Lessons Learned

I love listening to people who LOVE teaching!

There are so many people in the world who ask why anyone would ever go into teaching that it so refreshing to watch people who love it and have devoted there life to it.

These enthusiastic educators make me want to be a great and passionate teacher that can make children love learning.

With that said, Dr. Jacobs was just one of those people who LOVE teaching.

Here are tidbits that I learned from his lecture on Education and Literacy

to my TELL 430 class:

We can make kids smarter if we get them CURIOUS

(idea came from Henry B. Eyring)

You need to find books that students want to read

What do you do as a teacher if you don't know what subjects your students are interested in?

Give them options to choose from,

Expose them to different topics,

Give them books that you think are GOOD. You will be passionate

about that book and they will probably think it's good too!

Make literacy a reward for students

(with just a few extra moments in class, get the students excited to hear a new story)

Make literacy relate to the real world

(news, family relations, etc.)

Use books that touch their heart and interest (their affect) and not books that just deliver information (their cognition)

You don't have to read a whole book to students. Just the part that you think is interesting.

The best thing to help reading, writing, thinking and speaking is READING.

Most importantly?

If people read regularly and widely then they will become educated.

It's as easy as that.