Learning Log: Activity 2

Teaching is like a war for me and my students. I teach SPED English for LD students. Students who have low attention span and have trouble reading and writing. The authoring cycle reminds me of the new movie "Freedom Writers". A wonderful and inspiring movie about a realistic teacher who teaches. The way she teaches her class is like the authoring cycle in which each student use reading and writing to observe and tell about their world. They inquire about their world as they work through personal issues and reach out to explore new ideas and questions.
My students need opportunities to write and read. The Authoring Cylce presents many ways for my students to learn what they are writing or reading about. Ways such as writing letters, taking notes, reflecting, oberving, illustrating, writing, editing, and publishing. The Athoring Cycle offer them many different types of opportunities that I think would actually work. It would actually work in ways that is different from traditional teaching and this is what my students need. A different way were reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing, and representation are taught effectively not passively.
I think it would benefit my students in ways that the cycle would co exist with their ESLRS as well as SOE conceptual framework: Knowledgeable Scholar, Effective Communicator, Reflective Decision-Maker for personal, profesional, and social growth. This is one way that we as educators can teach our students to be active learners. A cycle where many techniques and subjects could be incorporated into a themati lesson not just for the classroom but with the school motto as well.