Building Schema And Leveraging MLLs’ Funds Of Knowledge
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Change Idea Overview:
It is helpful for all students and critical for Multilingual Learners that we build schema around new academic concepts before diving into them. Schema refers to the way in which one understands the world. Whenever we encounter something new, we strive to make sense of it by situating it within the framework of learning and experiences we have cataloged and constructed in our minds slowly over time. New information is processed by comparing it with what we already know and believe about the world. Without schema, new concepts, skills, or language have no traction in the brain that enables students to make sense of or remember them.
The Change Idea
THE PROCESS
STEP 1: Find a familiar entry point to the topic
STEP 2: Design an activity that activates prior knowledge (APK) or builds background knowledge students need to access a key concept.
STEP 3: Design an activity that fortifies background knowledge and provides a bridge to the target topic/content.
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Measurement Tool
This data tracker is a tool for capturing student data (including their scores on the measurement tool) throughout the PDSA cycles you run, so you can responsively plan the next steps and track focus student progress over time.
Change Idea In Practice
You can draw from these Change Packets, which were created by our schools to share the way they used this change idea to lead to promising improvement, as you plan out how to implement and measure the change idea in your school.
10X020 - Creating Access to Content by Building Academic Language
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