Megan Williams Signing Off: Blog Post #10

I really enjoyed this class for this semester! It was my favorite class of the whole year actually. I think the reason why I liked it so much was because the material we were learning about wasn’t boring. It was interesting and fun! Also, I never felt stressed out by this class, which was really nice to just have a class that I could go to and learn about new ways of how to teach my students!

I have learned a lot with this class this semester! I have learned new ways of how to make English fun and exciting for my students. For example, the graphic novel section. I would have never thought to use graphic novels to teach an English lesson! I thought it was so cool how many ideas could branch off from the idea of graphic novels and I think it would be really good to use, especially for those kids who don’t like to read that much! Also, I liked how we did a series study! I think that it is a good thing for kids to get involved in because then they can find a series to get sucked into rather than spending a long time finding multiple books. I think that this lesson will help with bringing in a group dynamic.

I wished that I would have learned a couple of things this semester! I think that it would have been beneficial to spend some time talking about the core standards that teachers are required to teach! I think this would have been good because then we could start planning lesson plans that will hit multiple areas! Maybe it would have been nice to spend a good chunk of time talking about the cores and then how to apply them! Also along the lines of more instruction based, it would have been helpful to spend more time talking about how to write/teach subjects like poetry or book clubs!

I feel that with what I learned I can really start planning some lesson plans and activities! With the website final, I have started to compile information and my ideas somewhere where I can go back to when I have enough time to make a lesson plan! Also I feel like all of the activities we did like the graphic novels and series book with projects gave me an idea of how to use those activities in the future! Like ‘Battle Bunny’, I think that I could use this book with lessons in Fairy Tales! I had this idea on my website where I could find a couple of the classics and then they re-write them like ‘Battle Bunny’! It was really fun for me so I can only imagine how fun it will be for them!

This class was very fun and very great in terms of getting me ready for my future as a teacher! I am sad that it is over but I know that I will never forget my awesome semester in this class! Thanks for everything and this is Megan Williams Signing off!