Philosophies about teaching literacy:
I interviewed a 7th grade language arts teacher. She felt that teaching literacy can be very rewarding because you can watch students make such huge gains in such a short amount of time, but then frustrating at the same time because as a teacher all you want to do is help. Some students are unwilling to accept this help, and as a teacher, you can't do it all for them. They have to do it for themselves as well.
She also stated that literacy is never mastered and is something that can continue to be built on throughout a students education.
She has many different types of instruction to help students learn to read and write. One benefit is that she has another teacher with her at all times and they team teach. She believes this benefits the kids because there is more then one adult in the room and the teacher is not thinly spread. Students get more one on one attention and therefore seem to perform better on tasks and assessments.
She feels that literacy is the foundation for all other subjects.
The following link is a teaching philosophy that I read and felt that is was an excellent philosophy to have on literacy. I wanted to share it, because I thought it was so great!
http://v_clinton.tripod.com/teach/id5.html
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