I found that, even though I consider myself an avid reader, that I had some trouble with some of the passages that these teachers used to challenge their students. As I continued through the chapter, I found that I recalled myself thinking the same way as the students. For example, on page 284 of the text where a student is calling out the teacher for the teacher expecting them to “know what they know and know what they don’t know.” I remember thinking with the same reasoning in middle and high school about my teachers that would say that. Now as a future educator and a college student, I understand the value of self-monitoring now, simply because it is a necessary skill. College professors do not baby you and that is either a make it or break it point for students in my opinion. As a future teacher, I hope I can break my students for relying on me for the answer, but instead, get them invested enough that they want to find it for themselves. Achieving that will require me to use the strategies in this chapter, by assessing where my students are on their reading levels, and building the type of relationship with my students where they are comfortable to ask me to explain a text and walk them through it.
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