Parallel Experiences!

There was a part in the beginning of this chapter that really caught my eye because the area of subject that i am teaching, or going to teach, there is hardly any or no reading. The beginning starts off with a conversation between two adults and one said, "Oh Yeah? Then you tell me hot I'm supposed to teach reading when students don't have to read in my class?". I was thinking this same thing because i am teaching physical education. But as this conversation went on between the two adults one of them starts talking about how the other teacher reads a blueprint. "So how do you read a blueprint?" says one of the teachers. "What do you mean how do i read a blueprint, I just read it", says the other teacher. This brings up a good point because every single one of us has different abilities in a subject that comes easier to us rather than to others. For example, making a lesson plan. To me it is simple at this point and to others it's like a whole new demention and don't know where to even begin.

THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL MODELING 

First off, when i say this headline i thought what an important statement! I say this because we all need to guided in some way or another. We are guided bu our parents, teachers, colleges, friends, schools and communities. We all do need a set of rules as well, so we know right from wrong. But some people don't follow these rules and is why we have police officers and i will include the military as well. Now, as teachers, we need to set guidelines or rules for our students when it comes to reading or writing. I know when it comes to assignments myself i need some type of rubric to follow so i know what the heck i am doing! 

            So what is mental modeling? 

1) Mental modeling gives students insights into how good readers ans writers make sense of the text
2) Allows students to see options that are available to them
3) Helps students understand the complex way of reading and writing and that students have an ongoing thinking process 

So, how do we as teachers apply this concept into our classroom?
 This also depends on the text but to model the examples given are to:

• Determine what is important 
• recognize and repair confusion 
• negotiate difficult reading situations 
• start new books 
• remember key word from previous chapters 
• figure out unknown vocabulary 
• research topics 
• remember what you read 
• infer meaning 

It is important that as teachers we are able to recognize what students are struggling with. As teachers we know the struggle of reading and is important to give our students insight on how we dealt with the struggle and share how we got through it. Some of the things we as tachers do can be passed on to our students.