Reflective Analysis of Language Arts Teaching

  After discussing the seven principles of language arts instruction with a grade 4 teacher, she stated that she belief that all the principles can be a great help to both teachers and learners both inside and outside the classroom.  She stated that she would normally use principle 1,2,5 and 6, recently she has learnt about principle 3 – the strands from the new and enhance curriculum that the ministry of education had implemented. She rarely used principle 4, which she would start using more in the future. Principle 7 was new to her, she never really taught about having pupils explore different types of literature, she had them read whatever they wanted to or what is in the curriculum. After discussing this principle and highlighting the benefits she would start incorporating it in her classroom.  She further stated that these principles help to guide her when planning and delivering her lesson especially when catering for the different types of learners, it also improve...

  Principles 7 Language arts instruction should center on quality literature.   Huck (1992) defined literature as the imaginative shaping of life and thought into the forms and structures of language….(through the subjects of) human conditions; feelings, thought, and insights.  As language art teacher we should expose our pupils to various forms of literature such as comic strips, newspaper, poems, stories, magazines etc., these will help pupils discover new knowledge, transform their understanding of world and view of reality. I can incorporate this principle into my classroom by encouraging pupils to read, having various forms of literature in my reading area and having 10 minutes reading sessions where pupils choose different reading materials and read for fun. This will help build their vocabulary, help them develop reasoning skills, problem solving skill and think critically.  This is a great principle that will be implemented in my language art classroom. ...

  Introduction  This analysis consists of  A reflection on the principles of language art instruction in my teaching and how it positively affected the outcome of my deliveries in language art classroom.  An assessment on the effects of the principles that I have never considered in my teaching experience and examples of how I incorporate the principles in my Language Arts classroom. Briefly description on teacher’s perspective of language art Instruction. Principles that are evident in my teaching Principle 1 Language arts classroom must be positive, comfortable and challenging environments and class in which student learn concepts that they value.  Classroom should be child friendly, and student centered. Pupils should be comfortable to express themselves at any time. This will allow pupils to asked questions and make mistake; they would not feel ashamed or shy when doing so. As a teacher, I always try to make my pupils feel free to express themselves in the c...