Cheryl De Roia
Reading Reflection 6/16
Subjects Matter- Every Teacher’s Guide to Content-Area Reading by Harvey Daniels and Steven Zemelman
Chapter 10-11 (pages 216-)
When skimming the chapter titles I was most excited about chapter 11 because it promised to offer help for struggling students. While all of our conversation this week has been about reading and how there are some kids that are below grade level, for the most part our text book has been about reaching the average kid. Though I am a learning specialist, I can always learn new ways to help struggling students within the general education classroom. This chapter did not offer any new ideas- in fact it said to call on your special education teacher! What?! This text has been full of great ideas but on this topic, it fell flat.
The inquiry model is interesting and something that I guess I have done for years. Maybe because I do work with really low students, I felt that a lot of teacher pre-work and front loading would be necessary to avoid student frustration and teacher stress. I would like to set up an inquiry model in my academics class.
Today we used “written conversation” as our protocol. I enjoyed this process because it was less formal than some other since we were essentially writing notes back and forth to each other. I found it funny that Christine and I had to same comments on our papers without even talking to each other. It was also nice to end this process with a whole group discussion to share what was written and follow up with any additional comments or questions.
As I was reading today I was mostly trying to stay focused. I knew that I was responsible to discussing the text with my group and that forced me to get the reading done. I found myself having a mental conversation about staying on task and finding relevant and important text. As I read I would reflect on things I have done in my classroom and things I have seen other people do. It was good to compare the text with real life.
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