Differentiate to Educate
Dynamic Diversity Definitions
ELL/ESL/LEP
100
According to wikipedia.com, this involves providing students with different avenues to acquiring content; to processing, constructing, or making sense of ideas; and to developing teaching materials so that all students within a classroom can learn effectively, regardless of differences in ability.
What is differentiated instruction?
100
In the SIOP model, this is the name for the programs that remove students from mainstream classrooms for a portion of the day in order to give them specialized instruction in English.
What is the pull-out instructional method?
100
As stated in the power point presentation, according to Izquierdo in 2010, there were 5.1 million of these in the U.S.
What is the number of ESL students in the U.S.?
200
According to the article on Differentiating Instruction from the power point presentation, this is an environment where resources, events, and extracurricular activities reflect cultural diversity and provide realistic and positive images of various cultural groups.
What is a culturally inclusive environment?
200
According to the YouTube video on Strategies for working with ELL students, this teaching strategy is a vocabulary instructional method in which students receive a card with vocabulary to review and then are instructed to share with a friend what they have and have a conversation about the vocabulary words.
What is the Tea Party?
200
According to wikipedia.com, this term is used by United States governments and school systems, was created by James Crawford of the Institute for Language and Education Policy in an effort to label learners positively, rather than ascribing a deficiency to them.
What is ELL?
300
From the YouTube video on the new instructional method, this is a comprehensive model for planning effective lessons that was developed in UC Santa Cruz.
What is the SIOP model or Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol?
300
From the Pearson School ELL website, the eight components in this model are: Lesson Preparation, Building Background, Comprehensible Input, Strategies, Interaction, Practice and Application, Lesson Delivery, and Review & Assessment.
What is the SIOP model?
300
According to the power point presentation, this is the amount of time it takes an ESL student to catch up with their native-speaking peers in academic language proficiency.
What is 5-7 years?
M
e
n
u