It is important to use literacy in the classroom. It enhances learning and encourages students to think and explore. It helps students retain the information they have learned.
Things I will implement in my classroom....
I will definitely encourage critical thinking/literacy into my classroom. I want my students to be able the critically analyze websites they see, books they read, and information they are presented with. I will encourage them to explore and create beyond what they already know.
I am going to use all of the activities and lesson plans that we created for this class. The vocabulary assignment helped me create activities that encouraged learning of vocabulary terms.
As a teacher, I will often refer to the text set I created to find ideas for a class library or books that my students could read to explore the content more.
I will be using digital technology in my classroom. I will start a class blog where students can post lab results/pictures and can discuss topics and resources that relate to the curriculum.
How it helped....
This class helped my familiarize myself with literacy as a whole. It opened my mind up that text is not simply a published book. Text is a wide variety of resources to learning. This class helped me become a better teacher by learning how to implement literacy into my classroom.
