What Do We Mean By Literacy Now?

What I found most interesting from this week's readings was the explanation of multiple literacies. This article could really change the way you think about literacy. It makes sense to me now to say that different cultural groups have different ways of making meaning. Therefore, different cultural groups teach literacy in different ways to their children. Literacy has come to mean different things to different groups of people. So, my student's parents may define literacy totally different from how I now define literacy. After all, I use to think of literacy as simply being able to read and write.

Goal Setting

My goal this year is to implement more engaging strategies in my classroom  as well as putting more rigor into my lessons across all content areas. I would like to teach so that each student achieves the grade level objectives. Engaging students in learning makes school more interesting and connects learning to the real world. Hopefully, if I can include more activities that engage students, it will help them to think on a higher level and even change the way they process information.