CHAPTER 3 THE FUNCTION OF THE CONTENT

     

THE FUNCTION OF THE CONTENT

This chapter made emphasis in the function of content in the classroom, because for teachers is indispensable to know what they need to teach before to start the class, this helps to solve the student’s understanding, in their solving problem situation, then develop their critical thinking. Also in this chapter reflect about that teachers must to consider establishing the knowledge base to promoting an active learning.

In addition to, Content is consider the vehicle to develop learning skills , this means that teachers need to help students to acquire strategies, approaches and techniques with the use of adequate materials, that permit them to develop confidence in their ability to tackle learning task on their own. Moreover, in this way they want to understand how they learn, including their natural tendencies and preferences as learners. Also, Content Integrity help students to develop an accurate assessment of their strengths and weakness for a determined time of the lessons and to build news ways of transmit their experience that comprises a connection with learning.

Hence, I consider that content gives opportunities  in the classroom of teaching using management strategies, also this create multicultural classes, where students share opinions, through discussions, about sciences or any thematic that motivate new ways of learning likes games and puzzles as part of an attractive instruments which helps to contextualize an immediately learning .


Resources:

• Weirmen, M. (2002) Learner -Centered Teaching . Five key challenges. Jossey Bass [Adobe digital Edition versions ] retrieved from:.http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uta/docDetail.action?docID=10653948&p00=language%20eaching

• Busy Teacher Org. (2007) Practical suggestions for scaffolding in the content Clasroom. Retrieved from.: http://busyteacher.org/8916-practical-suggestions-scaffolding-esl-classroomhtml.