EL Strategies From The Front Lines

EL/ELD PLC

GUHSD

March 24, 2009

A Little Background…

Robert Collins- “No Easy Answer, No Magic Bullet”

Four to Seven Years to Achieve Fluency Become the Teacher/Researcher Prepare the Students for Success in

College All Students are AESL- Academic English

as a Second Language!!

Spanish

Chaldean

Arabic

Kurdish

Filipino

Farsi

Vietnamese

Somali

Samoan

Khmer

Punjabi

Tagalog

Thai

Lao

Hmong

Hindi

Korean

Cantonese

Mandarin

MT MIGUEL HIGH SCHOOL

19+Languages

Spoken Here!!

The First Thing-Steven Krashen’s Affective

Filter…An impediment to learning or acquisition caused by negative

emotional ("affective") responses to one's environment. (wikipedia)

The lower….the better!!

Eight Strategies You Can Use This Week!

Cognate (“The Wall”) TPR Explicit Teaching of

Vocabulary Graphic Organizers

Realia Jazz Chants Cooperative Learning

Groups Cornell Notes

Cognate Wall

Cognate- a word that is the same or almost the same in two or more languages

Index Cards-words and picture REVENGE!!!

TPR

Total Physical Response- Dr. James Asher- San Jose State

“The way that babies learn…” Physical movements as mnemonic

devices

Explicit Teaching of Vocabulary

Dr. Kate Kinsella- San Francisco State Students do not just “get” new words…they must

be…1.  pronounced2.  explained vs defined3.  provided examples and non-examples that they

can connect with 4.  deepen understanding5.  review / coach- invite students to use terms in

class (Kate Kinsella)

Graphic Organizers

Mind Maps!! New Concept- Old Terms New Terms- Old Concepts Make your own to fit your needs… http://teachers.teach-nology.com

Realia

Real Life Objects Appeals to Different Learning Styles

(touch)

Jazz Chants

Short Rhythmic Poems to Help You Remember Things

Phone Numbers-Song Lyrics

Cooperative Learning Groups

Group According to Language/Levels of English

Don’t Mind A Little “Productive Noise” Groupwork Grading Problems??

COMPROMISE - 50-50-ish…

Cornell Notes

Walter Pauk- Cornell University Record, Reduce, Recite, Reflect, Review Organization and Long Term Memory Recall Column/Note Column/Summary

Section

The Last Thing- Start Your Modeling Career!

I Do We Do You Do

Where the math teachers win…grrr!