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Getting to know our students is important.

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Getting to know our students is important.

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Holding high standards is not about making the work “more difficult,” but about motivating through relevance and personalization. Jim Cummins (2006) uses the term “inspired instruction” to refer to the type of teaching that we all want for our own children and for ourselves as life-long learners. Inspired education is about the sorts of classroom experiences and lessons that we remember throughout our lives and that motivate us to want to learn more.  (Capacity Building Series Page 2, Edition #20)

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Realize the importance of initial assessment.
Here is a link to the literacy and mathematics assessments for different grades.

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This STEP Initial Language Assessment is for teachers with responsibility for assessing English language learners new to Canada. Some components of this assessment are password protected. To access components of the STEP Initial Language Assessment enter the password information, which has been provided to provincially funded English language school boards in Ontario.

Initial Language Assessment - Password Protected Content

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This STEP Initial Language Assessment is for teachers with responsibility for assessing English language learners new to Canada. Some components of this assessment are password protected. To access components of the STEP Initial Language Assessment enter the password information, which has been provided to provincially funded English language school boards in Ontario.

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http://www.edugains.ca/resourcesELL/Assessment/STEP/STEPUserGuide_November2015.pdf
Use Steps Framework to help guide reading material selection. See snapshot below for example model.

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Learning to develop both languages for our ELLs

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From: Capacity Building Series - Canadian-born English Language Learners

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Objective:         Learning to put theory into practice.   

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Objective:         Learning to put theory into practice.   

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What strategies can be implemented to ensure that my students are being challenged the right amount and not discouraged by this challenge?

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What strategies can be implemented to ensure that my students are being challenged the right amount and not discouraged by this challenge?

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Before: Coming into this course I realized there was a learning curve for me to overcome. I taught ELLs for a short time period and it really shook my confidence not knowing if I was properly supporting them. This course helps me become a confident educator who can solidify my commitment to student learning.

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ETFO resource
some strategies include:
-hands-on activities
-share personal experiences
-graphic organizers
-model activities first
-scaffold material

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Further apply theories and policies into my teaching practice with more practical uses. For example: how can translanguaging be a part of a Think-Pair-Share activity?

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I've found that reviewing policy documents and theories such as: Cummins, Krashen, and Coelho I have a better foundation that I can apply to my practice. For example: Debbie Zacarian and Judie Haynes’ (2010) TWIPs (Terms, Words, Idioms, and Phrases) model helps me understand how to properly use word walls or glossaries in my classroom to develop social and academic language skills for the ELLs.

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Critical Thinking is better learned through practice as it is culturally shaped- Canadian critical thinking models may differ from other countries.
Apply to my teaching practice:
-hands-on activities that foster interest and excitement rather than complexity and obscurity.
-Use storytelling to set-up real-life examples (Story: Pepsi-Cola Company's $1,000,000 prize- students had to judge who deserved the prize).
-eliminate experts or right/wrong-- allow for process of information.
Source:

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Question after Activity 1.6: If grammar drills is ineffective, and practical learning is better,what other areas benefit from practice?

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Question after Activity 1.6: If grammar drills is ineffective, and practical learning is better,what other areas benefit from practice?

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-vocabulary/word walls is not the focus of the ESL/ELD program
-Students will have to learn academic and social language at the same time. I hadn't realized there was a difference until 1.6 Jim Cummins.

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This article helped me understand the assessment of ELLs. The STEPS framework helps me be more confident in my assessments.

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Language acquisition (1.6)
-Gained know-how on how we learn language
-Importance of emotional literacy
-Theory behind practices
-Encountered STEPS---Researched further-- see next sticky.

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How do I demonstrate my know-how to any parents, colleagues, or students who think that I may not be fit enough to teach ELL because of my own background?

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How do I demonstrate my know-how to any parents, colleagues, or students who think that I may not be fit enough to teach ELL because of my own background?