Wilson EL Curriculum in a Flexible Setting by BetterLesson https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0 Reflect on each component and share a challenge or potential challenge you have had or are thinking about. en-us 2020-11-03 00:04:21 UTC 2020-11-03 14:27:40 UTC hello@padlet.com Time- Unable to fit it in- haven't been able to implement this piece https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886319617 2020-11-03 14:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886319617 Partner/Pairs: Difficulty with this. I usually just do breakout groups with more than 3 people per group https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886321019 2020-11-03 14:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886321019 Cannot do the turn and talks like we could in a traditional classroom. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886321029 2020-11-03 14:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886321029 Would like to see high level questioning to gauge their success https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886321349 2020-11-03 14:21:07 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886321349 Partner discussions can't happen and whole class discussions can be difficult. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886321781 2020-11-03 14:21:13 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886321781 There is a lot of "extra stuff" in here, and it can be difficult to figure out what to take out. It would be helpful to have someone from the county help us with this. porteash100 https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886321809 2020-11-03 14:21:14 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886321809 Hard to get ALL kids to share virtually- they don't have the in person opportunities- the discussion is somewhat limited due to bandwidth issues (either school or home internet issues) https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886321930 2020-11-03 14:21:16 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886321930 Have a hard time assessing digitally, especially writing. I feel like I'm assessing the same thing over and over again. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886322048 2020-11-03 14:21:18 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886322048 Partner work is hard to incorporate virtually https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886322080 2020-11-03 14:21:19 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886322080 partner talks and collaborating are challenges- have thought about trying break out rooms for these but haven't attempted it yet https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886322671 2020-11-03 14:21:27 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886322671 Difficult to access.. they are not in the same locations. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886323742 2020-11-03 14:21:40 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886323742 Not very user friendly-you have to go through the "weeds" to find what you need https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886324273 2020-11-03 14:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886324273 https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886324668 Breakout rooms are great, but not feasible for a quick turn & talk, so a lot of the curriculum is based on teacher and whole group sharing]]> 2020-11-03 14:21:54 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886324668 Not user friendly--takes a long time to plan. I feel like the lessons do not "flow." https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886324884 2020-11-03 14:21:58 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886324884 Same as poster above-I have not figured out how to incorporate this due to time issues. porteash100 https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886325217 2020-11-03 14:22:03 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886325217 Assessments do not match up with state assessments, common assessments, or TE21 question types. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886325399 2020-11-03 14:22:06 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886325399 Formatting is different from county benchmark testing and state testing. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886325690 2020-11-03 14:22:11 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886325690 Smaller groups https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886325953 Work better for my group. Higher level learners like to share. Lower level students very reluctant.]]> 2020-11-03 14:22:16 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886325953 Struggling with how to account for reflection/peer support during writing https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886326158 2020-11-03 14:22:18 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886326158 Don't have time. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886327016 2020-11-03 14:22:30 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886327016 Had to find everything on our own. Constantly searching for things- did not have the books/resources- had to have them donated. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886327043 2020-11-03 14:22:30 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886327043 I love the assessments in EL curriculum-I think they really make students think and prepare them for life. However, the county wants us to constantly test kids with practice tests and real tests, and it is difficult to figure out which to focus on. porteash100 https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886327247 2020-11-03 14:22:34 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886327247 I wish we had editable documents already for students. I spend a lot of time creating editable assignments. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886327589 2020-11-03 14:22:40 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886327589 hard to fit it in and do it he way the curriculum suggests -not sure id the skills block would be the Language Dives? https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886327968 2020-11-03 14:22:45 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886327968 Unsure if the rigor is adequate to prepare our students for the state/county testing. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886327996 2020-11-03 14:22:46 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886327996 Without printed teacher materials, I find it very difficult to find what I need. I wish that there were hyperlinks to the things we need when they are referenced in a lesson plan or teacher guide. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886328115 2020-11-03 14:22:48 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886328115 The assessments do not use the same language as benchmark and state testing. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886328234 2020-11-03 14:22:50 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886328234 I don't know how to do peer editing. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886329975 2020-11-03 14:23:16 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886329975 I still do not have the trade books. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886330272 2020-11-03 14:23:19 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886330272 Virtual students do not have access to the trade books unless they are on a PDF. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886331155 2020-11-03 14:23:34 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886331155 I don't really use the protocols because they often are based around small groups and discussions, which are more difficult to do in a virtual setting. porteash100 https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886331177 2020-11-03 14:23:34 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886331177 We don't have trade books for the students. I do a lot of read alouds. I feel like students don't get adequate time reading on their own and pulling apart the text. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886331516 2020-11-03 14:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886331516 Small group work is difficult online. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886331970 2020-11-03 14:23:47 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886331970 Repetition of activities- students become familiar and comfortable sharing ideas for these activities. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886332103 2020-11-03 14:23:50 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886332103 Rubric is not often in kid- friendly language. Grading takes a lot of time. Hard for kids to submit digitally, especially when they have limited resources/internet at home https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886332259 2020-11-03 14:23:53 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886332259 I like the incorporation of more writing with the curriculum, however it seems we went too full into that for their learning and assessing. Would like to see a better blend of writing/questioning https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886332699 2020-11-03 14:24:00 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886332699 concerned about the rigor of assessments, as well as the actual paper resources. Are there any digital assessments already created? https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886332843 2020-11-03 14:24:02 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886332843 Our biggest challenges are that we have very spotty internet, somedays no internet, and also the book is very hard to follow. We feel like we are needing to pull a lot of extra resources for vocabulary, etc. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886332983

]]> 2020-11-03 14:24:05 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886332983 students become a little bored https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886333312 2020-11-03 14:24:11 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886333312 It's a challenge to figure out how to make this work virtually. There are so many pages with activities it was hard to find the teacher group and then adapt the activity to a virtual setting. But I did make a slide show using one of the activities for subject/predicate https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886333589 2020-11-03 14:24:16 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886333589 Same as many have mentioned above- I feel like lesson planning takes me forever because I have to weed through pages and pages of documents to get what I need. We were not provided with a printed teacher manual this year, so we have to go in and print what we need. porteash100 https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886334221 2020-11-03 14:24:28 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886334221 Dividing this up over two days often helps https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886334854 2020-11-03 14:24:39 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886334854 No time for this in virtual world. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886335412 2020-11-03 14:24:49 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886335412 https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886335507 Not sure if it fits here, but the language dives are not put in the appropriate places. They often fall in the middle of the lesson. I feel like it should be a separate lesson, and there should be more of them. ]]> 2020-11-03 14:24:50 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886335507 We are creating almost all of our assessments on our own because they seem very short, and not challenging in the workbook. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886336248 2020-11-03 14:25:04 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886336248 I LOVE the texts we have used so far. I enjoy reading them, and so do the kids! porteash100 https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886337103 2020-11-03 14:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886337103 I moved several pieces from the textbook into Google Docs/Slides so that I can intervene & give suggestions while they are writing/creating https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886337275 2020-11-03 14:25:22 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886337275 The lessons are too much. The students become bored easily. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886337920 2020-11-03 14:25:35 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886337920 Small groups have been difficult to facilitate, due to limited time, and differentiating is not provided so we are pulling different resources to do this. This causes a lot of extra time. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886338258 2020-11-03 14:25:41 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886338258 Using only a limited amount of outside wesbites (Google Classroom and Seesaw are what I use the most). It's too much for students and parents to keep up with a lot of different websites. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886338675 2020-11-03 14:25:48 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886338675 Students do not have access to the text in front of them for many of the lessons. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886339588 2020-11-03 14:26:04 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886339588 I wish their was small group materials (books) like our old curriculm had. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886340311 2020-11-03 14:26:17 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886340311 It's a challenge to have to change the assessments to a digital format. It is time consuming. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886341406

]]> 2020-11-03 14:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886341406 Google Classroom platform works well. NOT GOOGLE MEET. Google Classroom. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886341516 2020-11-03 14:26:37 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886341516 Don't have time. Also don't have the time to figure out how to make it work in the virtual world. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886342349 2020-11-03 14:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886342349 I have had success with teaching writing by using Google Docs, and conferencing with students about their writing while we both have the document in front of us https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886343359 2020-11-03 14:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886343359 We are far behind in getting required materials, we have to access most online, because our county didn't purchase them on time. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886343384 2020-11-03 14:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886343384 I feel like I am doing all the work. The kids just sit and listen. https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886344123 2020-11-03 14:27:19 UTC https://padlet.com/designteam/kbkm8og6x1302co0/wish/886344123