C, Part 3
1. “I enjoy writing in my notebook to
explore a memory, moment, or idea.”
“I’ve wondered if I should have made humour
not as a requirement of authentic voice, but a possibility.”
Writing is an important part of not only
learning but life itself. There is an abundance of life to be lived through
writing; as well as an abundance of writing to be done while living. Living and
writing go hand in hand; we run out of memory space in our minds at times; we
become to busy to quickly and forget the things that matter or forget how to
revert back to relaxation and tranquility. What people need to recognize is
that thirty minutes or even five minutes of writing you did while you were on
the
We each bring our own templates, forms and
styles to a pen and paper; just as we each have our own voice. I think
developing your voice when reading aloud or talking in front of the class is a
lot like developing your style of writing; people may tell you its wrong or
this is how you should do it; but if you are not actually made for it or you
don’t sincerely wish to complete it that way; you will never succeed with it.
Developing voice is much like developing one’s own sexuality even; you cannot
have a son and say “son, you are going to grow up to be straight,” if they turn
out to be inherently homosexual, you have now just ruined the life and
development of that child for a long time if not forever. When teaching,
encourage students to find their reader’s voice, simple things like speak
loudly and clearly work, but sometimes modelling what we want to see or hear
works as well. On placement we read a text in different accents and funny
voices, the students loved it and it worked out swimmingly.
3. Carol Jago states that educators are
educating students that the idea of learning is fun but fun is not the goal. I
would have to say she is right; the education system is what you make it to be;
and by you I mean the student. The students are the ones who decide if learning
is fun; as teachers we hope to make it fun in the eyes of the students but
ultimately the fun part is our goal and that is exactly how I would implement
it into my own classroom goals. “My goal class is to make this as fun and as
enjoyable for you as possible while still remembering that we need to walk out
of here at the end of the day knowing that we did something educational. If you
ever walk out of this classroom thinking we didn’t learn anything but you had a
lot of fun, then it is working.” Only in a perfect world or university would
you find individuals saying how they find learning fun. In high school and
elementary school, you are more likely to get “Love that teacher bro!” or “Sick
project man!” rather than “I can’t wait to go home and read that criticism of
Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure, brother!”. I would make every morning story
time and the end of every class refreshing to the students, wishing them a good
day as they leave.
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