Week 2 Assignment 2

Reflection on the Video

Shelia Owen teaches a diverse group of second graders. Students who come from different backgrounds. Some students arrive at school with a vast vocabulary and other come with very minimum previous knowledge. Shelia develops her classroom around the needs of each individual student. In her classroom there is daily routine of read out loud, shared reading, guided reading and independent reading. This allow the student to experience less and less of the help of the teacher and be able to do more by themselves. Read out loud is all the teacher’s role. Reading books that are above their level. This stimulates discussion and model’s language. Then goes to shared reading where the role of the teacher decreases and the role of the student increase. By guided reading the teacher is there to guide them but the students do much of the work of their own. The teacher is still there to support them and scaffold, but they are really starting to do the work on their own. By the time they reach independent reading the students do all the work and the teacher is just there watching them. Shelia also does two writing activities daily. Interactive writing which allows the student to create text together that they have discussed and then there is also independent writing where the student get to express themselves. At the end of the video Shelia states that she wants her students to learn not because its school and they must rather because they love to read and enjoy reading themselves.  As a teacher I think this is a very important that are students shouldn’t just learn because they have to rather, they should internalize a love for the subject and want to do it on their own.