I thought the article, “A Professional Development Initiative for Developing Approaches to Vocabulary Instruction with Secondary Mathematics, Art, Science, and English Teachers” was a very interesting article. I have never really thought much about how to teach vocabulary but I feel that by reading this article I’ve gained more insight in teaching vocabulary for my students. But after thinking about vocabulary now, I feel that vocabulary is such important to every content area. So now that I know more about vocabulary, it’s not just about having students learn definitions but having them know the meaning of the word but also being able to use it and make connections with the word. During middle school but teacher had us learn the etymology of a word and I know this greatly increased my knowledge of words and how words are formed. I appreciate the information given in the article. I hope that I will be able to successfully teach vocabulary to my students and for them to truly understand the complexity of words.
I also enjoyed looking at the I-poem examples. I feel that the students had to have had a good sense of content and vocabulary to write these. I know I want to use these in my teaching career.
