My hopes, visions, and dreams for the 2011 - 2012 school year are to try and get rid of the things that may have a negative impact on my classroom, just as goats may have negative impact on trying to grow a forest. Instead I would like to add more things that will have a positive impact on my classroom, similar to the way bees would have a positive impact on a forest as they pollinate and help it thrive. These analogies come from a video we watched in class called The Man Who Planted Trees, as we watched the video we compared the man to ourselves as teachers.
My hope is to have a great school year with my new class of 25 students that I have not yet met, and one way I hope to accomplish that is by increasing student choice in reading. I know that this change is going to take time and if I want it to work to its potential I know I need to be slow as I introduce each choice and set up the expectations associated with that choice. My Reading Workshop time is going to shift from a time where all students did was Read to Self, to a time where they could also choose to Read to Someone, Listen to Reading, Write about Reading, Work on Writing, or do Spelling/Word Work I have so many ideas in my head as to how this is going to work, my hope is that I find the TIME to get it all figured out in a concrete way so that it can have a positive impact on my 4th grade readers! I look forward to make this vision a reality, and while I know it is going to take a lot of work, I am going to take the advice of a fellow blogger and remember that Slow and Steady Wins the Race!
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