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tricia1022

Ohio Resource Center > AdLIT > In Perspective Magazine > Content-Area Vocabulary: A Cri... - 0 views

  • We all want our students to demonstrate newly learned concepts with the words they know as they discuss, write, and visually represent specific topics.
  • In fact, teaching vocabulary in the content areas of mathematics, science, history, and English is not a separate entity from teaching the core understandings of each domain. As Vacca and Vacca (2008) have always stated, words are labels for concepts, and so teaching vocabulary is actually teaching about the ideas they represent.
  • Therefore, in regard to teaching words in any content area, we need to keep in mind that different students will have different levels of understanding about a term and will internalize new information through each successive engagement with the term.
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  • Words representing concepts are not taught in a vacuum, but rather in contexts that illustrate how they are associated with other words and ideas. This feature of word knowledge is at the heart of effective content-area teaching and critical to vocabulary building.
  • These examples show how words and their meanings are intricately related to each other and how these relationships are tied to conceptual understanding. It is important then to help students understand these relationships and connections.
  • We must be very cognizant of how students might interpret a word definition that makes sense to us but may be misleading and confusing to those with less background knowledge.
  • Broadly defined learning opportunities include the incorporation of wide reading in content classes as well as word consciousness. Reading widely about a topic across a variety of texts provides students with multiple exposures to newly learned words along with opportunities for incidental word learning to occur.
  • In addition, broad learning opportunities include the development of word consciousness or awareness, where students learn habits of attending to new and interesting vocabulary that will enable them to acquire appropriate language for communicating in particular content areas (Scott, Skobel, & Wells, 2008; Stahl & Nagy, 2006).
  • by promoting an awareness and enthusiasm for learning new words.
  • The steps include preparation, explanation, application, and reinforcement (P.E.A.R.).
  • Too many targeted words can be overwhelming to students, especially those who struggle with reading.
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  • Such responses are more indicative of learning. Other activities for relating, connecting, clarifying, and applying word meanings are described in Instructional Strategies for Teaching Content Vocabulary, Grades 4–12 (Harmon, Wood, & Hedrick, 2006).
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    This article is a resource for teaching content area vocabulary.
tricia1022

Developing a Scientific Model for Electrical Circuits | Science | Classroom Resources |... - 1 views

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    These segments get to the heart of the conceptual misunderstanding that teachers encounter when attempting to teach simple circuits. It demonstrates some instructional alternatives teachers can use.
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    This is an excellent design for a student-centered inquiry activity. I'd like to revise my introduction to circuits next year to work more like this.
dbrown82

CLOSING THE ACHIEVMENT GAP: BEST PRACTICES IN TEACHING MATHEMATICS - 1 views

http://www.gram.edu/sacs/qep/chapter%204/4_1EducationAlliance.pdf  Education, T. A. (2006). Closing the Achievement Gap: Best Practices In Teaching Mathematics. Charleston, WV: www.educatio...

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Melinda Parsons

On-line course curricula and interactional strategies: The foundation and extensions t... - 2 views

This is an annotated bib for theories on adult education through distance education. Chaves, C. (2009). On-line course curricula and interactional strategies: The foundation and extensions to ad...

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Alison Burns

Knowledge Construction in High School Physics: A Study of Student Teacher Interaction - 2 views

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    "The results of the research provide a different picture of student learning and different strategies for teaching physics. The recommendations are aimed at changes required for improvement in student performance in physics and science in general. "
sdonahey37

Improving Reading in the Primary Grades - 0 views

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    (Week 7: Jessica Carr, Sarah Donahey, and Mark Cook) This journal article is accessible through the link given above by accessing the UMUC library. This article discusses the need for vocabulary and comprehension instruction in the primary grades in order for long-term, adequate reading skills in elementary students. The authors examine research that have been done on primary grades in order to closely examine the reading skills that are needed for elementary-aged students. Reading outside of school, vocabulary, word-reading skills, conceptual knowledge, and comprehension strategies are the instructional approaches that the authors believe need to be taught in the primary grades in order for long-term goals to be met. Teachers can implement the instructional strategies being encouraged in this article, in their own practice. Teachers can also encourage reading outside of school for homework to help improve reading skills among their students. References: Block, K., M., & Duke, K., N. (2012). Improving reading in the primary grades. The Future of Children, 22(2), 55-72. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/23317411?seq=1&cid=pdf-reference#references_tab_contents
mmaclin

Metacognition Math - 0 views

(Week 9: Maia and Shawntel) http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.umuc.edu/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&sid=e170a0cb-a31d-4969-a5e3-cb7f75039f80%40sessionmgr4008 This journal article is accessible ...

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mmaclin

Metacognition Math - 0 views

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    (Week 9: Shawntel & Maia) This journal article can be accessed through UMUC's library. The focus of the article was to investigate the impact of linguistics in the process of solving math word problems. The article describes as study analysis of the influence of the number of steps and operations as variables that need to be utilized by learners when solving math word problems. The study used a combination of math word problems where some had consistent language and some had inconsistent language. Both focus groups were given the same questions; however, one group the instructor focused on metacognitive strategies to assist with reading comprehension. The group who were taught metacognitive strategies highly outscored the other group. The study showed that effective teaching strategies require the inclusion of metacognitive and self-regulating processes. The article strongly argues that conceptual understanding in mathematics is highly interrelated with reading comprehension. The article discusses three main components of learning, which are cognition, metacognition, and motivation. In other words, reading comprehension equips students with the confident ability to connect previous concepts to current processes the resolve issues on their own. Our group focused on the understood definition of reading comprehension as obtaining the meaning of what has been read based on readers' previous knowledge or background information in order to continue. Therefore, reading comprehension is the most important factor to improving student success when developing strategies to solving math word problems. This article was used to support teacher strategies when facilitating group work. The students were placed in small, mixed groups to discuss the videos to solve a math word problems as suggested in the article. During their collaborative work, the teacher developed more specific metacognitive questions to focus on reading comprehension and not the math technique.
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