First Post: Goals for Learning

Jami-
My concentration is Language Arts. I really do not feel as though I am prepared to teach it, at least not yet. My goals for this course are to first learn to teach students how to read, write, comprehend and ask questions. I feel this is one of the most challenging parts of teaching. If you have a student who can not read or write you will face a whole new challenge. I want to make sure I know how to do this effectively. Another goal of mine is to learn how to question readings and take what they are saying and implement them into my own teaching. When I read some piece of information I usually just believe it to be true because it is in print. I dont know how to look at it from another perspective and question it. One of my largest goals is learning how to teach ELLs without having to teach two seperate lessons to my students. I want them to be fully included in what is going on and be able to keep up with the rest of the students. I really just want to walk out of this semester and have a better understanding of how students learn to read and write and what types of strategies I can implement into my classroom. I want to be able to accomidate all of my students without taking too much time away from learning.

COMMENTS
Susan; Response: On the topic of ELLs, I feel extremely unprepared to teach to that group of students. I also hope we get some info on how to teach to them.. and also how to find out or gauge the amount of knowledge these students have in the world of LA.