Includes 22 states and publishes guidelines for the education of English learners.
What is WIDA?
100
Big Idea
What is an idea that is important, enduring, and transferable beyond the scope of a particular unit, going beyond discrete facts or skills to focus on larger concepts, principles and processes?
100
The variety of checks of understanding used in Stage 2 that vary in scope, time frame, setting, and structure.
What is the continuum of assessments?
100
WHERETO
What is an acronym for an approach to designing effective lessons for well-designed curriculum?
100
An approach to designing a curriculum and/or unit that begins with the end--or goals--in mind and designs toward that end.
What is backward design?
200
ELP Standards (WIDA) and Georgia Performance Standards.
What are the standards that should be part of any curriculum for ELs in Georgia?
What are the standards that should be part of any curriculum for ELs in Georgia?
200
An enduring understanding.
What do we call insight into ideas, people, situations and processes, that allows us to make sense of what we know and to use our knowledge in different contexts?
200
Ongoing assessments that teachers use as part of the instructional process.
What are informal checks of understanding?
200
Hooks
What are powerful, thought provoking ideas to engage students immediately in a lesson?
200
Identifying desired results, determining acceptable evidence of achievement of results, and planning learning experiences and instructions.
What are the three stages of backward design?
300
Scaffolding
What is a temporary support to enable English learners with lower language proficiencies to engage with rigorous concepts requiring higher order thinking?
300
For example, to explain, apply, or show our understanding of different perspectives.
What are examples of facets of understanding of a concept?
300
Scrapbook vs. snapshot analogy
What is the difference between more traditional assessment and assessment in backwards design curriculum?
300
Iterative
What should be the nature of the process for learning both within and between lessons in a unit?
300
Alignment
What is the relationship between the elements in the 3 stages of backwards design?
400
Academic language learning through subject matter lessons.
What is the goal of every lesson and every curriculum unit we create and deliver as ESL professionals?
400
A learning approach where meaning is fashioned by the learner through sound curriculum design and coaching/facilitation of the teacher.
What is constructivism?
400
Performance Tasks as assessment tools
What are assessment tasks involving a project or scenario that yield a product or performance demonstrating students’ learning?
400
Pacing.
What is the process for deciding the timing of lessons within a unit?
400
Essential Questions
What are provocative questions to foster inquiry, understanding and transfer of learning?
500
Underestimating English learners' abilities to grasp complex concepts.
What is a common occurrence/problem/issue with mainstream curriculum and teachers who have English learners in their classes?
500
7 Revolutions
What are 7 areas of change that are expected to most impact the world in the upcoming decades?
500
GRASPS
What is a design tool used for designing performance assessments?
500
Adjusting input (language and instructional approach) and activities within a lesson to provide English learners with conceptually rich instruction.
How do lessons accommodate for varying language abilities of English learners?
500
A curriculum design approach where the same ideas are revisited across grade levels and subject areas in more and more complex ways. This approach honors the developmental stages of learners. (Hint: It is an application of UbD and backwards design.)