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LSTA-PILR Progress, ESL Levels 1-3 . This instructional power point was prepared by staff at Lower Columbia College Spring 2010. Initial Hopes. Define Task Identify Options Select Sources Analyze Content Evaluate Present Finding.
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LSTA-PILR Progress, ESL Levels 1-3 This instructional power point was prepared by staff at Lower Columbia College Spring 2010
Initial Hopes Define Task Identify Options Select Sources Analyze Content Evaluate Present Finding Have students identify a product they would be interested in purchasing (such as a vacuum cleaner or dishwasher) Locate a place to purchase the item (such as an ad in the Sunday paper) Find a review of the item (such as from a neighbor or from the company’s web site) Compare different brands. Decide which one would be best. Tell the class what is decided.
PROBLEM • Marquita discovered that the students had so little computer experience that she couldn’t have them working with online sites. • She revised the program.
New Tack • Have students learn to use the yellow pages to find resources.
Phone Book Students: • practiced alphabetizing • learned to categorized • followed “see” references • found specific information in various sections of the phone book
Scenario to Plan • Marquita gave the students a story/scenario. • A protagonist had a problem, and had to find and evaluate information to solve his problem.
Students had to identify their own need. • Define Task • Identify Options • They had to write a question reflecting a need for information: Where is a good place…? • They had to identify one place – selected from the phone book - where they could get information about that need.
Instructor provided assistance. • Marquita looked up possible web sites or other official sources of information
Students had to find information. • Select Sources • Analyze Content/ Evaluate • Went to web sites. • Used drop down menus. • Used links. • Used yellow pages. • Used community resource guides. • Answered questions such as: how much, where, when…?
Student Successes • Define Task • Identify Options • Select Sources • Analyze Content • Evaluate • Present Findings • All students could ask a question • Some could identify options • They had trouble finding the information • They could evaluate for price only.
Analysis • There were up to 20 students in a combined Level 1-2 class - too many to teach this much. • Teaching both computer skills and information- hunting skills is over-ambitious for Levels 1-2.
To do this again Let students decide question Limit searching to personal and paper-based resources Build in more communicative tasks. Compress the time frame;