Dispositions of Intellectual

What does it mean to be an intellectual learner? If I were to put it into my own terms, I would say that it means thinking critically about learning, that in order to be an intellectual learner we have to question our learning and how we learn and how our students will learn best. As a future teacher we have to take into consideration the environment that we are teaching in, that in order to have a successful pedagogy we have to think how are students will learn. This means that we can't just walk into a classroom and teach the same pedagogy to every classroom environment. That is unfair to the students and to me, because I am not challenging them or myself in their learning. One of the best gifts I think we can give our students is for them to become a disposition researcher/learner, that they have the mentality to think about texts in a way that is more than what meets the eye, that they are able to research and think critically. Honestly, that is what I think I am going to take away most from this class. BE CRITICAL. It is vital to any English class, we have the power with texts to question what is in front of us, not everything is set in stone, the world, I believe is meant to be questioned. It's up to us as teachers to let our students know that it is ok to question. In fact, we have to model our own questioning of texts to our students.