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Learning Letter Miranda Haag 1. Reflect on the work you’ve completed in the course (text presentations, content portfolio, etc.) The work I have done in this class has really taught me a lot about the reality of bbeing a teacher. For example, through reading the different books I learned a lot more about specific methods teachers use in their classrooms and that really helped give me an actual image in my head of what my career might look like moving forward. The biggest thing I learned is that as an educator I am always going to be learning and reflecting in order to make sure my practices are good for the students. I’ve learned that you never stop recreating yourself as a teacher and I will always be trying to improve my skills. 2. Reflect on the theories and concepts we explored in readings and discussions Through the reading and discussions, I also learned how different me and some of my classmate’s perspective are on different teaching ideas. But I think hearing e...

Content Portfolio Visual Literacy Artifact 1: The first example of Speaking and listening I want to talk about is from high school in Social studies, where instead of just reading the text book at home and trying to understand the events that wen on in history, a group of students would be assigned a section and then they would bee required to act out the events that were happening.The intent for this would be that student gain a better understanding of the reality of the historic events in our books by getting to watch it rather than just reading it.  Reflection:   This type of visual lesson was extremely helpful as a student because reading and understanding what these events actually was really difficult for me. And I could see myself using this as a teacher especially when reading Shakespeare.Because, shakespearian writing can be very difficult to understand since its written differently than mo...

No More Fake Reading by: Berit Gordon Slides:https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nnkTI3D88H3VLeYIpyh7m6y7dIwoTikNSYB-RZKFAUE/edit?usp=sharing Handout: Please include a detailed description of the text. Take into consideration that your colleagues might not be familiar with the text that you have chosen. A detailed description will include everything necessary for your classmates to gain an understanding of the text without reading it. Your job is to introduce the text in a complete way so that it is possible for others to decide when, where, and how this text might be appropriate. This text is all about ways we can get our students more involved with reading in our classrooms. we see student doing fake reading a ll. the time with their phones behind the books or them sleeping with their heads on the desk. This book provides us with many ideas to get students involved. For example, with the Blended classroom model which incorporates choice reading as a way to keep students...