Final Update 05/14/10

I personally though this course was a great course for educators specializing in a Masters in Reading. I think it was a little bit stressful for me due to working towards a Masters in Special Education, it required a lot of work to complete the assignments and excessive research. Although I learn a lot and was impressed on how the instructor incorporated technology to keep all student actively involved due to being in a on-line course. I think I did good in the class I just had some difficulties working the web cam along with posting PowerPoint on my blog site. I think I would have done excellent if I was able to complete the above mention tasks. Hopefully the professor will keep this class the way it is and continue to challenge students to do more in order to seek for knowledge about content literacy in all subject matters.

REED 502 weekly progress

This week was a better week than last week. I am fully recovered and had a great time doing my assignment of observing a fellow new teacher Earth Science class. I learned many different techniques on how to engage students by personal experiences to help reinforce the lesson. I was impressed on how observing a class helps me think of important skills to incorporate in my daily lesson plans. It also was a great way to talk to a co-worker about education other than normal conversation which actually support one another's progress. I am looking forward to the end of the semester so i can have a break form excessive work. Overall I am pleased with the valuable knowledge I have obtained while enrolled in REED 502.

04/23/10 Weekly post

This week was the worst week for me as far as health. I had the stomach virus which just about everyone in my school contracted from one another so I been weak and off of work for several days. I had a hard time completing this assignment due to my illness but I got it done. I was impressed on how I incorporated my lesson plans from my class which is biology into my unit so this assignment was rather easy for me. So far this class is wrapping up and things are coming together quite easy. I hope I can complete my final assignment with the permission of my principal who has not given me a answer as of yet. Hopefully I will learn something new from the next assignment observing my fellow co-worker classroom this upcoming week.

04/16/2010

Hey REED 502 here again to post my weekly progress via text. I found this assignment to be interesting but somewhat boring to me because I'm not personally interested in Math in any way so I had to think of way to make the unit that would be interesting outside of the normal assignments given in class. This semester is shaping up quite well I am staying busy with these assignments and looking forward for summer break from school and work. I've learn a lot of techniques to use in the 2010-2011 school year to incorporate in my classes.

04/09/10 Weekly Update

Still no way to load my response via web cam. I though this assignment was rather easy knowing that the first one would be like a template to complete the next one on Social Studies. I was impressed on how I Incorporated the music poetry lesson unit and made an extension to the Harlem Renaissance Social Studies unit. I very love the way our instructor allowed us to become knowledgeable in all subject matters to get a clear understanding of how each is important to all students.

04/02/10 Weekly Response

Still unable to post a video post on this website. I am writing to express my personal thoughts on the assignment of creating a Music Unit plan. I was impressed on how Dr. Jenkins incorporated everything we have learned since the beginning of this semester until now to place in our unit. I learned so much on how to fully engage students in Jazz & poetry with the help of using multimedia and research texts. I had to go to work this week and my co-workers were really impressed on my assignment and how the teacher aligned everything in order to make the assignment successful that some have develop lesson plans for their students to use in class by the use of correlating mini lessons. I personally took a week to complete the assignment so for the least to say it was very time consuming but allowed me to gain valuable knowledge to use in my career as a Special Educator teaching content literacy.

· Students need to be engaged fully by having personal interests in there readings
· Students should try their best to participate even when they are not interested and become worldlier in specific content areas.
· Teacher should try to incorporate different types of media along with materials outside of the traditional textbook for that class being taught.
· Student need to read to learn as opposed to reading to locate answers, the meaning should be incorporated in their learning.
· Students should try to learn the bottom down approach when reading to ensure that answer related to the text can be answered properly especially on standardized test.
· Teacher should learn as many strategies and techniques through the use of professional development and active research to help student become engage in content literacy and the skill set behind it.