RL3: Improving Student Learning

Striking a balance of pedagogy and content for every learner is a goal and a challenge for educators. High-quality teaching begins when teachers understand where students need to go with their learning, and are able to take them there when each student is ready (Managing). Monitoring students learning is extremely important so you can determine student’s current level of understanding, plan instruction, and respond to student’s needs. Without monitoring, when would you know if students have learned what you have taught them? If you know right away how much students have learned, you can help struggling students get back on track as quickly as possible.
Currently, eighth grade Language Arts classes at Wilson Middle School are working on Common Core Standards: RL2: Determine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to the characters, setting, and plot; provide an objective summary of the text, RL3: Analyze how particular lines of dialogue or incidents in a story or drama propel the action reveal aspects of a character, or provoke a decision, and W2: Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and …show more content…
Wilson Middle School is working diligently to improve students reading comprehension. In doing so, Wilson requires students to read one hundred and seventy pages independently a week, and language arts classes are required to do a minimum of one novel per unit. Good reading comprehension comes only with practice. The basic aspects of reading, such as word recognition, phonetics and fluency, can be mastered in just a few years (Improving). Good reading comprehension is necessary for academic