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PANEL DISCUSSIONUnit & Lesson Design

Gradual Release of Responsibility

in STARTALK Teacher Training

Challenge

� Continuous Improvement Goal

○ Increase Learner-Learner Interactions

� Focus Strand: Unit & Lesson Design

○ Embedding the Gradual Release of

Responsibility Model in Teacher Preparation

Spring Conference

Understanding and Applying the Gradual

Release of

Responsibility Model

in Learner-

Centered

Classrooms

Recursive Process

Solution/Strategy

� Focus Strand: Unit & Lesson Design

○ Embedding the Gradual Release of

Responsibility Model in Teacher Preparation

� Pre-Program Teacher Training Week

○ Small group planning

○ Novice teacher demonstration + feedback

Potential Challenge #1

� Lack of time to re-write/re-teach

○ Power is in the doing after reflecting

○ That is where the growth happens!

○ Reorganize training week

Potential Challenge #2

� Participants lose focus

○ Need progress checks

○ Plan for facilitation of release

○ Language Team Leader Reporting

○ Distributed Leadership

Progress looks messy!

Jennifer N. Carson

Program Director

jennifer.carson@vbschools.com

www.virginiabeachstartalk.org

PANEL DISCUSSIONUnit & Lesson Design

STARTALK Chinese DNA and Genetics

Summer Academy

Steven ChuangPrincipal of College Park Elementary School

What do we need to pay attention when

designing a lesson plan based on students’ age?

Research in cognitive neuroscience has yielded a more

comprehensive understanding of brain function. When

analyzing how we move between sensation and perception,

we describe two types of processing:

Bottom-up vs. Top-down

Processing

Bottom-up processing

Perception starts at the sensory input, the stimulus. Analysis of the stimulus

begins with the sense receptors and works up to the level of the brain and mind.

For example, if I flash a random picture on the screen, your eyes detect the

features, your brain pieces it together, and you perceive a picture of an eagle.

What you see is based only on the sensory information coming in. Bottom-up

refers to the way it is built up from the smallest pieces of sensory information.

Suggests that we form our perceptions starting with a larger object,

concept, or idea before working our way toward more detailed information.

In other words, top-down processing happens when we work from the

general to the specific—the big picture to the tiny details. In top-down

processing, your abstract impressions can influence the sensory data that

you gather.

Top-Down Processing

Is the development of pattern recognition through the use of contextual

information.

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PANEL DISCUSSIONUnit & Lesson Design

Creating Units for

Global Competence

Mary Curran

Lucy Lee

Hanying Yang

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

STARTALK 2017

Application Workshop

Outcomes

• I can explain global competence.

• I can design a unit and lessons that develop global competence.

• I can identify technological tools that support online literacy instruction.

What is global competence?

Global competence is

the capacity and disposition

to act on

issues of global significance.

Boix Mansilla and Jackson, 2011

Global New JerseyIn addition to linguistic and cultural competence, we promoted

– Global competence

• Interest in knowing others who come from different backgrounds

• Skills to interact with those who come from different backgrounds

– Celebrating multilingualism/multiculturalism

– Local-global community connections

– The multiple identities of the students, families and community

– An action project to welcome newcomers

Global New Jersey

Meiling: Stories of Global Migration

Global New Jersey

Global New Jersey

United Nations

Sustainable Development Goalswww.

un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-

development-goals

Teaching for Global Competence

We should be taking the lead!

Mary Curran

mary.curran@gse.rutgers.edu

Lucy Lee

lleeclass@gmail.com

Hanying Yang

Hanying_yang@hotmail.com

PANEL DISCUSSIONUnit & Lesson Design

APPLICATION

WORKSHOPCreating Units for Global Competence

Rutgers University

Unit & Lesson Design