In Chapter 1 of our text, we learn that content area teachers need to assist students in knowing how to think with text in order to respond to, discover, organize, retrieve, and elaborate on information and ideas they encounter in content learning situations. However, content literacy practices do not diminish the teacher's role as a subject matter specialist. Instead, reading is a tool that students use to construct, clarify, and extend meaning in a given discipline. What were two specific teaching strategies that you found particularly helpful for you (in this chapter) as you set forth to incorporate reading into your content area classes?
A strategy that I found interesting was the text-based collaborative learning. With this strategy, students can interact with one another around a variety of texts, helping themselves and other students learn. Another strategy I found helpful was using a technology component in learning/teaching. With this, technology is used as a tool along with a topic of literacy.
ReplyDeleteTwo forms of teaching strategies that I found particularly help were new literacies and content literacy. Overall, in todays world it is almost impossible to not have some form of technology incorporated into your life. There shouldn't be a difference within the classroom. Before expanding on new literacies, I personally like how the book describes content literacies, where it is beyond pen and paper, but is described as a general understanding and the ability to also talk and listen within a content area. Applying this definition to new literacies and the way technology is advancing, I would find that it allows, as a science major, anyone to perform experiments almost anywhere at the touch of a button. On the downside, students would not be able to experience these experiments in a real setting.
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