Our Ideal School- EDST 401
When I did my undergrad it was clear to me early-on that I wanted to share my love for English and the way I could do that was through teaching. Naturally, the Language & Literacy Education courses I have taken during this program have been the most inspirational. The most recent of these courses being LLED 449- Teaching Adolescents Literature. Through this course I was able to reconnect with reading novels and reading for pleasure. I was reminded of the reasons that I loved books growing up, why I excelled at English in high school and why I pursed it in post secondary and most importantly why I want to teach it for the rest of my career. The other LLED courses I have taken have taught me many ways to share and teach the English language and literature with my future students. I feel like these courses were the most beneficial because they provided you with many different applicable resources which is what I felt I needed going into the practicum and now coming to an end of the program. While the other courses in the program provided many insights to teaching I felt like my LLED courses were the backbone.
I felt like Social Justice and Social Emotional Learning was a big theme throughout the year. Now that I am reflecting back on this I realize that this was a concept that I immediately accepted without any hesitation.I think I did not have any hesitation or reservations with these themes because they are already practices that are reflective of not only my teaching but my own personal ideals. I really support Social Emotional Learning because I think that supportive relationships are often the foundation of many great classrooms and workplaces.
Born Confused Response- Immigrant YA Novels