LiterateLife

Objectives

I will feel successful when:

           My students come to my class feeling like readers and writers.

           Each day they should know what is going to happen when they get to class because

            I have a predictable structure in place.

           My students have personal reading and writing goals that are celebrated when they

            are reached.

           My students are reading and writing for authentic purposes.

           In my classroom students work collaboratively using technology in the forms of

           blogs, wikis, and email, as well as use these technologies to publish.

Right now, I know this has not happened in my room this past school year. After this first full year in junior high, I feel like I am familiar with the curriculum and how to manage this age of students.

     Still, after 9 years teaching 3-6 graders, (and changing positions every 3 years) I never felt I had my teaching under control. The year was a series of disconnected learning experiences- I felt pulled in multiple directions by various methods that I couldn’t seem to put together into a seamless whole.