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What I have discovered about myself as a reader and how that
impacts my future classroom. Where
do I struggle? What’s easy for me?
It’s really easy for me to see where books have their
value. It’s really easy for me to
see that gaining a love of reading has blessed my life in so so so many ways .
. . my education and knowledge wouldn’t be the same without my love for reading
and my ability to be introspective.
I think this will help my classroom in that I will be able to model for
them how to introspectively search out the things they are reading and reflect
upon how what they read means to them.
However, I do struggle, now, when I’m so busy, to just read
for fun. I don’t make extra
reading enough of a priority. . .at least when it comes to novels. For example, I do read the news a lot,
I read a lot of school materials, which I continue to practice the same skills
on. But I don’t read a lot of
extra literature to help me be more involved in the literary cannon. I’ve not read enough children’s
literature to keep me up to date on what would be good for my students. I feel that if I don’t get to work on
some of these things- I’ll connect with students on the things I know, but be
unaware how to spark interest in things that would be more interesting to them.
Good self-assessment of your reading strengths and the areas where you might want to do a bit more reading. However, I feel that each of us as English teachers have things that we naturally love to read and that enthusiasm will always translate to some of our students. I am a news and science and information text lover and would just as soon pick up the latest CNN report as a novel. That's okay in my book. The important thing is that you acknowledge different types of texts and help students find what they are interested in reading during "free reading" time.
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