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Reflection Chapters 10-15/LDavis

Writing in the Content Areas
Just as reading is a thinking process, writing is a student’s thinking in print (Koppelman, 2017, p.176). 
  • Informal Writing~ draft stage writing, quick or brief responses; examples include: exit tickets, journal entries, quick writes, etc
  • Formal Writing~Essays, analysis including lengthy projects that are usually evaluated through rubric 
Technology in the Content Areas
  • Connecting disciplines
  • Making topics more real
  • Encourages collaboration
  • Promotes inquiry and data sharing
  • Encourages higher level thinking
  • Deepens understanding of research
  • Encourages questions, not answers
  • Promotes inquiry
  • Social context learning
  • Encourages discussion at a variety of levels


Critical and Creative Thinking
  • Problem based learning
  • Real life investigations
  • 1st person experiences
  • Inquiring minds
  • Oral history project



Poetry, Music, Drama, and Art


  • Poetry

    • Acrostic
    • Cinquain
    • Diamante
    • Definition poems
  • Music
    • Repetition
    • Collaboration
    • Rapping for review
    • Lyric summaries
  • Drama
    • Dinner party
    • Meeting of the minds
    • Snapshots of history
    • Living newspaper theater
  • Art
    • In my mind’s eye
    • Electronic picture books made by students
    • Electronic alphabet books by students
    • Student authored information books
    • transmediations




Assessment, Evaluation, and Reporting
We have made great strides from the banking model of education (Friere, 1970). Instead of making deposits of knowledge, education now encourages students to discuss, question, and interact with text, teachers, and fellow students.
Developing a classroom assessment plan:
  • Standards based curriculum and instructional goals
  • Opportunities for examination of both process and product.
  • Clear purpose
  • Clear evaluation criteria.
  • Clear connection between task and intended student outcome.
  • Immediate feedback
  • General reflection and personal goal setting.


Professional Development

  • Becoming lifelong learners through professional

development.

  • Mentoring programs
  • Professional development resources


Reflections:
Teachers should model quality reading and writing in the content areas. It should be our priority to encourage and support the future literacy of our students.
References
McLaughlin, M. (2015). Content area reading: Teaching and learning for college and career readiness(2nd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

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