Chapter 3 Reader's Response

Chapter 3 is a classroom research for reading response obtained by data collected by the author to reveal how student readings can be evaluated for educators to know what and how reading can influence students’ development to learn. But the students’ must be ready to engage the reading if not they will not want to read. This chapter is to give teachers ideas and strategies that will support them implementing a good reading response program in their classrooms. The data collection methods and the three categories of responses were easy to follow and understand. A teacher could if the situation is right use these strategies but the teachers must first know the students in their classrooms to implement the findings. Another thing that must be viewed is that schools have policy about contents being taught in the classrooms. What if a student wants to read about explicit characters like rap artist, subjects deemed non-educational, etc. So teachers must work with the students about matters of this kind. Classroom is more like a studio is a good point to make but when reading and response is concerned. If students are learning what they like it will appeal to them and their own intuition takes over. This is not one shoe fits all but learning as it matches the students’ own cognitive development. This assignment is a good one because the author uses both implicit and explicit details to support his ideas and what I get from this are tools to examine to keep records of my process as a teacher and benchmark my instructions around students’ responses and assessments.

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If you have trouble seeing the add video in your posting it is because you must change the new edit to old edit. Begin by going to your blogger page, click dashboard, click settings, scroll down to the bottom, select old edit, save. You should see the add video icon to download videos. I am doing this but my computer just keeps processing it and never download the video. I tried to change to other medias but they will not do as well. Could anyone let me know how to fix this?

Carl's Podcast

http://www.box.net/shared/7igja0o3f Hello dear classmates sorry for the long wait for my to get started but now the time has come to see my podcast.
Carl

Hello, My Introduction of Me

My name is Carl Harvin and I m a recent graduate of Coppin State University (CSU) with a B.S. degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with a concentration in Mathematics and Secondary Education. I am now in my second semester in the Masters of Art in Teaching (MAT) here a CSU graduate studies program. I like to travel, spend time with my little brother- I am a volunteer for Big Brother of Baltimore. My hobbies are sports- basketball, football, and baseball yet I mostly watch now that I am older. I have been exposed to Middle and High school students mostly at Coppin Academy. When I was a teacher intern in the Spring 2009 semester I found that some students used calculators and could not remember combining like term in algebraic equations. So I did my Intervention Study on algebraic equation. I found that if a teacher use examples or include a common interest of the students they would learn the concept. My mentor teacher of the 9th grade mathematics class and I decided to use the intials of last names as the variables to combine. The theme of our project was, We are family, to engage the students athis we believed was common knowldge to all about family last names. The results of the project had various outcome-some improved but other did not,or some got the same results. A factor that contribute to this was we had three phases- a pre-test , a lesson, and then a post-test. Some students missed one or two phases. In the classrooms I expect to see concepts in each discipline that will include common interest of the students that will engage and keep the students hooked on the material for the students to learn. The article and Ms. Moje's Podcast focused on literacy for secondary school teachers and for secondary school teachers to be properly trained and ready to include contents literacy in their classrooms. History teachers and many other subject area teachers are using different media and technology to teach especially in secondary schools that content area teachers should be trained profeciently in literacy instruction to teach from the text..