Shaping the way we teach English: Module 2

I also believe that building language awareness is very important. I liked how the video clip showed how it is important for students to reflect on their own learning. I especially liked how they learned about the mayflower by dressing as pilgrims and demonstrating what they were reading. I think it is great when teachers use different style of learning in their lessons. It seemed that this was working really well in the class shown in the video. They incorporated all different styles of learning into this lesson, which really helped address all different kinds of learners. It was nice how they related what they were learning to their own experiences. This reminds me a lot about what I do in my elementary lesson plans for literacy because we always after reading a passage or story do a retell, which has the students answer different levels of Bloom’s questions. To see that this is also what is going on in the video really helps emphasize the importance of this and how it works with students. I hope that I am able to make my lessons like this one in the video clip. Based on the lessons I have to write for my elementary classes, it seems this is what I will be doing. I hope to one day have a classroom that has lots of language support and awareness around the room on the walls and stuff for my students to look to for help. And I also hope to provide a well-rounded lesson that incorporates different learning styles and real life activities/things.