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Project glad overview. What is glad?. GLAD ( Guided Language Acquisition Design) Incorporates research from many fields and organizes the strategies into a process Uses strategies that model/promote English language acquisition and academic achievement
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What is glad? GLAD (Guided Language Acquisition Design) • Incorporates research from many fields and organizes the strategies into a process • Uses strategies that model/promote English language acquisition and academic achievement • Provides students with opportunities for use of academic language • Communication and tasks utilize cooperative learning strategies • Instruction is centered on standards-based, integrated themes or units-Interrelates science, social studies, and literature
Glad instruction best delivered by: • Self-contained teachers whose instruction is centered on inter-disciplinary units or themes that interrelate science, social studies, and literature.
What kind of teaching is required to deliver GLAD strategies? • Teachers who have: • HIGH ENERGY! • the capability to deliver highly active and interactive lessons with a high emphasis on modeling. • an ability to administer lessons using total physical response and interactive student participation. • the ability to sequence between teaching strategies (EDI, collaborative groups, and independent work).
What tools are needed to instruct using glad strategies? • Low tech-high impact tools • Markers and white butcher paper
GLAD Delivery • GLAD is comprised of highly effective SDAIE strategies. They can be seen as synonymous. • GLAD tends to be more effective than SDAIE alone, because of the specified delivery model. • If you are using GLAD, you are doing SDAIE. • Small /flexible • groupings • Individual • work
Focus and Motivation • Cognitive Content Dictionaries • Big Books
Guided Oral Practice • Chants • Sentence Patterning Charts • T-charts
Reading and Writing Activities • Cooperative Strip Paragraphs • Process Grids
Small Groups/Flexible Groupings • Expert groups • Team tasks • Process grids • Small group shared reading • Flexible group leveled reading • Partner reading • And more…
Individual Work • Individual Tasks • Learning logs • Authentic literacy events • Interactive journals-reading and writing/choice • Silent accountable reading • Writers workshop • And more…
Extensions/Activities for Integration • Drama • Art • Special Projects • Virtual Fieldtrips • Group Work • And more…
Closure/Evaluation • Portfolios • Flip-Books • Tests • Self/Teacher evaluations • Home/School connection • And more…