Adam’s Blog Currins 545

 This is a topic that I have become interested in during my short time thus far as a student teacher.  That topic is how to teach literacy to students who have fallen substantially behind according to grade level expectations. My current position is in an English class that teaches 11th grade students at Obama school for career and technical education.  I have mentioned this in this weeks discussion post, but most of my students are substantially behind their expected literacy grade level.  I cannot say for sure what level they are currently at, suffice to say it is not even in the ballpark of what I had expected (expectations that I do not believe were unreasonably high).  I will not assume what the cause(s) of these literacy levels to be or generalize that all students face the same issues.  I have worked with multiple students that seem genuinely interested in trying to learn the topics and assignments required of them, but struggle with even the initial...

 Hello, my name is Adam and I am currently in the final year of earning my Post-Bacc and licensure to teach English for 4th-12th grade.  Many of you who might be reading this have been in class with me for the last 2 semesters, but for the others I'll give you a quick rundown of what has brought me to this point on the off chance you are interested. I graduated from the University of Iowa just over a decade ago and have spent most of the time since then managing bars and restaurants in both Iowa City and here in Milwaukee.  For a number of reasons I decided about 18 months ago that I wanted a change and immediately applied for entrance to UWM's school of education.   More than anything I have realized that, for me at least, making a positive impact in people's lives and in my overall community is the name of the game, for which restaurant management was unfulfilling.  In the last year I have met so many like minded people as both fellow students and instruc...