Nonlinguistic Representations

Texas A&M University – Commerce
Master’s of Education in Secondary Education – MED
MISD & A&M-Commerce Partnership Cohort 2010
SED 513 Secondary School Curriculum – 3 SH
Carlos Soliz

Nonlinguistic Representations


What?

Using the Nonlinguistic Representation model I chose to use the Drawing Pictures and Pictograph strategy for vocabulary and so the students can remember the countries we are studying. I chose to use this strategy because many of my students prefer to draw instead of write. This has helped those students remember things a lot better than a definition.

So What?

The strategy, Drawing Pictures and Pictograph, has been very effective to teach the curriculum. Now all the students don’t have to draw all the time. Sometimes I have the students draw or write and sometimes they draw and write vocabulary words. The feedback that I have is that vocabulary test scores of students that have struggled in the past are on the rise. These students tell me that they prefer to draw instead of write. I really like using this strategy so I would not change anything next time.

Now What?

I will continue to use this strategy because I know that students learn in different ways and a lot of students now days are visual learners. I know that I would have never used this method, mainly because I did not know about it. Learning different methods of teaching has helped me a ton, it has opened my eyes to new methods of teaching. Not only learning new strategies from other teachers but also listening to the students and the way they learn.