Possess an in-depth knowledge of the subject taught.
While filling out college applications my senior year of high school, declaring my major of Adolescent English Education was a no-brainer. I've always loved words. I've always been an avid reader and writer and wanted to advance my knowledge in this field.
SUNY Cortland has an excellent selection of English classes which helped me greatly in advancing my knowledge and skills in the English world. It is very important that teachers are experts in their field because it is our jobs as educators to offer our students all the knowledge and instruction we possess. With over fifty credits in the English department, it is safe to say I know what I am doing. We need to have strong critical literacy skills as well as mastery in the following subjects: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Our students depend on us to guide them and if we are not fluent in our fields, what good are we as educators?
During my student teaching with the 12th grade, I taught the timeless play, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare is never an easy subject to teach, but I felt as if I was well prepared to do so. Besides the fact that I love anything Shakespeare writes, I've taken a Shakespeare class as well as other classes that covered him. The best way for students to understand Shakespeare is to learn it in ways that it connects with all of their learning styles: auditory, visual, tactile. Therefore, we did many different activities to incorporate all of that from reading the text aloud, watching the movie (Kenneth Branagh version is what I used), and doing group work to analyze certain aspects of the play.
During my 7th grade placement, I also taught William Shakespeare, but this time we read A Midsummer Night's Dream. Since this would be the 7th graders first time encountering Shakespeare, I knew that I needed to give them a very good background on the Shakespeare himself and of course, the language. For a few days, we went through the study of Early Modern English so I could get them ready and familiar with the language for when we started A Midsummer Night's Dream. The language presentation is linked on my "Teaching Strategies" page.
SUNY Cortland has an excellent selection of English classes which helped me greatly in advancing my knowledge and skills in the English world. It is very important that teachers are experts in their field because it is our jobs as educators to offer our students all the knowledge and instruction we possess. With over fifty credits in the English department, it is safe to say I know what I am doing. We need to have strong critical literacy skills as well as mastery in the following subjects: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Our students depend on us to guide them and if we are not fluent in our fields, what good are we as educators?
During my student teaching with the 12th grade, I taught the timeless play, Hamlet, by William Shakespeare. Shakespeare is never an easy subject to teach, but I felt as if I was well prepared to do so. Besides the fact that I love anything Shakespeare writes, I've taken a Shakespeare class as well as other classes that covered him. The best way for students to understand Shakespeare is to learn it in ways that it connects with all of their learning styles: auditory, visual, tactile. Therefore, we did many different activities to incorporate all of that from reading the text aloud, watching the movie (Kenneth Branagh version is what I used), and doing group work to analyze certain aspects of the play.
During my 7th grade placement, I also taught William Shakespeare, but this time we read A Midsummer Night's Dream. Since this would be the 7th graders first time encountering Shakespeare, I knew that I needed to give them a very good background on the Shakespeare himself and of course, the language. For a few days, we went through the study of Early Modern English so I could get them ready and familiar with the language for when we started A Midsummer Night's Dream. The language presentation is linked on my "Teaching Strategies" page.
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