Synthesis

Synthesis of the Course

 I decided that I would like to answer the following four questions!

How will you incorporate comprehension instruction into your discipline?

For my final project I was able to interview my clinical instructor and I learned a lot about how he incorporated comprehension into his instruction. He actually had the students read an article together with him and then they went through the article together to point out the important parts that would help them to understand the article and that is all apart of comprehension. I believe that is what I would like to do in my classroom as well is to teach my students the important information that they need to know, and how they can pick out that information from an article honestly if they learn how to do that they will be able to succeed at anything they do!

How will you choose and teach vocabulary words?

I love games and activities to help teach vocabulary words. There was this one game that I found online called slap it and you write all the vocab words on the board and then show the way you would use the word in a sentence or the definition of the word and the students with a clean fly swatter have to swat the board. Well, that could get out of hand fast, but it would also completely engage your students in the activity.

 How will you support your students in writing texts and producing other representations in your discipline?

I hope to support my students in writing texts by having them to have little writing projects through out the semester, not only will they learn to write but I as the teacher will be better able to assess their understanding. I know that as I write about a topic I learn more about it than I would if the teacher had just told me about it. So I want to provide my students with the opportunity to learn more by writing about specific topics.

What kinds of texts will you make available to your students?

The types of texts that I hope to have available will be the type that make the students more interested in science. There was the Science behind Batman book, and I know as a student that I would have enjoyed reading that book. I hope to provide my students with not only informational, but fun and exciting texts. I hope the texts in my classroom will encourage my students to learn more and to want to learn more about science in my classroom.