Teacher Reflection #2

10/5/20

So, this is take 2 of reflection #2. I didn’t address the prompt which asked me to speak to the literature that has influenced my masters journey. My research has definitely gotten more refined over time. I have learned a great many ways of organizing my materials. Each class has helped me to organize and refine my ideas and research. Taking a research class right now, is really difficult because of the amount of work. The benefit is that Dr. Sung’s class literature meshes well with Dr. Vitali’s reflection class. I am building a database of practitioner research that integrates social justice and literacy issues.

Dr. Mary Rice’s class on literacy leadership, helped me focus on materials and strategies for helping ELLs. An article we read by Bonnie Norton, “Identity, Literacy, and English-Language Teaching”, gave me an “ah ha” moment. That is, what is affective literacy? Her focus is that “children should have the opportunity to construct meaning with a wide variety of multimodal texts, including visual, written, spoken, auditory, and performative texts.” I believe that affective literacy is based on engagement. Literacy engagement needs to look and “feel” different depending on one’s students. A multiliteracy approach that embraces individual’s community stories.