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Professional Development ACCESS Teachers NEPAL Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners Farhana N. Shah February 2011 Day 2

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Professional Development ACCESS Teachers

NEPAL

Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners

Farhana N. Shah

February 2011

Day 2

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Ground Rules/Session Expectations

Take responsibility for your own

learning and be willing to experiment

with the ideas and techniques presented.

Be respectful of those speaking (limit

sidebar conversations)

Take risks- participate and enjoy

yourself!

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Team Building 2

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Itinerary Session Expectations/Ground Rules

Team Building

Session Objectives

Feedback and Recap from Day 1

Vocabulary Building Strategies

Group

Session Evaluation

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Outcomes: By the end of this session,

ACCESS teachers will be able to:

Build vocabulary development concepts to support understanding

Create word wall/section in classroom

Think about cooperative learning strategy to use in classroom

Evaluate session

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Feedback and Recap Day 1

• More interactive activities

• What best way can be applied to explain student easily and understand easily?

• Building resources for reading, vocabulary building.

• Speed can be slowed

• Sharing soft copy

• Access details and syllabus

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Format of Strategies

Strategy

Importance of Strategy

Steps and Samples

Processing and Concluding Question

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TESOL Goals

1. Use English to communicate in social settings

2.To use English to achieve academically in all content areas

3.To use English in socially and culturally appropriate ways

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Strategies: Vocabulary Development

Why important:

• building of vocabulary for all learners essential, especially for ELL

• To gain information from reading, knowing meaning of words important

• Fluency is tied to vocabulary knowledge

Vocabulary Concept: Preview and Review

1. Strategy associated with ELL instruction. Students get preview of lesson in their home language.

2. Taught in English.

3. Reviewed in home language to make sure understand

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Strategies: Vocabulary Development

Planning Purposes:

1. Plan lesson and collect needed materials for lesson

2. Introduce vocabulary and key objectives

3. Teach lesson, as taught in preview session

4. Review key concepts and vocabulary with checking for understanding

5. Include additional practice time

Sample

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Processing and Concluding Question

How do you think the preview and review strategy may be useful to your students?

Is this a strategy you might use often? Why or why not? Turn to a neighbor and share your thoughts…

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Strategies: Vocabulary Development: WORD WALL

What?

• Alphabetical list of words

• Purpose of word study and vocabulary development

• Helpful to have variety word walls: high frequency words, bilingual, academic-related to content areas: science, etc.

Planning Purposes:

1. Create a section in the room

2. Use translations and illustrations

3. Refer to the word wall when words discussed or used

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Sample: Word Wall

Book

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Strategy: Cooperative Learning

What is it?

• Students work together to accomplish task

• Research says for CL to be effective, must be carefully structured: students prepared, open-ended assignments, and work needs to be group oriented

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Strategy: Cooperative Learning

Planning Purposes:

1. Make sure to start with “team building”

2. Assign groups

3. Assign roles in the groups

4. Assign task

5. Teacher monitoring and intervention

6. Report out to class

7. Debrief: look at group process

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Strategy: Cooperative Learning

Video Clip

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Processing and Concluding Question

Why do you think this strategy requires so much structure and

preparing the students?

How will you use this in your classroom?

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Work Time: Sample Directions

1. Read the story or sample of strategy assigned to your group.

2. Discuss important points about Word Walls/Vocabulary.

3. Be ready to share 3 points about the sample you read with the group.

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A Quote to Remember…

"A teacher affects eternity; she can never tell where

her influence stops." by Henry B. Adams

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Session Evaluation Please complete the evaluation

for today’s training.

It has been a pleasure working with you.

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ACCESS Details

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Reference

Herrell, Adrienne, & Jordon, Michael. 50 Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners. (2008). New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc.