Final+Letter+to+my+Teacher

=**__** Final Letter to my Teacher **__** =

April 26, 2011  Dear Mrs. Savur,  First, I would like to thank you so much for welcoming me into your classroom this semester. I have learned so much from you that has changed me as a future teacher. I have learned many different ways to teach lessons watching you that will help me in my career. From History lessons to English lessons I have had the opportunity to witness very different types of teaching methods and will be implementing these styles into the frame of my future classroom. Your history lessons have truly instilled in me a passion for history for the first time in my life. You make the subject come alive for all of the students, which I sincerely wish my teachers did for me. Reading from a textbook never interested me and that was all I did during that section of the day as a student. I now finally have a grasp on the American Revolution that I never had before.  During your preparation time when we would talk about different topics I really appreciated all of your wonderful advice. It has given me many ideas that I cannot wait to use in my own future lesson plans.  You have also taught me many different things that I have been able to connect to the various texts I have read throughout my years at college. For example, during this semester in my literacy class we discussed the Fountas and Pinnell style of literacy. The style expresses that two and a half to three hours of a day should be strictly literacy. I could not comprehend how you could take so much time out of a day to do this. Still, you did exactly that and I thought it was incredible. You use your read aloud to supplement your history lessons. You have also done this with their writing lessons. I knew that I would some how have to double up lessons like this, but I was struggling to find out how. I know other students in my class are envious of Lorien and I because we have the first hand experience.  Thank you so much for everything this semester I truly cannot express how much I appreciate it. Sincerely, Monique Kuhl