Friday, November 6, 2015
October Blog: Teach with a Sense of Urgency
I have been teaching the same grade for several years. It would be so nice if I could just use my same lessons and ideas from my previous years. I worked hard on those lesson plans and copies are already made in some units. I would love to use them! I have learned that is not what is best for my students. I would be letting my students down if I took the easy way out and used my old stuff. These students this year have different needs. I have reset my expectations for my second graders. I am teaching ELA differently than I have ever before and I can tell a major difference! It is slowly fading into the other subject areas, too! This chapter was a great reminder that my students' learning is my responsibility. My students are counting on me! My teaching needs to be intentional and geared for what they NEED! I printed of the "Top 5 things I do to ensure students become excellent readers" list. I want to use this list as a daily and weekly reminder of what I should be doing.
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Lyndsey, what a strong teacher you are! I love that you realize that what goes on year to year in a classroom must change because the students change. You rock!
ReplyDeleteHi Lyndsey,
ReplyDeleteI appreciate that you taking Routman's challenge to teach with a sense of urgency and maximize your instructional time with your students, ensuring that your lessons are geared to their unique needs and interests. I don't think that means you can't use what you did last year, but I do think it means it needs to be filtered through the perspective of each new year's group of students and what they need and what new information you've learned. I'm always changing and learning too! It's one of the great things about our profession. We are learning too! Thanks, Dawn