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Teaching Heritage Speakers III: Differentiated Teaching and mixed classes. STARTALK, 2012 National Heritage Language Resource Center, UCLA. First presentation (Monday morning). The elements of HL teaching; Identifying good materials; Adapting not so good ones. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Teaching Heritage Speakers III: Differentiated Teaching and mixed classes
STARTALK, 2012National Heritage Language Resource
Center, UCLA
First presentation (Monday morning)
• The elements of HL teaching;• Identifying good materials;• Adapting not so good ones
Second presentation(Monday afternoon)
• Introduction to differentiated teaching with a focus on three tools: templates, agendas, centers.
Today
• Two more tools of differentiation (cont.)Formative assessmentGroup work (paired work, ½ class)
• Mixed pairings (HL + L2)Ask me later, if you are interested:
Small groups Contracts
First: The exit card question
• Question: How do you differentiate with a fixed syllabus?
• Answer: Design the syllabus for the “typical student”. Build in pathways for students at different levels to meet course objectives.
The exit card question (cont.)
Not so good Better Best
Start at the front of the book, curriculum is fixed.
Start with a curriculum that is designed to meet the needs of the majority (typical learner) for the learner and program.
Start with a curriculum that targets majority needs and is flexible enough to respond to the needs of individual learners.
Appropriate for homogeneous classes, not for mixed classes
Weakness: Neglects those who fall outside that group .
Strength: Meets the needs of all learners.
Conditions essential to differentiation
• Instructors: Need to know students’ needs and strengths and be able to use the tools that support differentiation;
• Students: Need to know where they are, relative to where they need to be. Need to become independent learners;
Formative assessment makes this possible
• Instructors: Need to know students’ needs and strengths and be able to use the tools that support differentiation;
• Students: Need to know where they are, relative to where they need to be. Need to become independent learners;
Templates and exit cards can help with this
• Instructors: Need to know students’ needs and strengths and be able to use the tools that support differentiation;
• Students: Need to know where they are, relative to where they need to be. Need to become independent learners;
Creating independent learnerspalabra significado significado oración
Mi my me
Tu you your
Te pronoun tea
Se I know pronoun
De of give
Mas more but
Si yes if
El the he
What do you need in order to differentiate?
• Instructors: Need to know students needs and strengths and be able to use the tools that support differentiation;
• Students: Need to know where they are, relative to where they need to be. Need to become independent learners;
How do these tools support differentiation?
• Templates • Agendas: Vary pacing• Centers: Vary process (how you acquire
knowledge)• Group work• Contracts
Back to today
• Two more tools of differentiation (cont.)Formative assessmentGroup work (paired work, ½ class)
• Mixed pairings (HL + L2)Ask me later, if you are interested:
Small groups Contracts
Assessment
• Diagnostic (pre-instruction) • Formative (during instruction)• Summative (post instruction)
Assessment
• Diagnostic (pre-instruction) • Formative (during instruction)• Summative (post instruction)
Formative assessment Formative assessment Summative assessment
Purpose To improve instruction and provide feedback to students
To measure student competency
When administered Ongoing, throughout unit End of unit or course
How students use results To self-monitor understanding,Identity gaps in understanding and strengths
To monitor grades and progress toward benchmarks
How teachers use results To check for understanding, modify their own teaching to enhance learning
For grades, promotion
How programs use results To modify the curriculum and program To report to external entities
Adapted from Checking for Understanding. Formative Assessment Techniques for Your Classroom by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey, ASCD, 2007
In essence, formative assessment…
Provides information to instructors, learners andprograms about
a) where they are;b) where they need to be;c) how to bridge the gap between (a) and (b)
HOW DID THE EXIT CARD ACCOMPLISH THESE GOALS YESTERDAY?
Almost everything can function as formative assessment
Exit card Quizzes, practice tests (group + individual)Quick checks TemplatesHomework exercisesClass activities The KWL chart (What I know, What I want to learn, What Ilearned)
Why do we need formative assessment?
Suppose the following HL Learners are all in the same class:Advanced bilingual, schooled: Born abroad. Arrived in the US at age 9;Typical HL learner: US-born. Both parents are native speakers, immigrants.Receptive bilingual US-born. Speaks HL only with mother. Father does not speak HL.
Two-track program:Arabic 100 for HL learners
Arabic: Diglossia • Modern Standard Arabic (High prestige, formal situations, written, known by educated speakers, lingua franca among Arabs from different countries);
• Colloquial Arabic (Low prestige, home language, informal communications, not commonly written, mutually unintelligible regional dialects) (Maamouri 1998)
Arabic 100: • 11 students from six Arab countries (Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Morocco, Egypt) and 1 student from Indonesia (Muslim). • 2 have four or more years of education abroad, 3 have three years of religious education in Arabic in the US; the rest have no literacy skills in Arabic;
How do you assign a grade to these students and
• Maintain standards• Address issues of fairness
BUILD IN PATHWAYS FOR ALL STUDENTS TO MEET COURSE OBJECTIVES
Answer: Differentiate instruction
Example from my own class
Back to outline
• Two more tools of differentiation (cont.)AssessmentGroup work (paired work, ½ class)
• Mixed pairings (HL + L2)Ask me later, if you are interested:
Small groups Contracts
Types of groups
• Learning partners (1/1)• Small groups (3-5)• Half-class/half-class
Grouping strategies
Flexible
By ability
By interest
By learning style
By student choice
By chance/proximity
By HL/L2 status
Grouping strategies: Earlier activities
Flexible
By ability
By interest
By learning style
By student choice
By chance/proximity
By HL/L2 status
Grouping strategies: Focus of this presentation
Flexible
By ability
By interest
By learning style
By student choice
By chance/proximity
By HL/L2 status
Learning partners: HL-L2 pairings
• In Bowles (2012) HL-L2 pairings worked on an oral information gap activity involving home vocabulary. Results: L2 learners benefited more from the activity than HL learners.
• In Bowles (2011) HL-L2 pairings worked on oral and written tasks involving wider range of vocabulary. Result: both types of learners benefited equally from the activity.
What made the difference?
• Material + taskHL learners are better at spontaneous tasks that
tap into intuitive use of language, L2 learners, on the other hand, do better at tasks that require meta-linguistic knowledge;
HL learners are more familiar with home vocabulary; L2 learners, on the other hand, are more familiar with academic vocabulary
Key ideas about HL + L2 pairings
• Take advantage of complimentary strengths of learners
• To the extent possible match HL-L2 pairs for proficiency
• Mix tasks that require intuitive knowledge with tasks that require meta-linguistic knowledge
• Hold both students accountable for contributing to the task
The house comparison task: HL + L2 learner pairings
• Using the house…yes or no?• Having only an oral component…yes or no?
Activity for the geography reading
• Task: Discuss the reading with the goal of identifying differences between Mexico and the US. Write 15 sentences that compare and contrast the countries. Ten sentences must draw on information in the reading and 5 on background knowledge.
Another activity
• Designing a word cloud for the reading
Activity
• Task: Design a word cloud consisting of 30 - 40 key terms – not based on frequency, but on importance to the main ideas;
• Why is this a good task?
Types of groups
• Learning partners (1/1)• Small groups (3-5)• Half-class/half-class
Use agendas to break up the class into two groups…
Group 1 works with the instructor;Group 2 works on their agenda (a list of activities
students must complete in a given time. Vary the pace and product. Support self-directed learning and effective classroom management)
With the little bit of time left…
A challenge for the most intrepid…
• A native speaker in a class of HL learners;• What do you do with this student? How do
you challenge him/her? How do you make sure that other students’ learning is not compromised?
Contracts
• Contracts: An agreement between the teacher and student. Individualized.
• Agendas: A list of activities all students must complete in a given time.
Contracts
• What can you put in a contract for very advanced/native students?
Summary: Differentiation
Summary – group work• Paired work, HL-L2: To the extent possible, match
students for proficiency. Design activities that tap into complementary strengths.
• Half class: Use agendas when meeting with one half of class.
All classes
• Use templates to differentiate instruction by learner needs and foster independent learning;
• Use agendas and centers to vary pace, process, and content;
• Use contracts for students whose abilities far exceed those of the class.
Thank you!