Supporting Academic Discourse
Nearly 49% of the students in Santa Barbara Unified School District were, are Life long- English Language Learners. Over 25% are categorized as English Language Learners (ELL) while the other 24% were initially proficient or have been redesignated as English proficient. Still, the numbers are grim. Of the ELLs in 3rd-8th and 11th graders tested using the 2016 CAASP, 8% met or exceeded and 30% nearly met the language arts learning standards. What if we could go back in time, before the test. What would be the 3 or 4 things that could change in our pedogogy? What would stay?
The good news is, there is room for growth- lot's of it. Research from independent institutions show that GLAD strategies work to promote both academic input and output from students.
How do we scaffold content? How do we scaffold for argumentation?
Accountable Talk
As you develop you units in science, you the teacher must be secure in your understanding of the storyline. Unpacking the standard helps you select and choose text. Embedded in science an social students, students must have opportunities to speak and listen so that they can get to a place in which they can demonstrate their understanding of of the Big ideas ascertained from the story line.
1) Choose Text: Connect to standard, engaging complex but accessible, about 1 page in length
2) Complete a preparatory Text Analysis
3) Explore the Core Idea: Each day, students read, students pair to speak, and students write.
4) Engage with the Text: Close Reading Protocols, and Collaborative productive discussion.
5) Perform Task/ Assessment activity that aligns with the expectations with a cope and have an opportunity for literacy development. In your honors class you might have 2 pieces of evidence that support the statement and 2 more to support the counterclaim vs. students who are emerging may be required to provide 2 pieces of evidence. Throughout the unit you should have been scaffolding to support your student's learning
References
Fisher, D., Frey,N., Nelson,J . Retrieved September 18, 2017
https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/fisher-and-frey/documents/talk_kappan.pdf
Fisher, D., Frey. Instructional Leader. Collaborative Conversations. April 2013. http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/fisher-and-frey/documents/collaborative_conversations.pdf?mtime=20160813152904
Frames to support collaborative academic conversations.
