If I was going to try out book club in my future classroom there are many things that I would need to make sure I had in order. For me, I think the first thing I would need support in is the assessment portion of book club. While I don't think assessment is the most important thing in the classroom, I think it is important to have a reason why you are doing something, as well as making sure your students are growing and developing from what you are teaching them. Like it says in chapter 6, " student's literacy performance levels are the focus of both politicians and the media and continue to be of fundamental concern to primary teachers," (page 82). I think it would be important to make sure you had age appropriate materials, have a clear goal in mind, and make it fun. It says in the book that teachers should have clear goals, both teacher and students should have a clear sense of their curricular goals and both teacher and student should have ownership of the assessment process (page 82). I think it is important to keep all of these in mind while creating your curriculum. I think you would need support in making sure all of the materials are lined up with the benchmarks and standards, but more importantly for me I think it is important to find resources that the kids can relate too and things they are interested. I am a big believer that kids go a lot farther with information if it is something they can relate too. I am not saying that everytime every single kid is going to personally relate to the subject, but if you try to get a general variety of subjects you are most likely going to hit everyone.
The good thing is I see this going on in my CT's classroom today. She is always encouraging kids to be themselves and be proud of the things they like. My CT and I are always walking around talking to the kids asking them what they did on the weekend, what types of books they like to read, etc. Anything we can do to get to know our students better.
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