about when it comes to writing. It also shows that he has experience in the field of teaching English.
I finally felt like a normal child once I knew how to read and could keep up with the class. Reading will most likely be the thing that has had a huge impact on my everyday life. In the past when I was little I didn’t think reading was very important for my life, and I also didn’t like to read. In second grade my family and I discovered that I have mild dyslexia. It was very hard to deal with in school because I got confused very easily in anything that had to do with reading or writing.