Welcome to SEI 108 Content Strategies

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Welcome to SEI 108 Content Strategies
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Agenda

• Blog about background knowledge
• ELL content strategies and activities
• WebQuest
• Blog about new ideas
• Review requirements

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Instructional Strategies vs. Learning Strategies
Instructional Scaffolding vs. Verbal Scaffolding
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WHY?

• Instructional approaches that integrate content
  and language are more effective than approaches
  in which language is taught in isolation.

Integrating Language and Content Lessons from
Immersion, National Center for Research on
Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning,
December 1995
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SEI 108 Vocabulary

• Inspiration
• WebQuest
• Blog

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Blog QuestionsWordpress SEI Blog

• Answer the SEI Blog questions found on the SEI
  108 web page.

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Teaching English Language Learners is just good
teaching.

• Why is teaching ELLs different than or similar to
  teaching native language speakers?

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Appointments

• Make 4 appointments on your clock.
• Next meet with your 300 appointment.
• Then discuss your ideas on the quote.

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Unique to ELLs

• Explicit teaching of learning strategies.
• Guidance in oral discourse.
• Attention to language structure and function.
• Even strong decoders are weak at comprehending.
• Little background in English writing processes
  and conventions.
• Catherine Brown

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Commonly asked question

• How will the ELL strategies affect my dominant
  English speakers?
• Will these strategies work in a mixed leveled
  classroom?
• If I simplify my language or activities will my
  students be bored?

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Language Skills

• Reading
• Writing
• Listening
• Speaking

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Give one, Get one
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The Insert Method (Coding)(v) already know(?)
confusing (!) unusual or surprising() a new
idea

I forgot, but I do remember now!
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Preview / Review

• Overview of objectives
• Primary Language
• Visuals
• Vocabulary

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A Reason to Review
Teacher What is the chemical formula for
water?Bongani "HIJKLMNO"!!Teacher What are
you talking about?Bongani Yesterday you said
it's H to O!
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Vocabulary Development

• How are these numbers related to developing
  content vocabulary?
• 5-10
• 10-15

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Speaking and Listening

• United Streaming Example

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WHY?

• For English Language Learners, the expected
  passing rates for building academic language
  exceeded the control groups across all measures
  by an average of 16.5.

Building Knowledge for Academic Achievement,
Marzano and Pickering, 2005
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Vocabulary Organizers

• Inspiration Example
• Inspiration for Vocabulary

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Frayer Model
Facts or Characteristics
Picture
Sentence
Synonym or Antonym
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Using PowerPoint to Introduce Vocabulary

• Math
• Amazing Body Systems

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Student-Generated Questions
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WHY?

• Reading Strategies
• Comprehensible input is one of the key elements
  for second language acquisition.

Krashen (1985)
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Pantomime A Tale

• The whole group is divided into 7 small groups.
• Each group is given one of the paragraphs from
  the story or an article.
• The group prepares to present. A narrator reads
  the selection while the others pantomime the
  information.
• The groups present.

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Jellyfish
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• Reciprocal Teaching
• Predictor
• Questioner
• Clarifier
• Summarizer
• Discussion Director

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Reciprocal Teaching

• Content Area Text Choices

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Adapting and Modifying Text

• Graphic depiction
• Outline
• Rewrite a part of the text

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Writing Strategies

• Sentence Starters or basic structure formats
• Writing Prompts
• Graphic organizers

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Writing Across Cultures
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Flyswatter

• Create two teams.
• Answer teacher question by hitting correct
  response first.
• Winning team answers a second student-generated
  question for extra point.

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WHY?

• An activity-centered approach creates
  opportunities for extended student discourse
  which is likely to be beneficial for second
  language learning.

Integrating Language and Content Lessons from
Immersion, National Center for Research on
Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning,
December 1995
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Strategies

• Blog
• Inspiration
• Flyswatter
• United Streaming without sound
• Insert Method
• Role Playing / Pantomime
• Reciprocal Teaching
• Give one, Get One

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WebQuest

• Introduction
• Task
• Process
• Evaluation

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What do I do if I only have one or two computers?

• Centers
• Pairing
• Use Aver key to project images
• Projector
• Sharing with a colleague

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Review Portfolio Requirement

• Include
• Syllabus for SEI 108
• Your completed in-class WebQuest assignment and
  class hand-outs
• Pre-class reading reflection
• In-class Blog reflection
• SEI 108 Certificate of Training

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