Teaching Strategies Reflection

This assignment I felt was a great benefit to me as a new teacher. I believe that this was the most beneficial assignment I have had since I entered the MAT program at UAM. I learned numerous strategies to aid my students in reading comprehension. I learned that there are many different avenues to arrive at the same destination. All of the strategies that I use in my classroom have the same goal. That goal is to improve student’s literacy skills to increase student learning.
I feel that my students learned how to implement these strategies to better comprehend what they are reading. I believe that my student’s also learned that using these strategies makes reading less intimidating to them. Teaching student’s literacy strategies is a great idea. I learned that by teaching students these strategies I am equipping them with tools they will have for the rest of their life. These literacy tools will better enable them to be academically successful.
The only thing that I feel I will change is to teach students more strategies. I do not want to overwhelm them but I believe that the more literacy strategies that my students know the more prepared they are for the academics that are in their future.