Blog #7: The Conclusion

From this whole experience I've basically learned that you can't takes students understandings for granted. I think that when I first went into this I assumed that I would be explaining mostly science terms, however as the weeks passed I noticed that I defined regular vocabulary words as well and scientific words. If anything this whole experience has taught me how on track Readicide is with today's students. I've really had my eyes opened when it comes to using vocabulary in the classroom and how important it is to help students understand that reading isn't just done in the language arts classroom but it can be done anywhere with anything. I also think that it is important to stress to students that while they are in the science classroom, they are scientists and as such they need to be able to read and write like scientists. I think this intimidates a lot of students but if we as teachers make them understand that reading as scientists or mathematicians or historians or artists or whatever is not necessarily different from just reading as much as they will be looking for different things and writing in different ways. This whole experience feels like an affirmation of the things we done in class and I hope that when I have my own classroom I can continue to use these techniques to encourage students to read no matter the subject.