Final Blog

I think that it is important to point out that all three of use have a kindergarten classroom that we have been working with and although we have separate CT's they share many of the same teaching qualities. For example, when it comes to literacy in the classroom, all three of them integrate literacy into other subjects outside of just literacy. For all of our classrooms literacy seems to be a top priority as it is taught throughout the entire day in many different ways. Ever since I have wrote about my classroom and literacy I have found that my CT has began to incorporate more controversial topics into her literacy lessons plans, including topics such as race and color. Another thing that we all agreed on was how we feel it is important to have meaningful, student based conversations about stories or texts that are read in class. We all felt like conversations are a great way for you as a teacher to understand what the student is thinking after they have heard a book. From what I have looked over we didn't seem to disagree with each other on any part of our readings or classroom and how they incorporate literacy. I think this goes to show that we all show respect for our CT's and how they have went about teaching literacy in their classrooms.

Through our jigsaw articles we were able to use each others thinking to help guide ourselves through the readings. This was very helpful when doing all of the readings as I did not have to pay as close of attention to the articles the other two were going to read and post about because I knew that I was going to be able to compare what I have read with what they have wrote. Many times I was able to pick up on new things that I would probably have never picked up on without reading the blog posts. We were also able to see where we agreed with each other, this was also a good way to see if we were on the right track or not. On the other hand I do feel that many of the readings we did this semester were repetitive to what we have already learned in other classes. I feel like we had a lot of readings to do that were very difficult to get through not only because the context was boring but that we have already learned that material, it just may have been written by a different author. I am not saying this is the case for all of the readings, just for some of them, such as the articles on ELL's. This is a topic we have covered multiple times and there is only so much reading you can do on one sub-topic. One way we could have improved our blogs for future references would be to possibly ask each other a question or a concern we had about the jigsaw article they had to read. This would promote more conversation between the blog groups, since our group tended to focus more on our own classrooms and thoughts instead of the other group members.

I would give myself a 9 our of 10 for the noteblogs, I found this hard to grade because we had only a limited amount of entries for the second half of the semester.