Alexa RedekerAlexa Redeker is a freshman in Elementary Education from Naperville, Illinois. She is pursuing an endorsement in ESL and would ideally like to teach in a third grade classroom after college. Her favorite animal is a dolphin and she enjoys watching the show “The Office” in her free time. She was placed at the Don Moyer Boys and Girls club as a reading tutor which she loved due to her passion of reading and working with children. She is also a part of a social sorority, Alpha Omicron Pi, as well as a teaching fraternity, Epsilon Delta.
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Student Voices with Alexa Redeker
On Setting Semester Goals
At my placement, I would like to focus on being more patient with my students as well as make sure that they are improving in their reading skills. Aside from simply improving their skills, I would also like to inspire them to want to read by being more enthusiastic. It is one thing to be good at reading, and it is another thing to be good at reading and wanting to read. Students need to have a desire to read and learn otherwise they will not enjoy school, and that is what I would want for every child as a future educator.
I am setting these goals for myself because I feel that they will help me to become a better educator and person overall. I feel that by becoming more patient and enthusiastic, that I will take that into my everyday life as well as into the classroom when I have my own someday.
I am setting these goals directed at my students because I feel that it is unfair that they have fallen this far behind in their reading skills. While it is great that they are now getting the help that they need to get to the appropriate reading level, it is still sad to see how behind they are. I want to work towards making them more enthusiastic about reading as well as improve their reading skills because they deserve it.
I think that one goal that could be set for the Boys and Girls Club would be to make the club more accessible for those that do not speak English as their first language. I feel that they would have a great attendance of children and families after school if they had more staff members that could speak other languages. This would make it an even more approachable place than it already it and that would make this great organization even more marketable.
I am setting these goals for myself because I feel that they will help me to become a better educator and person overall. I feel that by becoming more patient and enthusiastic, that I will take that into my everyday life as well as into the classroom when I have my own someday.
I am setting these goals directed at my students because I feel that it is unfair that they have fallen this far behind in their reading skills. While it is great that they are now getting the help that they need to get to the appropriate reading level, it is still sad to see how behind they are. I want to work towards making them more enthusiastic about reading as well as improve their reading skills because they deserve it.
I think that one goal that could be set for the Boys and Girls Club would be to make the club more accessible for those that do not speak English as their first language. I feel that they would have a great attendance of children and families after school if they had more staff members that could speak other languages. This would make it an even more approachable place than it already it and that would make this great organization even more marketable.