Asset-based Content and Language Instruction for Multilingual Learners in the Secondary Grades Institute
Integrated and Designated ELD in conjunction with culturally and linguistically sustaining practices are the foundational components of effective and responsive secondary schools for meeting the needs of English Learners. In this institute participants will:
• build an understanding of how to integrate support for language development with disciplinary content knowledge
• learn how to plan responsive Designated ELD that is linked to academic content
• become acquainted with high-leverage instructional strategies
• focus on all four domains of language
Participants will become acquainted with the guidance provided in key California Department of Education resources, including the English Learner Roadmap, ELD Standards, ELA/ ELD Framework, and the newly published Improving Education for Multilingual and English Learner Students: Research to Practice.
Learning Goals
Deepen knowledge of assets-based pedagogy, particularly culturally and linguistically sustaining practices.
Enhance understanding of the CA ELD Standards and how they support responsive integrated and designated ELD instruction.
Learn high-leverage instructional practices for simultaneously supporting students’ content learning and language development.
Session 1
General Resources
Slide Deck
Asset-based Pedagogy
Read and annotate the handout “Asset-based Pedagogy.”
What connections are you making?
What interests you?
What questions do you have?
Academic Vocabulary Frayer Model Google Slide
Navigate to the page number that corresponds with your breakout room number
Discuss and add characteristics (traits, qualities, synonyms, of the vocabulary word) examples, and non-examples of assets-based pedagogy into the chart
Use this strategy to build an understanding of concepts and vocabulary to improve students' comprehension.
High-impact Instructional Strategies for English Learner Students
Six Interacting Instructional Practices for ML and EL Students
Skim Figure 6.2, then zoom in on one instructional practice (page 354)
Annotate the one practice: make connections to your practice and note your ideas and questions.
Think about how the six practices might interact in real classroom life.
Integrated & Designated ELD
LAUSD - created these easy-to-use one-page documents of ELD standards
Standards Bundle Google Slide Activity
Identify one Part I Standard and one Part II Standards that may work in tandem with this content area. *The grade level content standards are linked to
Identify at least one of the six practices that might interact with this lesson.
If time permits, discuss what this lesson might look like and sound like; examples can be in any content area
Independent Study
Vignette Collection note-catcher
Session 2
General Resources
Slide Deck
Vignettes Discussion
Vignette Discussion padlet
See it in Action
Integrated and Designated ELD Video Series
Standard’s Bundle google document
What supports did the teacher use for the ELD standards?
Consider what this standards bundle might look like in your content area.
High Impact Strategy
CA ELD Standards Part II: Learning about How English Works
Read the Sentences: First, take turns, round robin style, reading each sentence in each row of the table.
Get the Gist: Next, discuss what you think the “gist” of the paragraph is.
Order the Sentences: After you discuss the gist, work together to place the jumbled sentences in the correct order.
Find the Language Clues: Once the text is reassembled, identify the language clues you used to reassemble the text in order.
Make Meaning: Next, discuss the meanings in the text. Come to a consensus on the three big take-aways from this paragraph.
Think about Your Students: Finally, discuss the activity you just engaged in. If you were a secondary grades student, what specific awareness about language would you have been developing? How were you developing these understandings?