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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Nonlinguistic Representation

Believe it or not...it's almost December!!  This means we are moving on to Nonlinguistic Representations soon!  A very interesting topic to me because I have had so many negative learning experiences with teachers who teach only from a linguistic modality.  It wasn't until college that I learned that I need to take any new knowledge and manipulate it in a nonlinguistic fashion to retain it deeply.  Once I figured that out learning new content was so much easier and more fun!  What are your experiences as a learner or a teacher with nonlinguistic representations??
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  1. Ashley NewtonDecember 2, 2011 at 4:34 AM

    I was in the same boat in college! Always needed to re-do my notes so that they made sense to me...pictures, charts, graphs...etc.

    I used a lot of non linguistic representations when I was teaching at Roosevelt Middle in New Bedford. I worked there as an SEI (Sheltered English Immersion) teacher, so I worked with a class full of kiddo's who didn't speak English. We used a lot of picture representations, but found that the picture had to be VERY specific so as not to confuse them with details/customs.

    I'm interested in this month's reading! I think it'll be a good refresher!

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