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I have been looking for the Tiers Words for long time, finally I learned today! I will use those three Tiers in our classroom. And also I would like to encourage our students to make their own word booklet. In addition, I love the part of "how to teach Read Aloud".It let me remembered when I was working in the kingderganten. I will also try to use some interesting ways to read story with our Grade 3 students together. At last, I would like to try co-teaching in translanguage with Ms. Lillian in our Grade 3 team.

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Connect: What resonated with me was putting "What matters most" for our students and that what we've been doing in the classroom is already some best practices.

Extend: Translanguaging extended my thinking about how to utilize the students dominant language to help them better understand the concepts and tier 2 vocabulary we want them to acquire.

Challenge: My challenge is to more intentionally work with my teaching partners to co-teach lessons in a variety of ways including "One teacher leading discussion while another teacher is assessing" and I'd like to try more interactive read alouds and really engage students in reading and build a passion for reading. I wonder how I could build this passion in my stream time group and make an impact for our very low students such as the one you observed in our grade 5 class.

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First, I want to celebrate what we are doing at Daystar in Translanguaging. Yay!

A Challenge for me can be what I do should be consistent with what I planed. It doesn't mean not being flexible, but to be more confident about myself.

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Connect: the interactive read aloud resonated with me as it aligns with one of my teaching goals this year to elevate my read alouds, find books that provide a variety of cultural connections, and spark students interest in the unit to be social innovators.

Extend: the training provided excellent applicable examples and strategies that I can easily upgrade my lessons with, share with colleagues during collaborative planning, and implement during co-teaching.

Challenge: A challenge will be to make sure I’m intentional with my planning, be flexible and receptive to taking risks, and making time to update my lessons and resources.

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Translanguaging is important and we should provide many opportunities for students to do so in class. Offer students choice in which language they want to reflect, think, discuss, and explain. When assessing, it's important to provide scaffolding materials for students (sentence frames). Extend- students' language uniqueness should be celebrated and we should seek ways to be more inclusive in class and help students to feel represented. Metalinguistic Awareness, I can't miss any opportunities for students to access their background knowledge to compare and make connnections with new content. ......Challenge: I will work on trying different collaborative teaching models to diversify the way we teach. In order to do so, I need to read more/investigate to fully understand what all the models look like in practice and which ones would be best for students in G1.

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Connect

I feel very proud of the work we do here and how open-minded people are to try new things. I think the tools that have been shared are useful for all grades.

Extend

Translanguaging is a concept that we do implement regularly, but how many more opportunities are there to implement it in all aspects of the day not just in the classroom to help build relationships.

Challenge

To be brave enough to allow the students to write things in their own language and trust that together we can work out if they have understood correctly the main concept.

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Connect

I like how it connected with the schools goal of increasing vocabulary/ oral fluency

Extend

It’s a nice reminder to make sure to connect native language even with students excelling.

Challenge/Wonderings

The biggest challenge in class is finding materials with representation but with challenging enough vocabulary without being too mature in context. Are there additional ways to enrich vocabulary usages outside of word studies and referring to the mentor text and making sure the examples contain the vocabulary within 80 minute block once a week.

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Connect - I loved making connections to my students language learning and my own linguistic journey. It has allowed me to name stratagies I use and given me many ideas on how to improve the lingistic experince in my class.

Extend -I am going to look into more research on Translanguaging and ways of introducing this to my students.

Challenge - Looking as using differnt teaching collabrative teaching models and how to include these in my class with my team.

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Connect: I am resonate a lot with translanguaging. As I shared with you, our teachers repeatedly told us to " give up" the thinking of Chinese for master English. That's what we did and tried to do. I asked around all the paras in this room today, some of them had the same experiences. Hearing you today helped me realise that my Language can be a powerful tool for me to improve not a enemy. Extend: I want to empower all my students to use this and not embarrassed by it. Challenge: As I mentioned, I wonder if this slow down the fluency of English learning?

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Connect- It was wonderful to see that some many things that matter most to BMLs are already happening here- naming those practices and providing practical strategies for implementation is really really helpful!

Extend- I love love loved the thought-provoking Interactive Read Aloud to ideas to help us make more intentional and effective use of this priceless strategy.

Challenge- I'm wondering when we can have you come back to work with our Chinese teachers on Translanguaging as well!

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One of the most inspiring term that I've learned today is the word 'shift' which means students get to think and discuss one topic in their own domain language so that they can fully take advantage of their repertoire and then 'shift ' into the language that they are currently learning with teachers scaffolding, like sentence frame and staters. I've seen same things happening in our classroom where students look at English and don't know what to say, once they've heard it in Chinese ,they immediately get it.

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Connect- The power of read alouds! This was a normal practice in my classrooms in the past, but has been less and less. It's refreshing to see how we can really leverage a read aloud to ensure the time spent reading it is meaningful for students.

Extend- Both parents and teachers had requested word lists in the past and this is something I had been working on for the past year, but was struggling to find the best way. Today gave me a new idea!

Challenge- Find the right way to facilitate co-planning meetings where the people actually teaching in a classroom together have designated time for just them to plan, assess, and reflect.

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Connect : I'm so excited , to hear your perspectives on all the good things we are doing , it is so nice that we are able to identify and consider expanding on our practice with a strong foundation....

Extend: "Translanguaging" : was an area I have been to explore more as a necessity in my class - I'm so happy it is a " thing" , and will continue to explore how we can provide opportunities for leaners to connect their knowledge to become real bilingual leaners - making connections and been proud of their knowledge and skills.

Challenge: Continue to explore ways to empower students , I'm interested in finding out more ways to eliminate the " filter mind"

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connect:It is a good experience , it breaks the stereotype when learning ENGLISH with native speakers, we have to talk in the same language, and we can have our domain language to learn, that is really helpful when we are helping students to know about the knowledge, and also there are various of strategies we can use to have clear steps to build the class.

extend: translanguaging is new or natural skill we will contiue to work with

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Connect--At this moment, I know that I am on the right track of teaching English as a second language.

Extend--I will more focus on the tier-2 words to build up the students' vocabularies.

Challenge---My challenge is that how to achieve "word consciousness".

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It is the first time for me to hear about translanguaging. Previously I heard that we would better keep English only classroom, but from now on, I will try not only translate but also translanguaging. Making connections with students's experiences before and through read-aloud, guided reading.

Using and applying various collaborating teaching with homeroom teachers and leap teacher.

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Connect - assessing 1/2 of my children's abilities is bothering me

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Connect - assessing 1/2 of my children's abilities is bothering me

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Extend - I'm toying with new ways to include vocab experiences meaningfully

Challenge - starting and not being hampered by perfection, just try