Laura Machuca 2013 Training

and productsBrain-based Learning and 5E ModelSheltered Instruction StrategiesAGENDANavigate /Instructional Model and Best Practices in Instruction RecessLesson Plan workshopLesson Plan SharingConclusions and Questions30 min.1:00 hr.15 min.1:15 hr.

and are based on brain research that takes advantage on how people utilize their left and right brain hemispheres to attain long lasting knowledge and skills.Introductory Videohttps://www.dropbox.com/s/xmehyx8skqdbj5h/Video_Planeando_una_Leccion_con_Comprendo_v5.2.mp4

PK-K

K-3 Up to 500 English-Spanish media piecesOver the network district implementation700 vocabulary words800 printable activities3000 formative questions

1. Engage

2. Explore

3. Explain

4. Elaborate/ Extend

5. Evaluate

5 E Learning Model

and are based on brain research that takes advantage on how people utilize their left and right brain hemispheres for learning.How people learnLearn through senses and motion Represent reality by symbols using their imagination and emotionsUse logical and critical thinkingApply their knowledge and language

Effective learning occurs if students:

products support neural development and enhances the interdependent and integrated functioning of the left and right brain hemispheres to attain long lasting knowledge and skills.How people learn

BRAIN RULES by John MedinaWe are better at seeing patterns and abstracting the meaning of an event than we are at recording details.Emotional arousal helps the brain learn.Brain needs repetition to remember. The information is remembered when it is elaborated, meaningful, and contextual.The way to build long-term memory is to incorporate new information gradually and repeat it in timed intervals.Stressed brains do not learn the same way.Stimulate more of the senses at once.Vision is by far our most dominant sense.We can recognize and imitate patterns because of mirror neurons across our brain.

www.brainrules.net1. Exercise boosts brain power.

Sheltered Instruction Strategies and 5 E Model

Four Levels of Learning (1) (1) MT Aldrete based on Blooms Taxonomy

How people learn and are based on brain research that takes advantage on how people utilize their left and right brain hemispheres for learning.

Effective instructional design & pedagogyExpanding teacher capacity Written & performed by native Spanish-English speakersAcademic Vocabulary ReinforcementSongs, Music, Printable Materials and Formative Questions

What Makes Sparkito and Comprendo! Different?

AGENDA and productsBrain-based Learning and 5E ModelSheltered Instruction StrategiesNavigate /Instructional Model and Best Practices in Instruction RecessLesson Plan workshopLesson Plan SharingConclusions and Questions30 min.1:00 hr.15 min.1:15 hr.

Lets see for PK-K20132013https://www.dropbox.com/s/69zelyu622lv9sl/Video_Tutorial_Sparkito_General_v2.mp4

Lets see a video to navigate

https://www.dropbox.com/s/86hr8jvwubt7s2o/VideoTutorial_Comprendo_General_v1.flv

The Instructional ModelEngage studentswith Compren oor!Sing & Learn lessons2) Explore through imaginationReinforce vocabulary Check for understandingusing interactive or printable student activities (Explain & Elaborate)Evaluate using Comprendos formative assessments.

* Content is available in English and Spanish

Best Practices in State Objectives, pose Questions, and define Academic VocabularyChoose Comprend/ /o appropriate resources.Engage and connect to prior knowledge or experiences.Hands-on activities using five senses, promoting interest and joy in learning.Promote and develop academic language and thinking skills throughout the lesson. Students listen, visualize, repeat, and write vocabulary.

Explore using multisensory approaches.Teacher explains concepts. Students respond orally or in writing using complete sentences.Students share new knowledge in the whole group, bilingual pairs, or table groups.Students elaborate activities and expand concepts by applying new learning, using academic language, posing questions and answers.Teacher guides, monitors, and evaluates.Best Practices in

AGENDA and productsBrain-based Learning and 5E ModelSheltered Instruction StrategiesNavigate /Instructional Model and Best Practices in Instruction RecessLesson Plan workshopLesson Plan SharingConclusions and Questions30 min.1:00 hr.15 min.1:15 hr.

Protocol Part 1:

Select the topic and present it on each of the 5 days for ten minutes without interrumpting the video.Work with the vocabulary (repeat, identify and read) with the whole group of students. Teacher encourages students to repeat.Each student writes short sentences using the vocabulary words and makes drawings (using nouns and adjectives). Examples: Los seres vivos/ Living thingsMake graphic organizers or mental maps with the key words and drawings, or pasting images and using phrases. Work in small groups or with the students grouped in tables (use ompendo! activities). Students work in bilingual centers. The students explain verbally what they know about the topic using their mental maps and ask questions to their respective pair (turn and talk), or to the teacher.

Protocol Part 2:

The teacher may pause the video in order to explain and ask questions to the whole group.Students will construct sentences according to the complexity expected in each grade and to the progress of each student.In pairs, each one writes 3 questions in his/her first language and the other needs to answer them (Questions and answers).Do activities by pairs in the bilingual centers.Each student writes several sentences and organizes them in paragraphs by categories and keeping them in order. Starting in 2nd grade, the student will learn to start with an introduction, topic development and conclusion.Teacher evaluates by asking questions to the students. The students answer quick verbal and written exams.

Thanks for your attention!laura.machuca@eduspark.comConclusions and QuestionsEnjoy and

*Welcome everyone. We are excited to share our new digital content, Sparkito and Comprendo, created in collaboration by SUNBURST and EDUSPARK. These are excellent resources to develop bilingualism and biliteracy for both Spanish and English speakers.We will follow this agenda over the course of the next three hours, with the goal of understanding both the theory and practice in implementing Sparkito and Comprendo digital content. First we are going to start with a short video using our digital content. Then we are going to elaborate further on the theory and practice of brain-based learning, the 5 E model and sheltered instruction. And finally, we will explore the digital content in Sparkito or Comprendo with the goal of developing a sample lesson.***The ESS lineup is a complete solution from grades PreK-8. The Sparkito! Kinder program is a PK-K digital curriculum that offers fun and engaging activities that promote language skills for all English and Spanish learners. Comprendo! focuses specifically on the needs of K-3 and offers instruction in Math, Science, Social Studies, Language Arts and Music. The Sparkito! and Comprendo! programs are specifically designed to bring language learning to life via technology in your bilingual or dual language classrooms.

*The Sparkito ESS! is a PreK-K digital curriculum specifically built for bilingual or dual language programs to promote fluency, vocabulary and content mastery in both English and Spanish across core subjects. Sparkito offers interactive media, songs, vocabulary and student activities arranged in thematic units.AISD will provide online access for all bilingual or dual language PK-K teachers.*K-3 digital curriculum and instructional resources to support Dual Language Program with more than 500 interactive media, 800 printable activities, 700 academic vocabulary and 3000 formative assessments questions across core subjects. Math and Science are aligned to TEKS. Language Arts, Social Studies and Music can be search by topic to match some standards. All instructional content is instantly switchable between English and Spanish.AISD will provide a Teacher Installation available for K-3 dual language teachers and a STUDENT INSTALLATION available for your bilingual centers or labs. 1. Engage Question or event to capture students interest. Some connections between what they know and what they can do.2. Explore through manipulate materials, hands-on activities and guidence. Digital content could also be used to explore. For example to explore planets or the cell through virtual reality.3. Explain Students can express their understanding of concepts and teachers can introduce a formal definition for a concept, process, skill, or behavior.4. Extend and ElaborateThrough application of new knowledge or skills, the students develop deeper and broader understanding, more information, and adequate skills.5. EvaluateStudents assess their progress toward achieving the educational objectives.

*When students have a strong foundation in concrete, symbolic, emotional, and social learning, they can move to the analytical-logical-critical thinking to deal successfully with problems, decision-making, projects, essays, or tests. Learn through senses and motion in real life experiencesRepresent reality by symbols using their imagination skills and academic vocabulary (technology-virtual reality), involve emotions as well as collaborate for learning.Logical and critical thinking to expand and comprehend knowledge and languageApply knowledge through experiments, tests, essays, projects, rubrics..etc.

*Using ESS digital contents, students have a multisensory experience that caters to different Learning Styles. Through this approach the likelihood of retention is increased. Blooms taxonomy is very useful to understand the left hemisphere processes. But you could add other verbs to describe the right brain hemisphere impact on education and use ESS products to enhance these important learning skills.

*We can integrate the 5E Model, the neurological approach on learning and the sheltered instruction strategies for planning efective lessons.Antes de explicar los conceptos y pedir a los alumnos elaborar oraciones o discutir sobre un tema, es recomendable exponer al alumno a presentaciones animadas, como videos o canciones, para introducirlo a un nuevo aprendizaje o concepto, luego permitirle explorar con los sentidos y la imaginacin, usando la tecnologa, mapas mentales de imgenes, compartir lo que les gust o llam la atencin, usar mucho lenguaje corporal y mimica, dibujos o representaciones para familiarizarse con el nuevo concepto. Posteriomente los alumnos podrn crear rboles de preguntas y respuestas, escribir y aplicar otras tcnicas con un mejor resultado.

*La taxonoma de Blooms se puede enriquecer con muchos verbos que sugieren muchas y muy variadas actividades dentro del aula, como todo lo relacionado con explorar a travs de los sentidos y, especialmente importante, actividades para desarrollar su imaginacin y creatividad como: representar, dibujar, imitar, hacer mimica, bailar, cantar, versificar, etc.*Do you think this symbol represents all the theory we have been review? Yes, symbols are powerful for learning.**Supporting: new teachers, teachers teaching out of content area, non-Spanish speaking teachers.**Now transition in to live presentation of the Sparkito!*Now transition in to live presentation of the Comprendo!*Although there are a variety of ways to use the content, this is one very typical example of the flow of lesson delivery that a teacher would use. The lesson will begin with a fun and engaging sing and learn (which is also a perfect opportunity for sing ALONG), and then will immediately flow in to reinforcing vocabulary. We will finish with some hands-on opportunities to check for understanding. *Note* Because 100% of the content is available in both languages, the teachers are always able to choose which language mode to be in at a particular time. For example, if your bilingual model is 50/50, the teacher could easily flip back and forth even in 1 instructional period. Now transition in to live presentation of the Sparkito!

****Now transition in to live presentation of the Sparkito!