Most DEFINITELY...

Wow, what a semester. It is hard to believe that this semester has come to an end and how much I have learned and changed throughout this semester. I had not realized how much my ideas of Language Arts could change through the semester, but they did. As a student going through school, I always liked Language Arts, so I knew that I would enjoy this class, but now my ideas have changed because of all the knew knowledge that I have gained about teaching language arts. I have realized that language arts is more than just reading and writing, it is also listening, visually representing, and the other arts included in the 6 language arts. Overall, I loved this class, in part because it was an education class, as well as the fact that I have always been interested in language arts. One of the implications of what I have learned this semester includes the fact that I may get consumed with following "by the book" to teach language arts, rather than in just incorporating what the book says with what I know and want to do with my students. From my own experiences in Mrs. Banks' classroom, I have been able to see all of these topics and things that I have learned this semester put into action which makes learning these topics even more real and understandable because of seeing in put to action. Things that I will definitely do in my classroom in the future includes doing read alouds with my students, using the entire writing process, and use mini lessons to help remind students of a topic previously learned that may be troublesome, or just to do a quick recap. At the moment, I don't know of things that I will definitely not do, but I'm sure that with experience and future observations, I'm sure that things will arise.

Thank you so much for a great semester and Merry Christmas!