Here is a link to my Classroom Library: here.
This is a link to my Classroom Library slideshow. Here you can see that I focused on (mostly) grade five books with a focus on grade-appropriate novels for a classroom library.
Reading is important, but what I want to again highlight is my growth in the subject. In the above link, we have a collection of grade-appropriate stories but in the video link below, we have the creation of a grade-appropriate (for Kindergarten) story. As an educator, we are always learning, we should be life-long learners. I am very confident in my ability to teach and read to students, and hopefully, the growth can be seen between these two pieces. Just as important as the growth though is my willingness to try my best and to put my students who need the most support first and foremost.
This is a link to my Children’s Literature Assignment: Link.
This is a video of myself reading out loud for the first time to a camera. You can see the nervousness in how tense my left hand is at times. While I will admit that I’m fairly good at covering my nerves with confidence and a ‘fake it until you make it’ attitude, what I want to again focus on is the growth in the topic.
Finally, the last piece of media that is related to this topic is the RAFTS video. In this video I discuss one of the use, theory, and limitations of a relatively common scaffolded writing technique. It is used quite often for paragraph and essay writing in the upper intermediate grades onward through secondary school. What was difficult about this topic is that it required me to be critical about the teaching practice without any specific literature to fall back on. Teachers are wonderful at creating new techniques for educating students, but they do not often (out of professional curtesy) critique other peoples’ teaching practice or preferred techniques in a public and published way; however, this assignment required me to really delve into the limitations of this particular teaching tool.
Link to the RAFT and RAFTS video