Blog #2

As I read Amber Miller's blog, I also liked the fact that Dr. Bishop stresses that literacy classes be safe and nurturing spaces, and that we should work together to create a supportive learning environment where good written and oral communication can flourish. I also thought that The Elizabethtown project seems very interesting to me and I have never done anything like that just as Melinda Hudson did.

When reading "Writing to learn across the curriculum: Tools for comprehension in content area classes", I found some interesting ways of having students to write rather than just giving them paper and expecting them to write. I also feel that this activities for them to do are the most important ideas I got from the article. I enjoyed the technology TED this week, I went outside to listen to all the different sounds around me and it made me come to a reality check that I need to pay attention to the things around me more instead of always being on my cell phone. You could use this technology with art by having the students to draw the things they hear, you could also use math by having the students come up with a word problem talking about the different things around them and for adding and subtracting. The thing that stood the most to me was in the reading when they were giving us all the ways to use writing because I absolutely hate writing but if my teachers would have known about these different ways to use writing when I was coming through school then I might have a different look towards writing. I believe that the way that students look at writing is base on how well the teacher teaches the subject and by giving the students feedback and having the students give feedback to one another. One question comes to my mind after reading this and it is why didn't my teachers do these different ways to show us how to write? Have these concepts been around and my school just didn't know or are they somewhat new?

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Introduction/First Blog

Hello everyone, my name is Adrianne Ashley and I am currently a Senior well actually a super senior but who's counting. :) I'm from a very small town in Mississippi known as Raleigh. I have a dog that lives with me and his name is Cooper and he is my life and I'm not sure what I would do without him. I enjoy shopping with my mom but only when she buys me stuff. ;) As you all know I am in Elementary Education with endorsements in Math and Science. The reason I chose this as my major is because when I was a little girl I always dreamed of becoming a teacher and everyday after school I would go into my playroom and play for hours like I was a teacher. I have to say that I believe I was a very good teacher back then and I plan on being an even better teacher in real life.

Last semester I was in 1st grade and I did enjoy it but I don't believe that is where I should be. I would like to have a higher grade, just not so sure how high of a grade I want to go. I am so excited to start teaching Math because that is my favorite subject and I enjoy learning new things and new techniques on learning math. On the other hand, I am most definitely not excited about teaching English because that is my worst subject and nothing about english inspires me.

As I was reading the syllabus one things that stood out for me was that during this course we were going to be planning instruction by using a variety of literacy practices and getting closer with our endorsement areas and I am really looking forward to learning all new things. I believe that this course is going to be about oral literacy with doing a lot of oral work during the classroom and learning ways to orally communicate with our students and learn fun and challenging tasks. So I am looking forward to learning new ways to communicate with students in a fun way like role playing. I have had to do blogs in two other classes that I have taken at USM so it seems that I should have the hang out it now and should start liking doing them but I honestly am not one who enjoys writing. However, I am looking forward to having an electronic pen pal and I feel that it is going to be very interesting to learn about how they are being taught. I am looking forward to a wonderful and experimental semester.