Year Two - session 1
Learning Goals
Synthesize how the CA Curriculum frameworks define scaffolding
Utilize the CA ELD standards to design scaffolds for your students
Design conversations prompts using three guidelines
Plan to use student-lead discussions in future lessons
Reflect and Connect
Scaffolding for Students
How to determine what scaffolds to use?
The Scaffold for all High-Impact Strategies
Other Scaffolding Options from the English learner Toolkit of Strategies
Jeff Zweirs website
Zwiers Example Scaffold (Math)
Improving Prompts Slide Deck for discussion
High-ImPact Strategy: Student Lead Discussions
Four Corners in Action video
Additional Resources
Your Words Matter Article. Abstract of Article- Three language shifts teachers can make to get classroom discussions flowing. What if, despite good intentions, the words you are using to involve students in discussion are actually shutting them out? Education consultant Mike Anderson presents three common errors that teachers use in posing questions and making comments and offers a few simple shifts that can make all the difference.
Let's Talk Math Article Abstract of Article- A PD program in Salt Lake City is bringing math teachers into the conversation. A professional development program in Salt Lake City aims to show math teachers what it's like to be in a math class oriented around discourse and inquiry. The effort, write Meghan Everette and Benjamin Shuldiner, is helping the teachers gain a sense efficacy in this critical but underutilized area of math instruction.
Post-session Tasks:
REVIEW: Resources on Microsite
DO: Design 2-3 prompts for your content area
BRING: prompts you have designed
General resources
Video of Presentation
To learn more about the English Learner Roadmap Policy visit: https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el/rm/
- Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to Practice full text