Everyone can read... with the right techniques!

The first article that I read was the Pinnell article. It was wonderful for a future educator to read because it encourages teachers to "learn about learning." The teacher that they used in the article as an example, used many strategies in her classroom that helped her students with reading. The article firsts discusses how it is important to observe your students and study their interests in order to create lessons that promote their interests in reading. The articles also stresses the importance of testing out theories with your students and implementing them into areas of your classroom. A good teacher will never know if an idea will work or not unless they are willing to try. If the idea fails, it is important not to get defeated. The articles also talks about how it is important to enjoy reading and writing with your students, and make it enjoyable for them.
The second article that I read was, Excellent Reading Teachers. In the article, it provides many examples and ideas of what excellent reading teachers do in their classrooms. The beginning of the article contains a six point checklist of what excellent teachers do. I think that two of these items really stuck out to me. Excellent teachers know a variety of methods of how to teach reading. They know which methods to use on which children and what strategies will work and which ones will not.  They are also good reading "coaches". They are able to help their students learn techniques and strategies in the areas they need the most help with. I think that this was a great article, because it reminded me to remain open minded and flexible about not only reading instruction, but every other aspect of the classroom as well.
Question to consider: When you have been teaching for a few years, do you think for yourself as an educator, that it would be beneficial to take refresher courses on teaching reading?