Week 5 readings

Week 5 Readings

Immediately when I began reading the article on classroom discussion I thought of our own in comparing to the ones we will be teaching in. It mentioned the importance of different views or interpretation of a text by students that make a reading interesting and worth the read. In our TE 401 and 402 classes our discussions about readings and the way we viewed them is the most helpful part of these classes and what makes up a majority of them so why would we not bring this into our own classrooms? I have talked about before the way teachers sometimes view younger students. Do we see them as students at to low of a level to be able to hold a discussion? Do teachers not know where a discussion could fit into a full day of required subjects and glecs? Or are there other reasons? Getting the students to let us see there views and what they understood I believe is a great assessment and way to help students learn from each other. Students should not have to learn alone. The article touched on how bringing the reader’s view of the reading and their own life experiences bring new information to the people around it. Now relating that to my classroom I am in now I have a mix of discussion being interpreted into it. My classroom spends much time reading the books they have to read for literacy and a small amount of time sharing with the class what they read and why they like it. It is a fifth grade classroom that many students need that time to read but the discussion is lacking. This however is what I remember in my classroom growing up. Much time was spent reading and few was spent sharing.