As most of us will probably say, my MAIN goal for this class is to learn how to become a successful teacher of language arts. Since language arts is my focus topic here at MSU it is something that I am more passionate about and I would like to learn how to express that passion in adequate ways to my future students. One thing I have learned throughout my teaching courses here at MSU is that you can be a "good" teacher however you can also be a dreary teacher at the same time, and that is something I would like to try to avoid. I want to not only be a good teacher but I also want my students to enjoy my teaching and to get exited about learning/class, because I believe this will help them become all around better students of reading and writing. With this being said, I am hoping this class will teach me skills and ideas to fulfill this.
I am also in the UECP here, meaning I focus more on teaching in urban environments. Therefore the type of school and community context I want to teach in would be one in an urban area. In one of the Jigsaw articles from chapter 9, "Teaching All the Children", it says "Children who attend hard-to-staff city schools often have vastly unequal opportunities to develop literacy and other academic skills." This statement right here states exactly why I want to teach in urban settings; to give these children that equal opportunity. The article then goes on to discuss the importance of placing qualified and well trained teachers into urban setting schools to help the students succeed. One topic they stress/focus on is literacy and language arts as many of the students are struggling readers and teachers need to prepare for this. I am hoping this class will be one to better prepare and train me to teach literacy and language arts in all subjects for "the most challenging schools" aka inner city or urban schools.
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