How Do I love Thee...Modeling
Modeling is how I teach. I am constantly "modeling" what to do, how should it look, the steps to complete a project. My students learn through the visual and audio experiences I provide during each of my lessons.
The link provided above it how modeling is used in my classroom when making text-to-text, text-to-world, and text-to-self connections. I try to provide my students with as many opportunities of their new experiences as possible.
Models can be smaller than life, life-sized, or bigger; physical or mathematical; realistic or not, depending on their intended uses... In all cases the point of a model is to make accessible something that is difficult to experience easily" (229.)
When students are learning something new or doing something for the first time it can be difficult for them. Modeling provides them with the opportunity to develop their thought process and accomplish their new task. It is a thinking skill that I and my students already utilize so much. I often have my students model how to do things. They are required to consider what aspects were particularly difficult to grasp or conceptualize and gear their modeling towards their peers.
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