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Understanding Best Practices for English Learners February 5,2014

Understanding Best Practices for English Learners February 5,2014. Your Presenters. Sarah Southard Student and School Success Coordinator NWESD 189 ssouthard@nwesd.org 360-298-1260. Craig Shurick Program Manager, Focus Schools Office of Student and Schools Success, OSPI

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Understanding Best Practices for English Learners February 5,2014

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  1. Understanding Best Practices for English LearnersFebruary 5,2014

  2. Your Presenters Sarah Southard Student and School Success Coordinator NWESD 189 ssouthard@nwesd.org 360-298-1260 Craig Shurick Program Manager, Focus Schools Office of Student and Schools Success, OSPI craig.shurick@k12.wa .us 360-725-6380

  3. How do you eat an elephant?

  4. Learning Targets: • Deepen your understanding of one high-yield best practice for helping English Learners develop academic language AND learn academic content. • Begin to develop a plan for how to use this information with teachers to understand, coordinate and support instructional improvements in every classroom.

  5. Success Criteria: • Develop a list of strategies that will help teachers integrate and support oral language practice through student discourse every day in every lesson. • Be able to begin to plan for integrating expectations and support for oral language practice by ALL students in all classrooms.

  6. Why Oral Language? • Brain Research • Language Acquisition Research • Common Core • Instructional Frameworks

  7. What does Brain Research say about Oral Language?

  8. What does research say about the use of oral language for second language acquisition ?

  9. Where do we see oral language in the Common Core?

  10. Where do we see oral language in the instructional frameworks and evaluation rubrics?

  11. Learning Targets: • Deepen your understanding of one high-yield best practice for helping English Learners develop academic language AND learn academic content. • Begin to develop a plan for how to use this information with teachers to understand, coordinate and support instructional improvements in every classroom.

  12. Success Criteria: • Develop a list of strategies that will help teachers integrate and support oral language practice through student discourse every day in every lesson. • Be able to begin to plan for integrating expectations and support for oral language practice by ALL students in all classrooms.

  13. Ok… so oral language is important for teaching and learning… now what? • How do I fit oral language into my instruction? • How can ELLs participate?

  14. Incorporating Oral Language Practice into Instruction • Classroom Set-up • Flexible Groupings • Classroom Environment and Culture • Soccer Game vs. Track Meet • Guide on the side

  15. Incorporating Oral Language Practice into Instruction • Strategies for ALL Students • Turn and Talk • Think Pair Share • A/B Partners • Fish Bowl • Team activities with individual accountability • 10-2

  16. Incorporating Oral Language Practice into Instruction How do I support English Learners’ Participation? • Sentence Frames • Numbered Heads Together • Chants/Poetry • ELD Review • Allowing for Primary Language interactions • Including Language Objectives in each lesson

  17. Learning Targets: • Deepen your understanding of one high-yield best practice for helping English Learners develop academic language AND learn academic content. • Begin to develop a plan for how to use this information with teachers to understand, coordinate and support instructional improvements in every classroom.

  18. Success Criteria: • Develop a list of strategies that will help teachers integrate and support oral language practice through student discourse every day in every lesson. • Be able to begin to plan for integrating expectations and support for oral language practice by ALL students in all classrooms.

  19. Instructional Improvements in our Current Context • Common Core • Instructional Frameworks and Rubrics • School Improvement Work

  20. Coordination • How will you coordinate support for and expectation of oral language practice in your school? • Principals are Instructional Leaders • What is the role of the Leadership Team in your school? • How are you establishing, ongoing, job-embedded PD (peer observations, PLCs , coaches)?

  21. Implementation Tools • Staff Meetings • Resources for Teams • Tools in Staff Room • Observation Protocols

  22. Implications-What are the implications for you and your leadership teams’ school-improvement efforts?

  23. What else might you want to know before getting started? Question and Answer

  24. Learning Targets: • Deepen your understanding of one high-yield best practice for helping English Learners develop academic language AND learn academic content. • Begin to develop a plan for how to use this information with teachers to understand, coordinate and support instructional improvements in every classroom.

  25. Success Criteria: • Develop a list of strategies that will help teachers integrate and support oral language practice through student discourse every day in every lesson. • Be able to begin to plan for integrating expectations and support for oral language practice by ALL students in all classrooms.

  26. Evaluation In the “questions box” on your screen, please share your feedback about this presentation including the strengths and areas for improvement. Thanks so much!

  27. Thanks so much for your time today!Feel Free to contact me with questions or for More information Sarah Southard ssouthard@nwesd.org 360-298-1260

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