When I began teaching about a year and a half ago, I entered the classroom with expectations of what I should accomplish as a science teacher. I had just completed a summer of training and classes that emphasized some strategies for raising student achievement. However, once the year started, not everything that I learned in theory became part of my daily practice. Now, as I'm in my second year, I've been able to start incorporating more new strategies and to work toward becoming closer to the teacher I want to be. One of the things I've been focused on recently is critical literacy, particularly this past semester as part of one of my graduate school classes.
As I reflect on my overall experience this past semester with critical literacy, I am left feeling excited about the potential opportunities that exist for it to become a more significant aspect of my classroom. One thing that surprised me most was that the more I thought about critical literacy, the more apparent the opportunities to incorporate it into my classroom became. Looking into the future, these are things that I will continue to have as part of my classroom. Getting critical literacy to be part of my classroom to the extent that I would like is going to take more work, time and thought on my part, but I think it has the potential to offer something very valuable to my students. I look forward to my continued journey with critical literacy!
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I really like how you want to work more critical literacy practices into the classroom. Even though I am not teaching yet I have been thinking about how i will incorperate these practices into my classroom and I wonder how it will really work with varying groups of students and i really admire how you are so focused on getting it into your classroom.
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