My name is Rich Darago. I am married and the father of 3 children (Will-7, Anna-3 and Josephina-1).
I am currently the School Counselor at Hazelwood Elementary Middle School. Previously to being the school’s counselor I taught 7th grade World Cultures and 8th Grade U.S. History for 5 years. I always felt like Social Studies was the outcast subject, as if students did not have to know how to read or write to be successful in Social Studies. I integrated reading and literacy activities daily in my Social Studies classroom and continue to do so today in my classroom counseling visits.
I expect that by taking this course I will further expand techniques for applying literacy activities in my everyday encounters with students through research, course assignments and self reflection.
I feel as though you were very detail in your response and it spoke eloquently to the discussion at hand. I also agree with your ideas on how educators should automatically teach some type of literacy techniques through the use of media and research outside of the traditional text to also introduce students to the practices used in higher education.
ReplyDeleteTo address the needs of students as a whole content literacy must be address form two points of views. As you have pointed-out literacy instruction should be provided by basic instruction (English), and also by individual content area literacy instruction.Words have different meanings in other areas of learning.
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