Academic Language
What is Academic Language?
Academic language is the language of the school, content, and classrooms.
What are the types of effective feedback?
-Positive/ Negative
-General/ Specific
-Evaluative/ Corrective
-Congruent/ incongruent
What is the criteria of a lesson?
The criteria is how much or what quality a teacher is looking for?
What are low order questions?
Questions that require students to remember and recall.
What are the two main types of Scaffolding?
1. Verbal
2. Procedural
What is the Function of Academic Language?
The function is the purpose of the academic language as it relates to the central focus of the lesson. It comes from the language of the standard.
What is effective feedback?
Effective feedback is information provided to students that causes an improvement in learning as a result.
What are the key parts of a lesson?
-Introduction
-Pacing
-Transitions
-Closure
What are high order questions?
Questions that require students to evaluate new ideas and develop critical thinking?
What are the four different types of modeling?
1.Task & performance
2.Metacognitive
3.Scaffolding
4.Student Centered
What is the Demand of Academic Language?
The demands are the tasks that the students will be asked to do, related to the function. It relates to how the language is being used in the lesson.
General Feedback
What is Incongruent?
What is the behavior of a lesson?
What a student will be able to do
What are probing questions?
Open ended questions that require students to reveal more information or lead them in the right direction in answering the question correctly.
Teacher models first then students works through the task at their own pace.
Scaffolding Method
What are the Academic Language Dimensions?
-Vocabulary
-Syntax
-Discourse
Information of performance or results that is directly related to what the learners have been asked to focus on
What is Congruent?
What is the purpose of the closure of the lesson?
The closure wraps up the lesson by giving the lesson concepts further meaning for the students.
What is the overall question of a lesson plan?
The Essential Question
Teacher will walk through the process while they do a problem (Reading lessons, Math classes)
What is Metacognitive?
What is an example of tier 1 vocabulary for Academic Language?
Basic Sight Words
Value judgement on how well or poorly a student did
What is Evaluative Feedback?
What is the purpose of Anticipatory Sets?
Anticipatory Sets set the stage for students by tapping into prior knowledge.
Where can teachers get their question prompts?
Bloom's Taxonomy
Students learn from each other
Student Centered Modeling