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A Professional Development Initiative for Developing Approaches to Vocabulary Instruction With Secondary Mathematics, Art, Science, and English Teachers

This article discusses different instructional strategies and activities that would help develop a student’s vocabulary.  Two main aspects of effective vocabulary instruction were: developing rich representations of word meanings and learning about how words work.  This article gave specific activities that teachers could use in their classrooms regardless of their content area.  I especially like the activity with the acronym DASER.  This article suggest that the most effective methods for instruction emphasized multimedia aspects of learning, richness of context in which words are to be learned, active student participation, and the number of exposures to words that learners will receive. 

I feel this article gave great insight into an aspect of teaching we should all be concerned with. What I really liked about this article was the examples of specific activities that these teachers used to help develop vocabulary skills.  After reading this article, I felt excited and empowered to use some of these instructional strategies within my own classroom. 

 Heather Connolly

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