Prompt #7: How Prepared do you feel in effectively teaching your students in reading? Is this one of your strengths? A weakness? Have you started to plan Common Core Standards? If you have, how is that going? If you haven't, why not? What support do you need?

I have little to no teaching skills in reading. I am not an English teacher, in fact, my class Economics class is meant for students that have demonstrated appropriate comprehension of the English language. However, I do receive students that struggle with understanding certain and have made arrangements to help the student understand the material. Anything from reading the material out load and simplifying it are techniques used to help the student understand the material, but it does not help the student learn how to read much. I do have give notes during class and as they write them I go over what they mean and place them in context. Not many of the notes are full sentences, but the ones that are I definitely read to the class.

I have not started out planning for Common Core Standards. Mostly, because what information they do have does not relate to my subject or what "similar" subject they do have does not sync well with mine. I teach at an alternative school and while I understand that the end goals have to be the same for the district\state, we have differences that I have to keep per student necessities and subject matter.