Professional Explorations in Reading

Regie Routman is a renowned international educator who has been working or the past many years in order to come up with possible ways of improving literacy instruction. She has been able to a lot in the field of literacy. She has impacted many positively, through providing ways through which one can be able to read and write without any problems at all (Routman, 2014). As an experienced class teacher, Regie has been able to understand the problems which most students tend to face, thus limiting them from being able to achieve greater heights. She has used different approaches in order to be able to support students who are usually regarded as slow learners. Regie’s efforts have been noticed, after she was able to help a lot of people, who thought they could not be able to make it in the field of education. She therefore provides both the students and the teachers with proper ways of studying and teaching respectively. This has therefore made her to be able to achieve her dreams of improving and changing the perception of most people towards those students who are usually regarded as slow learners. Regie has also been able to write different books, since is an author, most of which are good at improving the concentration of students, and teaching them proper reading and revising habits. In addition, she has also been able to come up with books which are responsible for providing teachers with skills of effectively passing knowledge to their students regardless of whether they are slow learners or first learners.

Regie has come up with a digital based literacy project which represents her teaching demonstrations in schools, and it therefore seeks to improve literacy development needs among different students (Routman, 2014). This project is known as Regie’s residence, and it has therefore been able to boost students’ achievements in schools across Canada and the US. This has therefore seen students being able to perform better, through raising their scores. She is currently for other areas where she can be able to help students to achieve higher grades. In addition, those who participate in her residencies, are able to understand ways through which they can be able to teach and asses the activities which take place within the curriculum.

Through the use of ideal learning model, teachers have become skillful in exploiting demonstrations and other types of shared experiences (Routman, 2014). This therefore allows them to be able to handover responsibilities to students, which can easily allow them to be able practice as independent work. Moreover, it has also enabled teachers to be more confident, particularly when handling topics which seem to be very hard, and thus making it easier for them to break the topics down, hence providing the students with an easy way of understand such topics. In addition, teachers therefore make it easier for students to be able to read, understand and even concentrate, due to the teaching techniques which they have been able to incorporate. Most students have therefore found it easy to read, since they are taught in a manner which seeks to allow them to be able to enjoy the lessons, thus gaining interest in reading, a move which translates into improved grades.

            The techniques which Regie uses are therefore able to impact both teachers and students, thus making them to be the most effective. Regie has therefore been able to change the perception of most teachers, that the ability to be able to understand what one reads and perform better, is a gift. She has been able to change this perception through providing possible ways through which teachers can be able to pass knowledge effectively to the student (Routman, 2014). Most people tend to say that reading is one thing, and passing the exams and understanding what one reads is an attitude. This is however not the case with Regie, as she believes that the brain of all human beings can be able to understand each and everything they read. The main problem may therefore be the things which alter a person from effectively reading, thus liming the person from being able to understand what he or she is actually reading.

Regie, therefore believes that if a student is in class, then there is nothing which is likely to affect the concentration of the student. This is therefore the work of the teacher to make sure that he or she passes the knowledge to the students in such a way that they can all be able to understand. A teacher need not therefore concentrate on some students, particularly those who perform better, as opposed to those who perform poorly (Routman, 2014). A teacher may affect the students understanding, through using methods which might make it hard for the student to be able to understand. If some students understand whatever a teaching is teaching, then this does not mean that those who do not understand are slow learners. The teacher may be having teaching problems, which make it hard for the students to be able to understand the message being passed to them.

Regie has therefore been able to transform teaching through linking the connections between reading and writing. She therefore advises teachers to develop beliefs that their students can be able to achieve more than what they are currently achieving. This consequently motivates most teachers thus making them to advise their students on how to read effectively and how to also understand whatever they are reading (Routman, 2014). In addition, teachers are also given techniques through which they can be able to make it easier for students to be able to read and understand the topics. There are those subjects such as mathematics, which are usually perceived to be very hard by most students, a thing which consequently makes them to fail in mathematics. Teachers need therefore advice their students how to be able to perform better in those subjects which are perceived to be very hard particularly by their peers, hence making them not to even read due to the perceptions that they have regarding those subjects.

Through the use of Regies Optimal Learning Model, teachers can be able to plan their lessons, and asses their ways of teaching without any problems at all. Teachers can therefore be able to understand where they have not been able to teach in the right way, thus changing their teaching habits in order to improve the understanding of the students (Routman, 2014). Moreover, the model aims at improving the independence of the students, thus making them to rely more on themselves than on their teachers. If students are able to rely on themselves than on the teachers, then they can be able to achieve more, since this will make them to easily understand whatever they will be reading. This has therefore seen most students being able to read ahead of the teacher, thus making them to understand whatever the teacher will teaching. Moreover, the levels of performance have also improved, since most students have been able to change their perceptions against education, thus striving in order to pass highly.

Through the use of responsive teaching by teachers, the levels of performance of students have also gone up, since most students now understand why they have to study (Routman, 2014). They have therefore given up on things which tend to limit them from concentrating in their studies, hence focusing on improving their grades. Most teachers have therefore been able to improve their relationships with students, hence being able to easily provide support particularly when students find it hard to solve certain problems. Students have therefore been motivated by teachers to work very hard, in order to be able to achieve greater heights in future.

Teachers also apply new ideas, in order to enable students to be able to read effectively to also understand what their obstacles are (Routman, 2014). This has therefore helped in making most students to be able to avoid involving themselves in things which might make them to lose focus. These things may therefore include peer pressure, whereby students tell others that education is not everything in life, thus making them not to see the need in working hard. Students have now been able to incorporate new techniques into their ways of learning, which allow them to be able to understand how to read effectively, and how to avoid their obstacles.

Reference

Routman, R. (2014). Read, write, lead: Breakthrough strategies for schoolwide literacy success.