In a message dated 7/11/2007 1:47:50 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We want to do what we feel is best for
kids, but change is hard and scary.
On that note, a few weeks ago a some posters mentioned that it would be
great if future teachers knew about teaching children how to read and
comprehend before they got in the classroom. I mentioned I had an undergrad
comprehension class this summer. For many of the students in the class, this
is their
last class and they will be doing their student teaching in September or
January. They have signed onto the listserv and they are ready, a few a week,
to
post their questions.
Today in class we read Philip Pullman's Isis lecture and talked about
the following quote regarding teachers new to the profession,
"These young people are tigers born in cages, and kept caged until they
think that being caged is a natural condition; and they look down at
themselves,
and they see their magnificent stripes, and the only way they can understand
them is to think that they themselves must be made of bars: they are their own
cage; they dare not move outside the little space they occupy. But they are
tigers still, if only they knew."
This is a wonderful group of future teachers and I told them today they are
tigers. I am hoping that by participating in this list, they will never have
bars to shed. If perhaps you don't want to participate in responding to them,
most of their email addresses will have @wayne.edu in them, so you can just
hit the delete button.
Thanks for helping out.
Sincerely,
Nancy Creech
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