Blog #1: 3344

I believe there are many ways to how students learn. Some are more visual learners and some can just listen and understand. According to our text, students must actively engage and participate in order to construct knowledge. I agree with this if you are a hands on kind of person. For example me, when it comes to Science, I must do an experiment rather than just read about one in a book.

The six components of language arts are listening, talking, reading, writing, viewing, and visually representing. In order for these to be effective one, as a teacher, must integrate instruction and incorporate opportunities for children to use them on a daily basis. If you really look at these six components they are placed in a certain order. The brain has a process of learning things. Us as college students first listen to the lecture, then discuss it, read about it, write something on it, review, and then present it. This kind of follows the six components. I just found that interesting that it doesn't really change no matter what your age.

I believe that teaching language arts does help children learn because we are learning what approach to take to teach the child. Once we know how the information is going to process better, then we can help the student understand it faster and apply it better. For example; we now know the five strategies to process info, so we can use this to our advantage and help the children even more. We begin to see each child's individual needs. We always knew that each child learned differently, but now we can also see what component works better for them.

As future teachers I really believe we should really take this information with us to the classroom. It can really help out with our everyday teaching. It might help us understand the children better by understanding how they are processing the information and what strategies we must take to help them process this information.