ESL Learners
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This document provides an overview of day 2 of a professional development session on strategies for teaching English language learners. The session agenda includes reviewing ground rules, team building activities, recapping feedback from the previous day, and teaching vocabulary building strategies. Specific strategies that will be covered are vocabulary preview/review, creating word walls, and using cooperative learning. The document outlines the importance, steps, and examples for each strategy. It concludes with a session evaluation. The overall goal is for teachers to learn ways to help English language learners build vocabulary and understand content.
ESL Learners
- 1. Professional Development ACCESS Teachers NEPAL Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners Farhana N. Shah February 2011 Day 2
- 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! 2
- 4. Itinerary Session Expectations/Ground Rules Team Building Session Objectives Feedback and Recap from Day 1 Vocabulary Building Strategies Group Session Evaluation
- 5. 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 Farhana N. Shah, 2011 5
- 6. 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
- 7. Format of Strategies Strategy Importance of Strategy Steps and Samples Processing and Concluding Question Farhana N. Shah, 2011 7
- 8. 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 Farhana N. Shah, 2011 8
- 9. 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
- 10. 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
- 11. 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…
- 12. 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
- 14. 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
- 15. 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
- 16. Strategy: Cooperative Learning Video Clip
- 17. 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?
- 18. 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.
- 19. A Quote to Remember… "A teacher affects eternity; she can never tell where her influence stops." by Henry B. Adams 19
- 20. Session Evaluation Please complete the evaluation for today’s training. It has been a pleasure working with you. 20
- 21. ACCESS Details
- 22. Reference Herrell, Adrienne, & Jordon, Michael. 50 Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners. (2008). New Jersey: Pearson Education, Inc.