Portfolio Assignment

Looking back throughout the course of this semester, the work that I have done will be a helpful tool as I enter the realm of a classroom. The texts have been facsinating because of the relevance they had for what I would want to be as a teacher. Gee's book, "What Video Games have to Teach us About Learning and Literacy," has shown me that as teachers we need to reflect more on the embodied action and spend more time in designing a means for students to be able to construct their learning so that they dont look at a textbook the same way I would look at a videogame manual. We need to set up the stage, use terminology that they can understand so that they can grasp the bigger concepts in subjects such as science or economics. In the same way, Stefanie Harvey states in her book, Nonfiction Matters, the key to teaching writing is passion. Children are passionate inquirers and providing a means for them to discover the world in new and real ways through nonfiction can fuel their desire to continue their journey of learning.
The compostions that I have made throughout this course have been challenging, not just because they demanded me to step outside of what I was familiar with, but they encouraged me to think in new ways because of who my audience was. In each composition I found that I had much higher expectations of myself because I felt like there was a purpose in my writing. My audiences were important to me, therefore, the writing that I produced became much more important than it would have otherwise. I want to remember each of these compositions, and all of them for different reasons. I enjoyed learning about what I am capable of in technologically, I feel like I would be much more comfortable creating a digital document for a future presentation or even in my future classroom. Learning about how to write a professional memorandum bestowed a sense of reality in my mind. I look forward to the challenge of communicating what I feel needs to be done to better the programs within my school district. Lastly, I look forward to remembering the assignment sequence. I hope that one day I will be able to utilize and implement the lesson that I have created in this class.