This is the final post that I am required to write for class. We have been posting once a week, and while this post is something that I would like to keep up with, I am not sure I will be able to maintain posting once a week. Instead, I will post whenever I find something that I think is interesting, something that I have questions about, or that I feel is a pressing issue that all teachers should know about.
Throughout this course we have discussed many different issues that effect literacy, how students learn and, more importantly, how we teach. Through the various articles, videos and blogs that I was given the chance to experience during this course, my eyes were really opened to different ideas and strategies that can (and maybe should) be used to help teach our students.
One of my favorite things from this semester and something that I will never forget was the video that we had the chance to watch on Gladwell's discussion of Howard Moskowitz' pursuit of the perfect pickles, Pepsis, Ragus instead of the perfect pickle, Pepsi, Ragu. What I took away from this was that Moskowitz made the discovery that not every single people likes, or in comparison, can successfully learn the same way. Basically, he meant that while one style of teaching may work wonderful for one student to learn, it may not work for the next student, and if another strategy or technique does, it might not work for the next student. We do not all learn the same way, and therefore, teachers need to be able to adjust and make arrangements to be sure that each child is receiving an equal chance to learn and understand, even if that means teaching every kid in the classroom differently. Someone questioned, why doesn't this already happen? And the answer is simple, teacher's don't have enough time. So how do we make this work? This is still a question that I have that I hope to be able to answer through more research and personal experience in the future.
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