Lesson Prep & Building Background
These two objectives are clearly stated by the teacher and should be visibly written for students to see as well.
What are content and language objectives?
Teachers should demonstrate this by using clearly enunciated speech and gestures, repetition, and paraphrasing.
What is comprehensible input?
This allows students to provide peer support and opportunities to practice language through discussion with each other.
What is interaction?
This refers to the rate at which information and concepts are delivered during an lesson. It must be quick enough to keep students' interest, but not too quick to make understanding difficult.
What is lesson pacing?
Most experts agree that it takes this number of years to acquire academic English, the language needed to succeed academically and professionally.
What is 5-7 years?
This type of objective describes what the students will learn during the lesson.
What is a content objective?
Many English Learners need more time to formulate answers (up to 20 seconds), so teachers should provide this.
What is "wait time"?
Whole class, flexible small groups, partnering, homogenous, and heterogenous are examples of what?
What are grouping configurations?
A well-planned lesson with clear expectations and tasks, strong classroom management skills, and active student involvement will make this effective for 90-100% of the time period during which the lesson is taught.
What is student engagement?
This assessment is given every January to assess students English language proficiency
What is the ACCESS test?
This type of objective describes how the student will learn the content of the lesson They are based on your students' needs and they determine which of the 4 domains of language students will use to accomplish the objectives.
What is a language objective?
Using flexible grouping, leveled texts, adapted texts, modified assignments, and sentence frames are all examples of this.
What is differentiation?
Think-Pair-Share, Jigsaw, Numbered Heads Together, Four Corners, Roundtable, 3-Step Interview
What are cooperative learning strategies?
Throughout the lesson you want to use this type of assessment to determine whether to move on or offer additional instruction and support to your students. It can also help you and the student set goals.
What is formative assessment?
The acronym SIOP stands for
What is Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol?
These are the 4 domains or language skills students need to master in English.
What are listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
A method of teaching language or vocabulary concepts by using physical movement to react to verbal input
What is TPR or Total Physical Response
These materials are used by students to learn and practice content so they can forge connections between abstract and concrete concepts, especially in math and science.
What are "hands-on" manipulatives?
Games, Thumbs up/down, and dry erase Response Boards are all examples of this.
What is review and assessment?
814 are currently enrolled in ISD 109
What are ELL students?
Teachers do this when they directly relate the students' prior experiences, whether personal, cultural, or academic, to the new concepts being taught.
What is building background?
Be sure to avoid sayings like "an eye for an eye" or "it's raining cats and dogs"
What are idioms?
This activity allows students to build oral fluency, reinforce content knowledge, and practice language structures through the use of scripts performed in small groups.
What is reader's theater and role playing?
This type of assessment applies to real life contexts, includes writing, models, drawings, projects, etc., shows competency of a content objective, and uses rubrics to define levels of learning.
What is authentic assessment (summative)?
The WIDA consortium has compiled a list that can help teachers identify the kinds of language tasks students should be able to perform according to five differing levels of English proficiency and different grade level clusters.
What are CAN DO descriptors?