Teachers Are To Blame For the Reading Habits Children Develop

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Williams Martin. How to encourage students to read for pleasure: teachers share their top tips. The Guardian, June 3, 2014. /teacher-network/teacher-blog/2014/jun/03/how-to-encourage-students-read-for-pleasure-teacher-top-tips. Accessed December 11, 2017.
Some teachers want to get the best out of their students and believe that work, work, and more work will get their students more interested. However, Williams is against this notion or idea and in this article, he provides tips on how teachers can make their lessons interesting while also encouraging their students to read more. Motivation to read as Williams notes tends to decrease with age but he also seems to imply that teachers play a role in making this happen. Teachers ought to make learning interesting and for this to happen, the author believes that they have to change their approach and involve the students. They ought to keep the children guessing and avoid making the class a cliché of old ways of teaching. As part of his agenda to help teachers improve their strategies and improve their students as well, Williams also provides several tips to help teachers make their classes interesting while also making reading interesting.
Rachael, Levy. Young Children Reading. London: Sage Publications, 2011. Internet resource.
It is indeed essential to create a reading culture in children. Teachers and parents alike try to use various methods to help create a need for books in children. However, in her book, Rachael Levy seems to believe that some of the methods being employed could be helping to destroy the curiosity in children and making them less interested in reading. Children work best when they are being engaged in the reading process. However, the need to churn competent and able students whose IQ is unmatched often pushes teachers and parents to institute certain methods which could be counterproductive. Children need to be nurtured and their reading skills built. Levy is interested in unearthing the ways in which the current curriculum could be pushing children away from reading. She affirms that the literary landscape is slowly changing and teachers need to change their tactics as well.
Stiptek D. How do Teachers’ Expectations Affect Student Learning? Education.com, July 20, 2010. /reference/article/teachers-expectations-affect-learning/. Accessed December 11, 2017.
In the article How do Teachers’ Expectations Affect Student Learning, Stiptek seems to want to tackle an interesting topic. His assertions are indeed valid and he borrows from valid research to build his arguments. Teachers’ beliefs about students often go a long way in affecting how students perceive and the attitudes they develop in their studies. While some reactions might seem subtle and thought to have less impact on the students, they do indeed affect and determine the attitudes they develop while in school. Stiptek talks about actions such as smiling and nodding, which might seem to be of little bearing to how students develop but do greatly affect how students end up perceiving different subjects. He continues to explain that at times, even well-meaning behaviors can also negatively impact a...