Common Core State Standards Follow-Up Day 1 Grade 6

1. Facilitators’ Training Common Core State StandardsFollow-Up Day 1Grade 6

2. PREPARING FOR SUCCESS IN ALGEBRADEMONSTRATION CENTER A Collaboration among: Los Angeles USD University of California, San Diego San Diego State University University of California, Irvine

3. Teaching & Learning Framework

4. LAUSD SDAIE Lesson Template

5. Session Objectives In this session, we will consider: • The pivotal role of language objectives in fostering students’ conceptual and language development and ways to write them using sentence stems • Using mathematical and language lenses to select the types of questions to ask • Vocabulary and steps to use to teach words • An activity to have student practice using academic and mathematics vocabulary

6. Language Objectives

7. Warm Up • There are 100 seats in a theater, with 30 in the balcony and 70 on the main floor. 80 tickets were sold including all the seats on the main floor. What is the ratio of empty seats to occupied seats? What is the ratio of empty seats to occupied seats in the balcony?

8. What is the meaning of 24x? The camera has a zoom lens ranging from a wide angle of 25mm to a full telephoto of 600mm. (Both 35mm equivalents) Thesetwo numbers produce a ratio of 1000:25or the equivalent ratio of 24:1 The ratio of 24:1 is represented in cameras as 24x

9. Language Objectives Objectives should be written for all four modalities:

10. Language Objectives • Identify what students should know about English and do with it in a particular task. • Support the students‘ development of English. • Language objectives help students learn language that supports their learning in math classes as well as in other contexts. • Language objectives include a verb (or verb phrase) Handout: (Developing Effective Language Objectives)

11. Task-Based Language Objectives • Task-based language objectives specify the language students need to learn to complete tasks in mathematics classes. • Language objectives emphasize the development of expressive and receptive language skills. • Language objectives are obtainable. • Language objectives are measurable. • Language objectives support the Common Core Standards.

12. Sample Language Objectives • Students will explainthe solution to a ratio problem using past tense verbs: like determined, concluded, found, … • Students will defenda position about ratios using present tense verbs (like maintain, contend, argue).

13. Sample Language Objective • Students will revisea paragraph in which they describe a proportion using correct present tenseverbs. • Note that language objectives are most effectively communicated using verb phrases: • Students will point out similarities and differences between two solutions using the words similar to and different from.

14. Sentence Frames • Students will _(verb phrase)_ using _(target language)_.  • Students will use _(target language_) to _(verb phrase)_.

15. Examples of Verbs/Verb Phrases Used in Language Objectives

16. Read pages 3 -5 of the handout.Put a check next to two objectives in reading, writing, and listening & speaking that you might use when teaching quadratic equations.Compare your choices with a partner. Sample Language Objectives

17. Target Language • The specific language students are supposed to learn. • What language teachers want their students to know to understand math instruction and to participate effectively in math lessons. • The target language could be vocabulary words or grammatical structures. • It could be a specific sentence structure (e.g., learned through a sentence frame). • The language has to be listed.

18. Key Points • Language objectives are communicated to students clearly, both in speech and writing. • They can be posted in the classroom. • They can be referred to before, during, and after a task.

19. Writing Language Objectives • Review the handout. • Work with a partner and referring to the example on page 7, write your own objectives.

20. Teaching & Learning Framework

21. Algebra: Questioning Strategies

22. Quality and Purpose of Questions • Teacher questioning has been identified as a critical and challenging part of teachers’ work. • The act of asking a good question is cognitively demanding; requires considerable pedagogical content knowledge (Shulman, 1987). • A number of research studies have shown that teachers rarely ask ‘higher order’ questions, even though these have been identified as important tools in developing student understanding (Hiebert & Wearne, 1993; Klinzing, Klinzing-Eurich, & Tisher, 1985; Nystrand, Gamoran, Kachur, & Prendergast, 1997).

23. Quality and Purpose of Questions • Based on 800 minutes of observations of seven teachers, Jo Boaler (2004) and her research team developed nine categories of teacher questions that were derived from an analysis of practice. • They did not invent the categories a priori, rather they studied different examples of the teaching in their sample and attempted to describe and name the different types of questions they recorded. • Their data show that when teachers ask more conceptual questions, students start to ask conceptual questions themselves.

24. Jo Boaler Questions Types • The question types have a mathematical focus Handout: (Table 1. Teacher Questions)

25. Questions: Tips for Promoting ALD • These tips have a language focus Handout: Questioning: Tips to Promote Academic Language

26. TEACHING WORDS Teaching Words It’s not enough to hold students accountable for learning language. We need to support their learning of language.

27. Teaching & Learning Framework

28. Best Practice: Teaching Words Vocabulary Teaching Technique • Repeat word 3 or more times • Show students a sentence using the target word from their textbooks • Talk about how it is used • Make up new sentences using the word • Have students practice using the word with partners • Remember that some students need more practice than others to use language accurately

29. Selecting the Right Words to Teach is Key Guiding Questions • Is the word unknown? • Will it improve students’ ability to understand the texts students read for your class? • Will students use the word in other assignments? • Will knowledge of the word lead to improvements in students’ knowledge of academic language?

30. What about academic words? What Words do Teachers Need to Teach? Averil Coxhead developed a list of 570 academic words that are used in a variety of academic disciplines.

31. Example of Academic Words Apply Assume Contain Select Maintain Access Determine Specify Minimum Release Survive Identify Inevitably Coherent Persist http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist/

32. Basic Steps to Teaching Vocabulary Step One: Getting the students ready and engaging their interest. Step Two: Teaching the word explicitly. Step Three: Providing independent practice. Step Four: Providing formative assessment. Handout: Basic Steps to Teaching Vocabulary

33. Step One: Getting the students ready and engaging their interest.

34. Step Two: Teaching the Vocabulary Explicitly

35. Step Two: Teaching the Vocabulary Explicitly

36. Step Two: Teaching the Vocabulary Explicitly

37. Step Two: Teaching the Vocabulary Explicitly

38. Step Three: Provide Independent Practice

39. Step Three: Provide Independent Practice • Take turns completing these sentences with the words inference, infer or inferred. • The incorrect results were based on an _________ • After the stock market crashed, the number of people ________ buying stocks would not be wise. • After the ________ that the teacher hated her, she gave up trying to do well in class. • After the success of Twilight, I can _____ that Breaking Dawn will be equally successful.

40. Step Three: Provide Independent Practice • Sentence Completion • If everyone refused to complete a questionnaire, I might infer that … • If a sample is not a random one, I might infer that … • If only 30% of the 50 students interviewed gave the correct response, I might infer that… • If a sample provides a good match for a population, I might infer that …

41. Step Four: Provide Formative Assessment

42. What to do about Content Vocabulary Proportional Teach it very carefully over days and weeks. Whenever possible, tables and charts to help students learn the meanings of new words.

43. Talking with Others Talking with others about ideas and work is fundamental to learning. All students, particularly second language learners, need opportunities to develop their cognitive academic language proficiency. Cummins, J. (1996). Negotiating identities: Education for empowerment in a diverse society. Ontario, CA.: California Association for Bilingual Education.

44. Conversations about Mathematics Classroom instruction should support bilingual students engagement in conversations about mathematics that go beyond the translation of vocabulary and involve students in communicating about mathematical concepts. One of the goals of mathematics instruction for bilingual students should be to support all students, regardless of their proficiency in English, in participating in discussions about mathematical ideas. Teachers can move toward this goal by providing opportunities for bilingual students to participate in mathematical discussions and by learning to recognize the resources that bilingual students use to express mathematical ideas. Moschkovich, J. (2002). A situated and sociocultural perspective on bilingual mathematics learners. MathematicalThinking and Learning, 4(2&3), 189–212

45. CCSS Standards of Mathematical Practices Source: Tools for the Common Core Standards

46. Mathematically Speaking Activity Teacher Instructions: • All students complete both mathematical tasks or problems. • Student pairs are formed. • Target vocabulary words are written on the MS chart. For lower grades, the teacher can fill in the words. • The two students write their names across the top. One student explains half of the completed task or a given problem to the other student as he or she tallies on the chart each time a target word is used in the explanation. Students keep talking until all target words have been used. • The other student then takes a turn doing the same.

47. Mathematically Speaking Activity Example Comparing Two Ratios – Grade 6 -- McDougal Littell Chapter 6 Section 1 • CA – Grade 6 NS1.2 Interpret and use ratios in different contexts (e.g., batting averages, miles per hour) to show the relative sizes of two quantities, using appropriate notations (a/b, a to b, a:b ). • CaCCSS – Grade 6RP – Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems. • 1. Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio relationship between two quantities. For example, “The ratio of wings to beaks in the bird house at the zoo was 2:1, because for every 2 wings there was 1 beak.” “For every vote candidate A received, candidate C received nearly three votes.” • 3. Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations. Handout: Mathematically Speaking

48. A Challenge: There is a lot to teach in all classes, especially in Algebra! English 1 2 Learners 3 4 5 Success Academic

49. To Teach the Language of Algebra… Helpful Necessary • Include language objectives • Provide language instruction • Provide language exposure • Provide sufficient practice • Provide feedback • Engage students

50. Lunch Enjoy!