Blog Post #6

I can't believe this is already the final blog post! I remember doing our first blog post like it was last week! This semester has really flown by!! I have learned so much from this course that I plan to use in my discipline when I become a teacher. There were some things in this course that would be very hard to implement into my Physical Education discipline, but almost everything would work in my Health discipline. I could incorporate vocabulary words through Health in a lot of ways! I loved that we did a lesson plan on this. Vocabulary words are very important in health, students need to know what health related words mean to get the effects drugs have on you, how the body works, etc. I loved when we had lessons on reading and comprehension. I had never thought about all the different ways you can incorporate different texts for your students to read and still be interested in. I think finding a very interesting book to read when there is time left after class is a great idea! The book I did for my book talk, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, is a book that I would most definitely read to my students. I loved the different ideas I got from this class about digital texts. I had never heard of over half the sources Amy provided for us. I did one of them for my self-selected project, glogster. I will use so many of those in my classroom! I think they all provide great sources for my students to use. It helps me to be more diverse in my teaching as well. I loved when we had class discussions on having diverse learners in your classroom. I have always thought that this is something I could struggle with as a teacher. But after hearing different ideas from everyone in our classroom, it opened my eyes to how I can in corporate some of those ideas into my teaching. It made me feel much more comfortable. Overall, I really enjoyed this class and learned much more than I ever thought I would to help me become more prepared to be a teacher.