I'm finally learning how to make connections!

As I was reading chapter three, I was just simply reading all of the things that we reviewed in class. Most of what I was reading was just reinforcing what we have been having class discussions on the past few days. I got to the section about alternative conceptions and then I found it very interesting to read about how it means that the idea may not be "scientifically correct", but it still shows an understanding of the concept. This is important because it helps me to better understand how I can help the student evaluate all of his ideas as a future teacher.

The next thing I then read about was Scaffolding. What scaffolding refers to is teachers helping their students gain a better understanding of their learning,  the book says that learners need "scaffolding support by teachers to develop their science understanding." As I was reading this and understanding the chapter, I almost had an epiphany. In my Language Arts methods class we are learning a lot about scaffolding, we actually have a whole book about scaffolding that refers to what it is about and how to teach it. That's when I started making connections, that it's not only science that is all around us. Science is the thing that is around us physically, just the things like when we look outside and observe science, or do science in the classroom and follow the scientific method. But, I just am starting to learn how important it is how much more goes into teaching science in the classroom that is outside of the scientific method. Then, I started applying that to the fact that teaching science isn't the most important subject, but every other subject goes into teaching science and is as equally as important. Teaching about science doesn't just require knowing the scientific method, but so much more goes into actually making the students understand it. Students must understand and comprehend the lanugage used in the classroom to apply it to scientific ideas and procedures.
One of the first ways to do this is by teaching students about scaffolding. Scaffolding helps lead the students in  a positive direction to having a better understanding about problems and things they have to study.

This really does go to show how science is always around us. It's not just around us physically, but learning about these terms and phrases that are being taught in other classes as well are very important to understand so you can teach your students not just about general things, but the meaning behind them as well.

Now that I am starting to put all of this together I am feeling a lot better about all this material that I feel like is being thrown at me and I am excited to make more connections from the text to our class!!! (or in this case...all my classes!)