2. The article states that reading frequently is important. Readers need to understand and retrieve meaning from their readings. Fluency is good, but comprehension is more important for the student learning experience.
3. Teaching strategies that are creative is important because they engage students and involves participate. 
 I believe that the cueing systems play and important role in a student’s learning assessment.
Cueing systems
- Graphophonic: using letter-sound relationships and visual information in the print (sound) Beginner 
-semantic: background knowledge, context clues, and picture clues (recognition) intermediate 
-Syntactic:  using knowledge of language patterns (grammar) Advanced 

Educators who are building a professional learning community recognize that they must work together to achieve their collective purpose of learning for all. Therefore, they create structures to promote a collaborative culture.

The powerful collaboration that characterizes professional learning communities is a systematic process in which teachers work together to analyze and improve their classroom practice. Teachers work in teams, engaging in an ongoing cycle of questions that promote deep team learning.

·       Collaboration with peers. Set up meetings to discuss about what techniques have given the best outcome in students learning. Share ideas, create activities and have schedules that work for student’s success in each subject for secondary and high school grade students. 

·       Taking responsibility for outcome results. What our students have learned will show in formative and summative assessments taking those results as our own will guide us for future lessons. 

2.     Background knowledge is a wonderful tool that can be used throughout all spectrums of education. Background knowledge is what I find myself using each day to create a connection through the language barrier I have with my students when teaching them ESL. Having images on PowerPoints creates opportunities for students to implement background information that is essential to understanding the new words or concepts. 

3.     Managing expectations is important for creating a positive educational environment. When students are lost and confused their effective filter lowers and causes them to have a negative experience. This outcome can be avoided if we set clear expectations through communicating the correct instructions and goals.

 providing relevance for students gives them a context within which they can develop into engaged, motivated and self-regulated learners.

 

Culture of collaboration

Working collaboratively represents best practice and teachers who work in teams, engage in an ongoing cycle of questions that promote deep team learning.

 

Focus on results.

Working together to improve student achievement create great results.

Apply higher order thinking skills, identify current level of student achievement, and establishing a goal.

Focusing in creating lifelong learners rather than teach will create an environment in your class that will help your students become outstanding members in their communities. Also, will harness their interest in learning all aspect of life without seeing it as a drag. It is important to create a fun but safe environment were students can grow academically and personally. 

This essential goes hand by hand with the next essential, vertically and horizontally collaborating with peers. Collaborating across subjects and grade levels further enhance the learning prosses of each student. It will help develop multi-level learning between subject and grade levels. For example, whatever skill the Reading teacher is covering can be use by the Social Studies teacher when implementing the topic that week. 

Lastly, what ties everything together is the last essential, continue analyzing data. By constant monitoring data, teachers can track patterns in where students need more help, re-teach, or find another way to implement the material to the students. Also, by monitoring data, teachers can identify personal areas in need of improvement. This way you create a fool proof plan that will help you and your students reach their own potential.

Teaching is the profession that makes all other profession. This creates the need of constant improving and finding the best strategies for your students and yourself. By adopting essential skills like focusing in learning rather than teaching, collaborating with co-workers, and analyzing your data will help you improve these areas.