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Interpretive Activity - reading activity (4.1 A4)

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Interpretive Activity - reading activity (4.1 A4)

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Class code: 2R5JNZ

Context: Spanish Dual Language 3rd Grade Students

Lesson Can-Do Statement Addressed:

I can describe the characteristics, structures, and behavior of plants and animals.

Communicative Mode: (Interpretive - written text or aural text)

Delivery Mode: asynchronous

Plan for Assessment:Students will receive feedback after instructor views responses.

Materials needed / Technology tool or application: newsela

Estimated time for completion: 30 minutes

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Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that supercharges reading engagement and learning in every subject.

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How characters shape the story, we are going to read different types of stories that will help you think about this question. We are going to read the story "The Grasshopper and the Ant." Fables are stories with characters that are generally animals that have human characteristics. Their intention is always to educate, that's why they leave a teaching called moral. Before reading the story, we will review what a fable is and the structure of a fable.

I can read and compare stories, poems, and myths to analyze characters and understand how their actions transform events
I can identify how the actions of historical figures have affected our reality.

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Learning plan for a transformed writing activity and Participation Rubric (Scroll to the bottom section)

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Learning plan for a transformed writing activity and Participation Rubric (Scroll to the bottom section)

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This is a lesson that was adopted by our 3rd Grade Team during our Science Unit on Living Systems. Students read a text and followed up with a writing activity. In this lesson, students will be learning about the characteristics, structures and behaviors of the crayfish. Since this is an online activity, students will not be able to see the crayfish in person but will see them through visuals and a video will be shown to students so they can see them. The feedback shared from my classmates were that the activities are interesting for kids and you can teach it in f2f or online.

See the rubric on the bottom section of this lesson

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Cruz Alvarado-CARLA TTLO  Writing activity.docx

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Cruz Alvarado-CARLA TTLO  Writing activity

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Cruz Alvarado-CARLA TTLO  Writing activity

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Cruz Alvarado-CARLA TTLO  Writing activity.docx

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Cruz Alvarado-Activity 2: Course Needs Assessment
After conducting a Course Needs Analysis, I learned that there is much more that we can do to support our Multilingual Learners through an online platform. This presentation will guide you to understanding the vision and context of this opportunity for a Summer School Dual Language Class offering.

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Cruz Alvarado-Activity 2: Course Needs Assessment

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Jigsaw Activity-Student Engagement and Interaction: In this activity I researched information regarding my topic on Student Engagement and Interaction.
Students who are engaged are more likely to complete your course and refer it to friends. It’s important to design the framework needed to help you improve student engagement, completion rates, and most importantly, student success.  Student’s Engagement represents the activities that contribute to their learning achievements and their sense of belonging to the academic community. These activities include interaction between staff and students and interaction between other students. It also includes activities other than those directly related to course work, such as leadership roles in student mentoring or study group facilitation.

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Top 5 List of recommendations for online learners and online teachers 

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Top 5 List of recommendations for online learners and online teachers 

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These are the best five recommendations (question 2), strategies and experiences from my own learning experience I created this document for students in my online class regarding how to be a successful online or hybrid learner. The document will be created with my future online syllabus in mind.

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Unit 2 Rubric: Detailed participation assessment rubric for an online or hybrid course.

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Unit 2 Rubric: Detailed participation assessment rubric for an online or hybrid course.

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Cruz Alvarado Digital Teacher Planner-Time Success

For this activity, I watched the video  5 Habits that Allow Me to Only Work Contract Hours and read Be Efficient, Not Busy: Time Management Strategies for Online Teaching for strategies on how I can manage my time when developing and teaching an online course. I created this digital planner (using the resources from Michelle Ferré in the video above) to help me organize my schedule and daily planning.

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 Cruz Alvarado Digital Teacher Planner-Time Success

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Following the models in the previous lessons, this is the information about my favorite artist. I included the basic information and added media that I thought would be interesting for our class and to my own students.  There are some good clues!  I uploaded this file to the discussion as well. Included is a picture of the art piece.

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2.3 Actividad 2-B: Artistas favoritos Adivina quién es Summer 2023

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Artifact 1: Online experiences and future development goals - Self-evaluation

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Artifact 1: Online experiences and future development goals - Self-evaluation

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Thinking about the skills and competencies that Jeff describes, I have experienced "remote instruction." during the past few years. The 2 criterias that I am doing well in and also improving is seeking out resources about effective teaching and learning online, along with resources related to the course and learner engagement is consciously designed and planned for when I plan online material.

The 2 goals that I have for myself as I develop my next online course is to really plan for the"Learning outcomes drive the course structure (unit themes and their ordering), which then drive the selection of resources and learning activities, and all of that drives assessments." I want to have an organized structure in which all components implement each other with the learning outcomes driving the structure. The next goal that I have is to have at the center "Can-Do statements provide learners the opportunity to self-evaluate and think critically about their language acquisition and metacognition. As a Dual Language Program, it's important that I support students with their language acquisition and that I am providing tools and opportunities for students to practice in the online course. (2020, Jeffrey D. Samuels).

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Artifact 2: Favorite Activity that Uses Tech

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Artifact 2: Favorite Activity that Uses Tech

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Teacher creates a Jamboard to share with the students. A question (s) can be viewed on each page. You can add multiple pages in your Jamboard. Students can interact with the question by adding sticky notes, adding an image, shapes, writing and adding text boxes.

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Steven Hope, Head of Independent Learning, Leeds City College

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Google Jamboard: Collaborative Digital Whiteboard | Google Workspace for Education - Google for Education

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Liveworksheets.com - Interactive worksheets maker for all

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Liveworksheets transforms your traditional printable worksheets into self-correcting interactive exercises that the students can do online and send to the

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Interpretive Activity - listening activity (4.1 A2)

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Interpretive Activity - listening activity (4.1 A2)

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Here is the interpretive Listening Activity that I aligned with my Unit 2 Lesson.

Context: Spanish Bilingual 3rd Grade Level Students

Lesson Can-Do Statement Addressed: I can describe the characteristics, structures, and behavior of Crayfish.

Communicative Mode: Interpretive, video

Delivery Mode: asynchronous

Plan for Assessment: formative, students receive feedback after completing all tasks.

Materials needed / Technology tool or application: Google form, youtube

Estimated time for completion: 20 minutes

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Artifact 3: UDL group document - Barriers & UDL Solutions  

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Artifact 3: UDL group document - Barriers & UDL Solutions  

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One small step that I can take is to begin slowly, finding one thing that feels right and go with it first. I want to first continue reading more about UDL Framework and how teachers have used in their course. It helps me to connect with others who have implemented it first and then find one thing that I want to begin with. For example: providing multiple resources that students can use: Reading a book, magazines with visuals, audio books, apps that can read the stories to students and students can follow along as well. I'm looking forward to learning more and connecting with others.

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1A UDL in Action - Barriers and Solutions

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After watching the video about the Museo del Prado exhibit, describing something new is difficult, but not so much if we break it in parts. We created a TTLO community word bank in this Google document. These terms would be useful to describe a piece of art.

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I learned so much practicing applying the core principles for accessibility. My document is in Spanish and English, this is how I communicated with families and students

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Jigsaw Expert Group on Student Engagement and Interaction

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Jigsaw Expert Group on Student Engagement and Interaction

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This was the presentation that Susana and I worked on together during our group collaboration time. The Jigsaw Expert Group on Student Engagement and Interaction was a great way to interact and collaborate with other colleagues in this course. My partner and I shared our takeaways on Student Engagement and Interaction and then organized a presentation that was structured into the areas that we found the most important to share back to our group. I think overall, this worked out very well and we learned about the challenges and tips and strategies that we can take with us.

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Jigsaw Expert Group on Student Engagement and Interaction

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Presentational Activity - speaking activity (4.2 A2)

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Presentational Activity - speaking activity (4.2 A2)

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Context: 3rd Grade Students- Dual Language

Lesson Can-Do Statement Addressed: I can describe the Minnesota weather and the monuments, I can locate a state that I have visited, the weather and the monuments that I can find there.

Communicative Mode: (Presentational - spoken or written text)

Delivery Mode: asynchronous

Plan for Assessment: Students will receive feedback after they have posted the assignment

Materials needed / Technology tool or application: Record on Loom or Screencastify

Estimated time for completion: 30-45 min

2. Create detailed student instructions for the activity
In this video, I will be teaching you about geography, specifically focusing on the weather and monuments in Minnesota. I will describe the different types of weather in Minnesota throughout the seasons and highlight some popular monuments, such as the Spoonbridge and Cherry and the Mall of America. I will also encourage you to choose a state from the map and share your experiences or research about the weather and monuments there. Get ready to expand your knowledge of geography!

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Geography Lesson: Exploring Weather and Monuments in Minnesota

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In this video, I will be teaching you about geography, specifically focusing on the weather and monuments in Minnesota. I will describe the different types of weather in Minnesota throughout the seasons and highlight some popular monuments, such as the Spoonbridge and Cherry and the Mall of America. I will also encourage you to choose a state from the map and share your experiences or research about the weather and monuments there. Get ready to expand your knowledge of geography!

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Presentational Activity - writing activity (4.2 A4)

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Presentational Activity - writing activity (4.2 A4)

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1. Dual Language Welcome Back PD on Tuesday, August 22nd at Music Box Theater

2. Our Minneapolis Dual Language Educators are coming together for a Welcome Back to School Event!

3. We are going to learn about our Dual Language Program Model, our Language Allocation Guidelines and we will have a Special Guest Speaker. Please arrive early for parking and for Breakfast Pastries starting at 7:30am. Our Presentation will begin promptly at 8:00am, and will end at 3:00pm. During our Professional Development, we are going to learn about our Dual Language Pedagogy, connect with colleagues from your school or one of the other Dual Language Sites. We will take attendance when you arrive, there is no registration prior to arrival. We are looking forward to welcoming back our Dual Language Educators to our School YR 2023-24

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I worked with Susana, and together, we decided to meet using Google Meet. Feeling a little down, we thought it would be nice to watch a movie together. Initially, we planned to use an application called Teleparty to watch it online. We shared our screens to decide on a movie and discovered our shared love for romantic comedies. Eventually, we settled on watching "The Kissing Stand." We scheduled our movie night on Friday at 5 PM and decided to order Chinese food for dinner. Here's a video with our conversation.

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Language Support Activity (Grammar, Vocabulary, or other Introductory Material)  (4.4 A2)

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Language Support Activity (Grammar, Vocabulary, or other Introductory Material)  (4.4 A2)

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