Sunny Wilson

     Common core is something I have never fully been introduced to since it was implemented after I was already out of school. As teachers, we need to be ready to develop a curriculum that will help students succeed while addressing the common core requirements. Your curriculum also needs to be extremely effective towards motivating the students' learning for the next school year. As teachers, we also need to understand that our passion and commitment to the subject matter does indeed motivate our students.       As I bounced around on the website, I fell upon the myth vs. fact section of the common core standards. There were myths that English teachers would be obligated to also teach science and social studies. People believed common core would require educators to be more global around subjects. The website responded with "However, because college and career readiness overwhelmingly focuses on complex texts outside of literature, these standards a...

      I was personally never interested in graphic novels myself, however, I did have many friends growing up who read them very frequently. The only time I recall reading graphic novels in a classroom was about Elementary School. I was excited to learn about graphic novels and how they can benefit the classroom. I can see where graphic novels can help students accelerate their learning by enhancing their visual senses along with reading the story behind the visuals. Graphic novels are multimodal which can benefit multiple types of readers. Graphic novels can also reduce the reading load which can reduce students anxieties about reading. After researching, I also found that "graphic novels are cross-curricular; there are many connections that can be made across the curriculum in a variety of different subject matters" (cultofpedaogy).        I believe as a teacher we need to take into account that our students will have various reading styles. Some...

  Throughout my college career, I have been introduced to discussion-based learning. I always found it very productive in my classes, I’ve also had many classes with many various personalities that helped form a wide variety of insight throughout discussions. I always found our classroom discussions very productive and helpful. Discussions have given me so much insight to so many different points of views I have never thought about when it comes to reading and interpreting.     I have never opened my eyes to see how much structure is produced to support and obtain a productive class discussion. Teachers must be prepared for the subject changing courses throughout the discussion along with other potential aspects that can make the discussion go off course. After reading “Discussion as A Way of Teaching” by Stephen Brookfield, my eyes were opened to the structure behind productive discussions and how they can also fail. One part of this read that really stuck out to me wa...