Teaching Content Is Teaching Reading

abelltube Says:

Sep 28, 2009 - You can't put too much water into a nuclear reactor. - A monty python sketch.

yumyumyumify Says:

Dec 7, 2009 - I love this! I teach reading and we discuss these things in class. I will show this video to my students! Thank you very much for posting this.

jenluv37 Says:

Dec 8, 2009 - Every reading teacher needs to watch this video . . . especially elementary teachers. If K-5 doesn't give a base, 6-12 don't have a shot at age appropriate comprehension!

nneworleans2000 Says:

Dec 23, 2009 - This video doesn't prove that homeschooling is better than other forms of educating children. It highlights the fact that educators must focus on critical thinking skills. Using language arts instructional time to teach language arts in mini-lessons and incorporate project-based learning help students to see observe, create, and understand knowledge. In short, Prof. Willingham shows us that we need to think about content and strategies.

dbw8m Says:

Jan 6, 2010 - Amen

whitestringofpearls Says:

Jan 17, 2010 - I love this, too. You can't think at the "higher" levels of Bloom's until you have something to think about, right? How can I evaluate or synthesize when I have no "knowledge" to work with?

srinsriram Says:

Feb 21, 2010 - really well made.. the music kept me engaged! of course, I didn't have to be persuaded about the main thesis... it seems remarkably peculiar that process is emphasized (in elementary school) over content

SayWahNot Says:

Apr 1, 2010 - So true! Would add: reading aloud helps students learn the voice of a text. That's one reason theatre helps reading. Also helpful, to begin to see reading as conversation across time and space, a link to other human beings we can question, converse with, argue back to. That's why reading aloud even to high schoolers is important. Until they can HEAR Shakespeare, they can't read Shakespeare. Same for Emerson, or the Declaration of Independence. Thanks for this video.

jugazuhe Says:

Jul 2, 2010 - congratulations.

Speed202 Says:

Jul 16, 2010 - Lock and Load teachers.....

jesuskopp Says:

Jul 20, 2010 - very nice I agree!!!

Aritul Says:

Jul 21, 2010 - Very informative video.

sbeyer12 Says:

Sep 23, 2010 - Thank you so much for sharing! this is my belief as well. I will share this with my staff!

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kangarc Says:

Dec 12, 2010 - : The data shows that you're right about wealth being a predictor of academic achievement, but wrong about the correlation with going to museums and libraries, and being read to. For whatever reason, it's been very difficult to determine WHY economic advantage so often equals academic advantage.

kangarc Says:

Dec 12, 2010 - : Actually, most teachers already know this and agree, but they have no say in the curriculum and its priorities. It's the administrators and school-board policy-wonks who typically don't understand this, and don't care to learn.

bizauer Says:

Jan 4, 2011 - This is one of the best videos I've seen discussing bridging the gap between reading and understanding. I read "Why Students Don't Like School" by Dr. Willingham, and the information displayed here is elaborated on in his book. It is definately worth the read...hopefully you can continue to bridge the gap with your learning as well!

thisbirdsgotsoul Says:

Feb 5, 2011 - Some very good points were made. However, I was very distracted at 7:24 by the bulletin board that had the word "marvelous" spelled wrong... ;)

jroyc07 Says:

Apr 21, 2011 - Ed 703????

rh001YT Says:

Jun 26, 2011 - Does anyone think a study is needed to prove that distractions are or are not OK while learning the martial arts of Asia? The master requires total obedience to his will and total obedience to one's own will. If you pay attention to a distraction your will has come under the control of another. When you study in total concentration you are obeying the master and yourself - no others allowed. Then you must be tested and test yourself. Is this not obvious?

rh001YT Says:

Jun 26, 2011 - Families are "wealthy" usually because the father, and sometimes mother, are the descendants of a lineage that metaphored-up at sometime in the past, or it could be that the father was the first in his lineage to do so, and lived in a place where affluence was attainable (thus, not Nepal for the most part). Poor parents often discourage abstract thinking (metaphor) in their children out of their own vanity. I encourage children to understand the ratty game and manuever up & out of  it.

rh001YT Says:

Jun 26, 2011 - If the parent values the child's education a clean and orderly home wil be provided and quiet study time enforced. The parent will not put his/her vanities ahead of the child's educative needs. The child will also be educated as to the ways of the world - gradually of course. The poor and/or hedonistic who teach their child to resent will reap their harvest of rotten fruit, and of course blame it on others. Dominance usally comes to the calm and ascetic types - university studies are not needed.

makeiteasyable Says:

Dec 7, 2011 - nice.. ur the best

abcwritestartread Says:

Feb 3, 2012 - E.D. Hirsch would agree. Great video. See Core Knowledge Foundation to add to your understanding of this important video.

diwindchimewater39 Says:

Mar 15, 2012 - This is a fantastic video! I am a Social Studies teacher and I am often appalled at how poorly my students read, and how much the hate reading. What is even more shocking is that many seniors preparing to go to college are functionally illiterate, and have absolutely no clue that they are. I have always believed that I am a teacher of reading as much as I am a teacher of history or geography. Reading is the vehicle of learning.