The final Post

Buehl, D. (n.d.). Developing Readers in the Academic Disciplines (p. 263-279) Question: How can generic literacy practices be modified to meet the demands of readers and writers in disciplinary contexts? We have discussed the importance of self-learning through reading complex texts. Now we must learn how to modify generic literacy practices to help our students find success in our classrooms. How can we extend our students knowledge beyond the classroom environment? We need to be able to show them that the skills they learn in the classroom are a stepping stone for self-development. Instructional practices are ever changing we need to change along with them to become quality educators. It’s my opinion that generic strategies are a blue print not a recipe to be followed blindly by the instructor. We should take an idea and then change it to fit our individual classroom situations. I try to look at them as a prototype and thus they are only a starting point to jump off from. If I have learned anything throughout this class it’s that one shoe size doesn’t fit everyone, so one generic literacy practice shouldn’t be used by all teachers universally. Use the support staff that is provided to you at the school you work at. A master teacher once told me that no one should feel that sharing lesson plans is a bad thing because no one should own a quality lesson plan. Education is something to be shared and grown upon. I like to think of this as insider information. I have stated how advantageous modeling “what and how” regarding classroom instruction is. The “why” is also vital to achieving reading and writing literacy in our classrooms. We need to embed eminence literacy practices into our yearly plans to ensure we address reading and writing skills in our nontraditional classroom fields of study. This will give our students the best chance to live a knowledge base life full of self-discovery and curiosity that could lead to the next evolution of their being. Remember that the more self-knowledge we seek out as teachers the more knowledge we pass down to our students. This is the privilege and the responsibility we all sign up for when we decide to become an educator. This will be my last blog post, I want to wish everyone well and I will pray that we impact numerous students in a positive way during our teaching careers. Thank you, and good bye!!!!!!