Chapters 3 & 16 Blog 3

Hannah Bontrager
Prof. Schurman
20 January 2012
Blog 3

I loved these chapters! You and I actually covered a few of these ideas when we talked after class that first day. The idea of how I want to use technology in my classroom related so well to chapter 3. We are raising up a generation who is targeted for all of the new technology. So why not encourage that? Or at least accept it? Use it in the classroom to keep the students engaged. Give them Kindles instead of textbooks or use blogs like these to post assignments instead of turning in papers. Going onto chapter 16, I love the idea of breaking past stereotypes. Wanting to work in an urban-type area myself, I love the idea of wanting to work with culturally and racially diverse students. I also agree with the thought that sometimes the textbooks expect to much out of the student, reading level wise. If the book is to hard to read and comprehend the students will be frustrated and discouraged. I am not saying that this is an excuse not to read, but maybe put the textbooks down and give different ways to explain the material, but still manage to broaden the students' vocabulary so that one day, maybe even by the end of your class, their reading levels go up and they will not have as hard a time reading more difficult material. Give them daily journals to read and analyze with words they maybe do not see every day. Being a teacher is all about being creative and finding different ways of making the students, with all different types of learning, understand the material. I, for one, cannot wait to start!