Dos & Dont's
This is the Instructional Assistant's primary responsibility.
What is to support students?
If/When you are going to be absent from your workday, you must do this.
What is enter an absence request into Kronos?
This teaching using students’ customs, characteristics, experience, and perspectives as tools for better classroom instruction.
What is Culturally Responsive Teaching
Which online game allows students to translate questions and answers? Quizlet, Quizziz, or Kahoot.
What is Quizziz.
If a student is off task I should:
a. Tell the teacher.
b. Give them a mean look
c. Redirect them to the correct task.
What is C. Redirect them to the correct task.
True of False? If the school does not have an elevator, and a student is unable to walk upstairs, it is okay for an Instructional Assistant to carry them.
FALSE!!!
You should always do this at the start of your workday.
What is sign in.
When you assist in the classroom, you should encourage students to be
a. engaged and on task
b. disengaged and talking
C. engaged and silent
What is a: Engaged and on task.
When a student wants to practice their pronunciation for their Science presentation in English, but a teacher or assistant is not with them, what tool could they use?
What is speak the presentation into Google translate in your native language and then translate to English. Listen to the English Pronunciation of each word .
( Google Translate Voice)
The teacher asks me to sit in the back of the room during direct instruction. What should I do?
What is tell the teacher that I need to be able to translate for the students and check for understanding as they are teaching. I need to be active in the classroom .
When receiving an email to "All Staff" you should never do this...
What is "Reply All"?
You should always do this at the end of your workday.
What is sign out.
This is one group for whom the book, Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain is intended.
Who is...
Classroom Teachers
Instructional Assistants/Coaches?
Instructional Leaders?
How should I translate a worksheet in the moment?
Use your camera feature on Google Translate.
Your teacher asks you to do something that you believe will not be beneficial for the student. Who should you talk to first?
A. The teacher
B. The ELD Coordinator
C. Administration
Who is the teacher.
True of False? It is permitted for an Instructional Assistant to be alone in a room with students?
What is...False.
True or False/ A Bilingual Instructional assistant should only work with students whose language is the same as theirs.
What is False.
You start to feel unwell during class, you should.
a. stay, the kids need you
b. tell the teacher and excuse yourself
c. leave the classroom and go home without telling anyone
What is b. Tell the teacher and excuse yourself
A student is struggling to understand grade-level Science concepts such as heat transfer. How can I help them?
Provide Background knowledge
pre-teach vocabulary and follow up with context clues
Use AI to explain it at their level of understanding.
You feel like your ELD coordinator is not considering you when he or she creates your schedule.
Who should you talk to first?
A. Your administrator
B. Your ELD Coordinator
Who is B. Your ELD Coordinator
True of False?
If a parent approaches you, it is okay for you to share your thoughts on their child's experience in the classroom/school?
What is no, defer to the teacher.
True/ False As a bilingual assistant, you may have resource students, special education students and general education students that you work with.
What is True.
If you hear a student use a derrogatory or negative term towards another student or colleague you should
a. Call home
b. Talk to the student about the meaning of what they just said.
C. Let the teacher know.
What is b or c.
You speak Spanish, but are calling a parent who is Russian speaking to tell them about a situation in class concerning their child. How will you communicate?
I will prepare what I want to say in Google Translate. I will translate into Russian and play the audio for the parent.
It is better to focus on just one student during class.
A. Yes.
B. No
C. Sometimes
What is C Sometimes.