EL Family & Community Engagement
T/F:
When families are not meeting your expectations for engagement, start from a place of empathy and consider what else may be going on in their lives.
True
Provide 2 examples of a scaffold that an EL student could use.
Graphic organizer, sentence stems, word list with pictures AND their L1, Modeling/Gestures, structure pair work, English and/or bilingual glossaries, etc.
T/F: Educators should welcome ALL languages AND welcome L1 always for certain activities
True
What does HOTS stand for?
Higher Order Thinking Skills
spread kindness :)
Provide 2 examples of family and community engagement? How does the examples impact ML student achievement?
Event nights- example: Have a live wax figure exhibit; students select a famous person and conduct research on that person as well as present as if they were in a wax museum.
Home Visists
Invite members from the community to inform parents about their services, such as a local librarian, a nurse, or a firefighter.
Impacts- gives students purpose, explore peers' cultures, bridge school and home life, etc.
What is the term that means to use student strengths, value student's home languages and cultures?
Asset-based teaching
Play games, storytelling, using digital tools
Formal, social and academic are examples of different _____________.
Registers/ Language Registers
From Krashen (1985), strategies such as chunking speech, using technology, pre-teaching vocabulary, scaffolding, observing body language, repeating key ideas, having students work together in groups and using visual/realia are defined as _____________ ___________.
Comprehensible Input
The loser of RPS has to subtract 200 points from their total.
How can we effectively integrate culture into the classroom?
Questions our own implicit biases and teach students to do the same.
Which 2 terms allow for opportunities to have students reflect on their own experiences through content, AND opportunities to learn about and reflect on the experiences of others are important?
Windows and Mirrors
Windows give opportunity to learn and reflect on experiences of others
Mirrors give opportunity to reflect on their own experiences
These are examples of _______
Spanish- atención = English- attention
French- dentiste = English- dentist
Cognates- are words in different languages that are derived from the same original or root word
What is the difference between Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP)?
BICS- Language skills needed in social situations (informal social situations (informal register, pragmatics) used in meaningful social context, for example party, talking to buddies (2 years to master)
CALP- formal language needed for academic learning (CALP = 5-7 years to master).
If you decide to not write a poem, subtract 300 points
Please keep everything school appropriate :)
What are 4 strategies that can connect ELL families and set them up for success?
-Learn about your ELL population
-Integrate cultural traditions of your ELL families throughout the school
-Create a welcoming environment
-Make a personal connection with families
-Show that you (educator) that you value families' native languages
(https://www.colorincolorado.org/article/connecting-ell-families-strategies-success)
How can educators support SLIFE students?
-ongoing use of pair or small group work
-beginning lessons with conversational interactions
-emphasizing the connection between new learning and student's lives
This term means to use of more than one language to communicate in order to make full use of their linguistic resources
translanguage?
One term associated with Krashen's main theories means to focus on acquisition, avoid error correction which tends to slow down acquisition, language is acquired in a "natural order."
Natural Order Hypothesis
The whole group has to stay silent for two rounds or subtract 400 points from your team.
Shhhhh
According to Flamboyan Foundation, communicate high expectations, monitor their child's performance, support learning at home, guide their child's education and advocate for their child are a part of ______________
5 roles families play to accelerate student learning
Reading, writing, listening and speaking are components of what term?
Multimodal Learning
(expressive and receptive skills)
Complete the following scenarios using various language registrars. Pretend if you are greeting the person in each scenario.
1. Your Best friend
2. Your new neighbor
3. A park employee
4. A botanist giving a tour on native plants
1. hey, what's up?
2. Hi, how are you doing today?
3. Hello! How may I help you today?
4. Good afternoon, I will be giving you a tour today on native plants. How are you doing today?
Name 3 stages out of Krashen & Terrell's "5 Stages of Learning a Second Language" theory
1. Pre-Production (0-6 months)
2. Early Pre-Production (6 months to 1 year)
3. Speech Emergence (1 to 3 years)
4. Intermediate Fluency (3-5 years)
5. Advanced Fluency (5 to 7 years)
Pick a number: 1, 2, 3, or 4
Your selection decides your fate
1. gain 500 points
2. solve: What is the least common multiple of 9 and 12
3. give 500 points to another team of your choice
4. lose your next turn
2. 72