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BICS vs. CALP

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First Aid Care and Prevention week 9 Q4 with ELL modifications

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Q: How did you modify your lesson plan from it’s original version?

A:  I applied more focus to specifics, building background knowledge, group/partner work, and visual incorporation.

Q: How does my LP take ESOL into consideration?

A: It offers more opportunity for scaffolding and building background knowledge as opposed to just worksheets implementation.

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Freedom Writers
1- Ms Gruwell is facing cultural shock , she is from mainstream culture.
She knows that she needs to start knowing the students culture, but she doesn’t know how.
In same way I have been in that position, or maybe I still am, the movie is showing all the effort the teacher put to understand her students, and after that, all effort that students put to allow the teacher to understand them.

2- Mrs Gruwell used different curriculum and materials until she had the Eureka moment. Frustrated by her efforts to inspire her students, she asked the students to write about their own life.
She gave them the opportunity to write anonymous, or to talk with her if they feel the need.
This gave the students the engagement they needed!
They felt like a family, problems were the common denominator, and then, writing was a way to canaliza the problems feeling.

3- The students were feeling rejected by the teachers, by the School system, by the society, after the teacher intervention they start seeing her like a part of them, like a family.

4- The movie is showing the importance of being relative to race.
Education provide us the understanding of society and culture. Culture is the society mindful, is telling us behavior, attitude.
If the teacher is not knowing the students culture, the teacher won’t understand the students reactions and
and ways to behave. Just knowing that the teacher could create a good and applicable intervention plan.

5- From the movie I could see so many important values assign to the teacher.
One of them is Leadership. Leadership is more than just guide students, it’s creating an influential relationship wit the students allowing them to reflect and create the changes needed. She is looking to me transformational.
She is showing really good communications skills, as well as really good organization skills,
One think that I think it’s amazing is the empathy that the teacher is showing.
I truly believe empathy is the most important aspect that the teacher could have.

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Stine

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Freedom Writers
Questions Notes
What challenges does Ms. Gruwell face? How are these similar or not to your own challenges in this profession? Students have various socioeconomic backgrounds and limited resources. Teachers in general have limited resources and have kids from various backgrounds where education may not be a priority.
How did Ms. Gruwell initially try to make the curriculum and materials relevant to the students? How did she adapt and how did being a reflective practitioner play into her evolution? Ms. Gruwell tried to relate the content relevant to the students background. She adapted to the students after learning more about them.
How did the students “other”? How did teachers and staff “other”? The students have biases towards one another based on stereotypes. The teacher built biases against the students based on their socioeconomic background.
How does the movie portray issues of importance as being relative to race? The movie shows the relevance of knowing the background knowledge of your students.
How does the movie speak to the importance of teachers? What kinds of qualities are important in a teacher, based on what you saw in the movie? How does the movie speak to the importance of having teachers that students can see themselves in? The movie shows the role of a teacher is much larger than the course materials taught. Students need to see role models in the teachers to know they are there for them to grow as individuals, not force feeding content.
“You can’t get someone to want an education. The best you can do is get them to obey, to learn discipline.” Agree or disagree? Disagree, Education is a tool to help individuals grow to become more well rounded.
What did the line game do? The line game showed similarities amongst the students.
What biases about minorities are presented in the movie? Poverty and crime were a common bias within the movie.
How does trauma affect education? How does opportunity affect education? Trauma can shut out new content to dwell upon what is affecting the individual. Opportunity can create clarity or broaden your knowledge.
How did Ms. Gruwell lead the change in student beliefs? Ms. Gruwell gave the students a new opportunity to expand their beliefs and see commonalities they didn’t know existed.
“Even an ordinary person can turn on a small light in a dark room.” How do we motivate students to do this? Anyone can make a difference.
What have you learned about curricular materials, teacher perceptions, and pedagogy from this movie? Curricular materials should be expanded instead of focusing on content.

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Freedom Writers

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The challenges that Ms. Gruwell faces is trying to reach a group of kids that others have pushed away and they don’t respect her because they have preconceived ideas about life.

The movie portrays the relevance of race in the student’s think life is based on skin color. They hate or love people based on what they look like.

The movies speaks to the importance of teachers by students will see if a teacher cares. If they go the extra mile for them, over time the student will see that and may be more willing to open up. Qualities that teachers should have are compassion and willingness to embrace all cultures and backgrounds
But have a good strong moral compass that students can base their own off.

The line game displayed that no matter what race or background, everyone has things in common.

Ms. Gruwell lead the change in beliefs with the students by creating a community and showing the students that they have similarities and can use those similarities to create relationships to stand together.

Even an ordinary person can turn on a small light in a dark room. We motivate students to do this by making sure they understand that they can impact the world around them if they have ideas, determination, and follow through against all odds to do what is necessary and what is right.

Jeff Uban

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How did you modify your lesson plan from its original version?

I modified my lesson plan by adding a new activity adapting my classroom conditions (lack of instruments) into something fun. Before this Professional development I was not aware of the ESOL strategies that I was using. In fact, I was using some ESOL strategies to teach music as a second language. Now, I realize I could use those strategies not just for music. I could teach music trough language and vice versa.

How does your plan take ESOL students into consideration?

Performing an activity where all students feel engage in a game or a competition where they can use their own language so it is not a handicap to win or participate. It is a great way to break language barriers. Also, it provide an amazing opportunity to create a learning environment where everybody could learn not just from their own country-cultural-background.

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Lesson Plan Reflection

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Lesson Plan Reflection

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Hi guys, since the Flash cards game wasn't successful, I post this one. Hopefully you will enjoy it better!

Carnival Cups

You know that popular magician’s game where there’s a ball under one of three cups, and you have to follow the cup with your eyes to remember where the ball is?

Your students will have fun trying to trick one another with that game, but instead of a ball under the cup there’ll be a flashcard.

You’ll need three cups and a set of vocabulary flashcards for every two players. This is where those index card flashcards come in handy. One player puts a card in one cup and does their cup switching as best they can. When they stop, their partner chooses a cup and looks underneath it.

If they find the card, they don’t automatically win. They’ll have to prove they know the word—they should provide the definition on the other side of the card, and you might also ask them to pronounce the words correctly, give a synonym or antonym or use the word in a sentence.

You can also play a different version of this game using flashcards that have fill-in-the-blank sentences or grammar rules on them. The player who finds the card will just have to demonstrate that they know the material on the card in some way.

If they get it right, they get to keep the card.

Play for a certain amount of time (10 minutes usually works) and the player with the most cards at the end of the game wins.

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Model of the Earth, Moon, and Sun

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BICS vs CALP

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LP Reflection

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Adjusted Lesson Plan (From PBL Unit Plan on Mass Shootings)

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Adjusted Lesson Plan (From PBL Unit Plan on Mass Shootings)

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J.Michelle Whitaker
Items in RED is what I've changed from my original LP.

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J.Michelle Whitaker

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How did you modify your lesson plan from the original?

I did not have a lesson plan to modify so I created one from scratch as an example of what I would do for a lesson. As a result of talking with and following the example of others I was able to get a better understanding of the things needed in a lesson plan. I was also able to word it in a manner that was consistent with having someone else understand the lesson plan when they read it.How does your plan take ESOL students into consideration?

My lesson is ESOL friendly and involves a lot of action and gestures. If a student does not speak English they will still be able to follow along with the lesson. They will also be able to practice English elements while learning to play their instrument. Pictures are incorporated through instrument fingering charts which makes understanding what to do easier since it’s visual. They also have time to collaborate with other students to help understand what to do.

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Lesson Plan

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How did you modify your lesson plan from it’s original version?

By organizing my lesson plan with hooks, presentation, practice, and production I have put an emphasis on how my class will be orchestrated. Originally, my lesson plans entailed objectives and assessments, but lacked how students would be engaged throughout the lesson. Organizing my lesson plans with the four new additions will allow me to elaborate on how my students will be brought into the lesson and learn the content.

How does your plan take ESOL students into consideration?

ESOL students will benefit from the changes to my lesson plan in a multitude of ways. First, my students will have an attention getter to introduce concepts; allowing ESOL students to preview content. The students will then be presented the information discussed in the lesson through an activity. Then the students will practice the lesson. This will lead to better production; due to a clearer understanding.
- James O’Malley

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Lesson Plan Reflection - Yessenia Zamora

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HIGHLIGHTED VERSION IS THE LESSON THAT WAS MODIFIED!!! Only look at highlighted column.

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Multiple Meanings Lesson Plan.Rosey's Assgnmnt (ELL Accom.)

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Taty

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Where can we access the 2,000 most common words? - Yessenia

Found this on Flocabulary:
https://www.flocabulary.com/wordlists/

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Michelle and I watched this video and have a clearer understanding of the theory of BICS and CALP

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SXJZT

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I will like to focus in improve the vocabulary and pronunciation of my students, using the new techniques that I learned today.