Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies For Middle School Aged Students With Specific Learning Disabilities

Teaching is not merely about methods used and material presented in the classroom, but about shaping students’ lives to help them construct a firm foundation for a successful future. I desire to teach my students basic life skills as well as challenge them to set and reach their highest goals.

By implementing this idea in Area Two schools to support special education students, we will create a more data driven approach to increasing student achievement. By following this idea the team will also do a better job of implementing professional development and mentorships that greatly increase teacher effectiveness. The idea will also increase understanding of the diversity of the schools and promote community involvement by establishing more open communication with the parents and the community to support their students’ needs. The leadership teams will work together to set goals and objectives to support achievement in all grade levels. They will develop a framework for good communication between teachers and leaders so there is

Goals for me as a teacher include being attentive to the students needs, promoting consistent structure with play, and to encourage empathetic teaching like questions such as, “ Why do you think he is sad?” Also, attending to signs of trauma and providing support to children with an excess amount of stress is

Teachers never have enough time to accomplish all of the things that they are responsible for during a day. However, it is important for them to have personal performance goals formulated around managing, engaging, and growing students. Establishing goals and working on them systematically throughout the school year with guidance from administration allows for professional growth throughout the school building. One of my many take-aways from the book Leverage Leadership was that great teachers use data driven instruction, receive a lot of feedback, and consistently focus on short and long-term performance goals (Bambrick-Santoyo, 2012).

My personal objectives for teaching is to connect the dots for the students when they learn new things and find ways to integrate what they knew and continuing to learn (Moran, Burson & Conrad,

Love, N., Stiles, K., Mundry, S., & DiRanna, K. (2008). The data coach’s guide to improving

A driving objective for a teacher is to affect students to advance their expertise in education by finding them the correct course. The teacher should promote positive motivation and inspiration by adhering to legislation and codes of practice which will increase every student’s focus in developing and bridging gaps to display eagerness towards a healthy broad mindset, creative thinking and brighter approach. A mentor should coordinate assessments which will reinforce the ability to perceive individuals’ abilities and knowledge progressions and moreover support them further to boost their learning capacity to acquire a well-established national standards skill set.

These goals are important for students.

My overarching goal is to complete the educational leadership program successfully and publish my dissertation. Additionally, I plan to publish a few conceptual articles before I complete the program and I hope to be involved in at least two collaborative studies during my time at Penn State University.

In the article Aims, Goals and Objectives, Nel Noddings states that “Aims are used not only to derive goals and objectives but also to evaluate them.” (Noddings, Aims, Goals and Objectives, 2007). She also believes that educational aims should be directed towards making the lives of everyone full and satisfying as opposed to changing all people into members of the educational elite (Noddings, Aims, Goals and Objectives, 2007). Reflecting on these points has brought up a facet of the aims argument that I had not previously considered and has helped me identify areas for improvement in my teaching career. In the paragraphs that follow, I will first provide a summary of the article that details the author’s main ideas and key points and then I

The courses I took during my completion of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Master of’ Education Program with a concentration on Advance Special Education have granted me with a wide range of special education knowledge. Through the special education courses, I have strengthened my ability to differentiate instruction, meet the needs of my dives learners through research based interventions, as well as assess their growth. The leadership courses have taught me the abilities to lead and excel in the education field. They have open the possibilities to venture onto new horizons where I may be able to lead as a special education representative no matter the course I take in

As a teacher, I will try to enrich the minds of students. I want them to understand the importance of education. I hope to serve as a role model and gain respect from all of my pupils. I trust that my teaching strategies will be inspiring, and my dedication and passion for teaching obvious. I hope that after every successful year of teaching I develop a feeling of satisfaction. I want my students to have an understanding of education and a positive outlook on life. I hope that by my passion for teaching I will have an impact on my students. I want them to walk away with a continuing eagerness and motivational drive to learn and advance.

Schools are organizations that operate to educate students under the supervision of teachers. Like any other organization, leaders of a school are expected to have a clear sense of the school’s (organization’s) vision, mission and values. The special education directors are the leaders that need to have a good understanding of not only the special education law and policy (Federal, state and local) but also know their district’s strategic goals, systems and processes that are aligned with achieving the goals. Schools have major subsystems, such as departments, programs, divisions, teams, etc. Each of these subsystems has a way of doing things to, along with other subsystems; achieve the overall goals of the district. These systems and processes are defined by plans, policies and procedures. Effective school leaders have a solid understanding of what the district level expectations and resources are and what their specific building needs to succeed.

Strategies of improving prosody in order to increase reading comprehension has been a concept in which I have been struggling with in order to better assist my first grade students. I began this process thinking that I needed to have the students look at the punctuation and text features within the text, as well as the pictures to better assist them with their understanding of the text. I feel as though many students rush to complete the readings quickly without an understanding of the words that are being read. I have begun to realize that the students are familiar with testing for the rate of fluency so often that I need to address other reasons for reading and the strategies that should be implemented before they begin reading the text. While I understand the importance of reading with automaticity and the skill development involved with addressing punctuation, reading with expression and meaning should also be a focus of reading development. During my research, I realized the topic of prosody needs to be clearly defined, although its importance to reading comprehension is unclear. I have also come to the realization that the methods I am implementing within the classroom are consistent with current literacy research. This research includes both traditional and new literacy methods.

My motives for becoming a teacher, the roles/jobs of a teacher and students, My goals I want to achieve, The goals I want to achieve are making every student’s parent’s happy and giving the students the best education and I want them to want them to come to school and be engaged in the class.