Reflections

Honestly when I first started this class I had a lot of questions. I wondered why I needed the class since I was not in an Elementary licensure program, nor do I plan to teach language arts. Over the course I started to see where particular ideas did line up with what I will be teaching, and I realized the significance of things in the mathematics class. I also was able to interview the language arts teacher and she made a point to mention the importance of writing between classes. She said that each team member works to incorporate writing, and the kids are much more interested in the process of writing when they see that it is important for all their classes and not just one. Through this class I have learned the importance of incorporating some form of writing into my mathematics class.

I also feel that in order to have stronger teams in school, and to have the ability to make stronger thematic units each teacher must know what the other classes are doing. Having taken this course I feel better prepared to keep up with the material that will be approached in the language arts class during future thematic units.

Through this course and my children's literature class I have become very aware of some great literature based resources that I hope to use in my future classroom. I was also showed very creative ways of introducing literature.

I am not sure how I will or if I will incorporate this, but I love mixbook.com. It is pretty much amazing, and I plan to continue to use that as a resource either in class or not.

I have enjoyed this course very much, and I have learned a lot about teaching language arts.

As a side note, blogging is not so bad after all. :)