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Hello, my name is Ron Roheck.
I'm an educational consultant that specializes in the field of sheltered
instruction.
That is, I provide tactics and strategies for teachers to use when ELL students
are present in their content areas, like math and science and social studies.
These strategies are based on English learner best practices.
These best practices are based on research, such as
the Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol, or SIOP, a professional
development model, developed by the Center for Applied Linguistics,
as well as years of classroom testing in schools across the country.
From this research and class testing, my colleagues at Course Crafters and
I have created a list of best practices that reflect their research.
Number 1, make your language and content comprehensible.
Cuz my question is whether or
not the liquids are gonna be the same or different.
You see these two balls, golf balls, okay?
These guys look the same, don't they?
>> Yes.
>> Right, these two guys look the same?
>> Yeah.
But these two guys look different, all right?
Same, different, okay?
So now my question.
Do you think these liquids are the same?
>> No. >> Or are the liquids are different?
>> The same.
>> So you think they're the same?
Number 2, provide hands-on activities.
For me, this is the engine that drives the classroom.
Our third idea is to include interactive instruction.
>> Interactive lesson planning promotes active participation and
promotes multiple pathways for discussion.
Teacher to student, student to teacher, student to student.
Whiteboards and cooperative structures,
like Numbered Heads Together and Think-Pair-Share, maximize student output.
Number 4 is to make sure that you include a language objective with every lesson.
Language objectives for
content specialists don't necessarily have to be profound.
But we do have to pay attention to language development every day.
Number 5, use scaffolding strategies to meet the needs of all EL students in your
classroom.
And tell me something about the bear, Vanessa,
a word that would tell me something about the bear.
He is?
>> Brown.
>> Brown, and he is?
Number 6, encourage collaborative or cooperative learning.
Students put their heads together to solve complex problems.
Number 7, try to draw from student experiences and culture.
Look for resources that reflect student background.
They need to see themselves in the material.
Number 8, develop students' higher order thinking skills.
Graphic organizers and sophisticated questions help students to think deeper.
Our ninth idea to try to activate and evaluate students' background knowledge.
Use this kind of tool to determine what students know prior to an activity.
Revisit it to see what they've learned.
And finally,
our tenth idea is to try to build in some ongoing performance based assessment.
Compiling performance based assessments can be a remarkable set of tools for
measuring students' performance.
Make sure the rubrics that you use in design are clear and fair.
Of course, these aren't the only things to consider as you're planning your lessons,
but keep these ten in mind and your student performance is bound to go up.
Good luck.
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