An Introduction

Good Evening Fellow Teach Fairies :)

I am a Middle School teacher in training. My areas of emphasis are Math and Science. For a Content Literacy class, we are required to make a blog.  I guess we are exploring how content literacy is important and how crucial it is for middle school students.

For my first post, I read a blog post called "How Important is Teaching Literacy in All Content Areas?" This opened my eyes to what literacy means in our society. It no longer only means being able to read and write but to communicate with the people around us. As teachers, it is so important that we encourage and enable our students to participate in discussions because that is how they learn and make content meaningful in their lives. I agree with what Rebecca was saying throughout her whole post. She helped me to realize that though we need to work on communication of our students, we also need to find opportunities for our students to practice their writing. The more practice our students get with communicating amongst their peers and quick writing about different topics, the more they will think and become more literate.

Over the course of this semester I hope to share my ideas about teaching along with learn from other teachers out there. I also hope to establish a network of support for when I begin my teaching, all while getting a better understanding in content literacy.