Jessica Feliz Blog #1

Blog Post #1

Hi! My name is Jessica Feliz, I am a senior here at Chico State and my major is Liberal Studies. Santa Maria, CA is where I was born, I had lived there all my life until transferring to Chico State last year. This is the start of my second year as a wildcat and I am so happy to be here. I decided I wanted to become a teacher way back in high school. It seems like just yesterday, but teaching has been my goal for almost 5 years now. My future goal is to finish schooling and become a kindergarten teacher. I have volunteered in many classrooms but the joy of the kindergarten classes has always put a smile on my face. I am excited to have the chance to teach students and show them all what school has to offer!

In my opinion anybody can be a reader, a reader is someone who is interested and loves to read. Whether it is books, blogs or newspapers as long as you are enjoying what you are reading that is all that matters. Personally I love to read articles, articles on anything and everything. I will find articles on past crimes, teaching, random facts, animals.. Anything that catches my interest I find myself infatuated with. I also like to read books, mostly fiction and mysteries. The taste in my books has never really helped me with school, but the articles have. I tend to look up articles that have something to do with my schoolwork, if I am particularly interested in a subject then I like to look further into it.

This article was interesting to me. I thought it was interesting that he first started with the literary crisis’s from different generations. The solution to the literacy and identity crisis that was drawn out in the end by Williams struck me, “if we want to serve students best in their literacy education we should not scare them with tales of the literacy crisis of their generation but instead teach them how to understand how language, culture and identity work together.” Older generations don’t believe in our generation today, that we are able to read and write proficiently because of “new age” things like social media, texting, etc. but there have been studies that prove our generation is reading and writing more than any generation before us. I am a strong believer that if someone tells you, you are not good enough so many times your going to start to believe it. We as teachers and future teachers need to encourage our students, tell them they are readers and writers. And as Williams said, stop scaring them into thinking they are going to disappoint and fail, instead encourage them to be strong and successful.