Strategies in Teaching Content Area Learning, Vocabulary, and Math

Introduction

The research based is one of the best strategy in teaching content area learning, vocabulary, and math. Such strategy is the most effective and efficient tool which enables teachers to ensure that the students have fully understood the content they taught. Usually, the teacher starts by teaching the coursework or the topic targeted. Thereafter, the teacher gives out some research questions or assignments that shall be submitted for review and marking. It is after making the research question or assignment that the instructor will be able to ascertain whether students understood the content they were taught or not. If the students fail the assignment, that is, they get some marks below average; the teacher will further give other assignments for redoing.

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The most effective technological support that can be applied to teach mathematics is the use of an interactive explorations and the visualization. In making mathematics visual to go beyond the student's engagement; the brain research shows it to be an integral as far as learning math is concern. It enables brain to think mathematically when the visual pathways are usually involved when working on some symbolic numbers calculations. According to Ary, Jacobs, Irvine, and Walker (2018), representing all the mathematical concepts by teachers visually and also including all grade or mark levels visually can impressively help students.

The other important technological support that can be applied to teach mathematics includes; the computer algebra systems, the handheld computations, data collections, and analysis tools. Such content-specific technologies help students to identify and explore mathematical concepts and their relationships. The strategic application of the technological devices can usually support the learning of mathematical procedures as well as skills. It also supports development of the advanced mathematical proficiency for example, the problem solving, justifying and reasoning.

As children enter school, they come with different levels of language sophistication, and the gap continues to widen with time. Those with an advantage of better vocabulary continue to grow as readers while those lacking continue to struggle to keep up with their peers. In teaching vocabulary teachers can use activities of examining concordance examples, reading hypertext, entering texts into a cloze passage maker and consulting online dictionaries and integrating them with reading passages to reinforce reading and vocabulary retention (Kilickaya &Krajka, n.d) This will help in improving the memory connection between the form and meaning of words, help in successfully placing of new terminologies in the right context and memorizing new words.

References

Ary, D., Jacobs, L. C., Irvine, C. K. S., & Walker, D. (2018). Introduction to research in education. Cengage Learning.

Kilickaya M.A.&Krajka Phd. (n.d).Teachers' Technology Use in Vocabulary Teaching. Retrieved from https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED528896.pdf