I really enjoyed this class, and I like how I had the opportunity to read both Y.A. lit and canonical texts this year. I found Classics in the Classroom by Carol Jago to be extremely helpful in teaching canonical texts and reading texts more critically. I am glad I bought the book this semester because there are so many great ideas and activities throughout the text that I will definitely use once I am a teacher.
I am glad I had the opportunity to tutor my student from Firestone again this semester. I really appreciate that teachers gave the students class time so that we could tutor them for the OGT. I rarely tutored my student last semester because of our conflicting schedules so I was really happy to have the opportunity to have one on one tutoring sessions with him.
It seems like we were hardly in class this semester due to snow days and time spent at Firestone, but if we had more time I would have liked to go over teaching test strategies and test preparation for the OGT so that I could help my student more. I feel that I did help him but when I viewed the questions in his test booklet it seems that the test had changed a lot since I took it in high school.
The Firestone assignment really made me think about how to help students based on their strengths and weaknesses; however, I wish we would have discussed lesson plans more before completing this assignment. I am also glad that we completed the expert group presentations. I was glad to be in the role of a teacher and create a lesson plan with my peers. I wish that we completed more of these in class so that I could become more confident in constructing lesson plans and figuring out what does and doesn't work.
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