What I've Learned So Far

1)  I've learned how to encourage first graders or at least an important quality that is needed when encouraging them in order for them to be motivated to learn and work, which is enthusiasm.  I need to have good energy when tutoring, teaching, or helping the children in order for them to do their work with the same energy.  A teacher must show their first grader that they want to work with them and when a teacher has that mentality and enthusiasm, it will be easier for both the teacher and the student to enjoy the process. 
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3)  The research that helped me perform this way with the first graders was the article:  "TEACHERS' LEISURE READING HABITS AND KNOWLEDGE OF CHILDREN'S BOOKS: DO THEY RELATE TO THE TEACHING PRACTICES OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHERS?." BURGESS, STEPHEN R., STEPHAN SARGENT, and MELINDA SMITH. Reading Improvement 48.2 (2011): 88-102. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 9 Sept. 2011.  

The way it helped me was in how it made me realize an important element on encouragement, which was the motivation and love behind the encouragement.  In the articl, it said "It seems reasonable to hypothesize that teachers who possess more favorable literacy altitudes and behaviors will be more effective in encouraging studetns to read and in teaching them to read."  It may have been for reading, but I believe it qualifies for everything one teaches.