Reeling in Research

Lana Lopez                                                                                                                                                                                  Lopez 01

09/02/2013

Ms. Williams

English 1A

Reeling in Research

I chose an article called Connecting and Creating for the Learning: Integrating Subject Matter Across the Curriculum and the School, which I believe relates to the passion project because it indicates how important subject matter is and how students need to relate to what they are learning.  As the students in the passion project state outright that they need to be able to connect not only with the subject but also with the teacher is very true, if the teacher themselves doesn't show a passion for their own work how can the student “mirror” something different if what they are being shown is carelessness and lack of passion. In the article I chose the teachers were teaching their students by explaining why they are being taught different subjects and why they are related, in the eyes of the child “ reading occurred during reading time, math occurred during math time and never would one be used with the other during school.” ( Rocher, fear and Herman,206) When educators realized children were only memorizing what they were being taught instead of retaining information a study was done to figure out a way to help these children retain the information to become a better student. Teachers started to explain to their students that you needed to know how to read to be able to understand math, science and other subjects that use reading to explain information, 

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therefor they learned that students began “ to say I don't understand” (pg. 217).  When students started to become more comfortable with relating subjects, teachers began to see a major difference if self expression and “ ‘children conduct respectful interactions’; at-risk children are not isolated, they have more opportunity and support” (pg. 217). Due to this change of learning style and informing the students of why subject matter is important and related, teachers themselves witnessed first hand that showing passion by taking that extra step for their students lead to the students being comfortable and passionate themselves, which is the whole point of the passion project to me. 

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Works Cited

Roehler, Laura, Kathleen Fear, and Beth Ann Herrmann. "Connecting And Creating For Learning: Integrating Subject.." Educational Psychology Review 10.2 (1998): 201. Academic Search Premier. Web. 3 Sept. 2013.