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Professional Development ACCESS Teachers
NEPAL
Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners
Farhana N. Shah
February 2011
Day 2
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
Itinerary Session Expectations/Ground Rules
Team Building
Session Objectives
Feedback and Recap from Day 1
Vocabulary Building Strategies
Group
Session Evaluation
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
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
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
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…
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
Sample: Word Wall
Book
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
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
Strategy: Cooperative Learning
Video Clip
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?
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
Session Evaluation Please complete the evaluation
for today’s training.
It has been a pleasure working with you.
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ACCESS Details
Reference
Herrell, Adrienne, & Jordon, Michael. 50 Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners. (2008). New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc.