Framework for a Learner Friendly Environment
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This document outlines a framework for creating a learner-friendly environment presented by Alexandra Shaver. It introduces several powerful teaching strategies and protocols including scaffolding, writing-to-learn, collaborative group work, literacy groups, and classroom talk. Teachers will experience examples of protocols like carousel, fiesta/block party, literacy group roles, and wagon wheel to engage students and promote meaningful discussion. The goal is to shape student leadership, academic ownership, and community in the classroom.
Framework for a Learner Friendly Environment
- 1. Framework for a Learner Friendly EnvironmentPresented by Alexandra ShaverEarly/Middle College at GTCC-GreensboroNC New Schools Project Powerful Teaching and Learning Strategies Framework and Protocols
- 2. Framework for a Learner Friendly EnvironmentWelcome novice and master teachers!Please fill out an index card:NameLanguage and levelsSchool“Su atenciónpor favor”Find PINK notes page in Blue Folder
- 3. ScaffoldingScaffolding is integral to reaching and stretching all students.Write to support Speech production Anticipation Guides/ActivitiesBaby Stepping Production (short and long)Lower to higher level questions/prompts
- 4. Writing-to-LearnCreate structure and support student literacy.High-stakes vs. Low-stakes vs.Openers, tickets out the door, protocolsProtocol: (Teacher experience) CarouselLook for other Writing-to-Learn strategies
- 5. CAROUSELHow do you teach grammar?What is the best way to teach vocabulary?How do you organize class handouts? (pass out, pass back, grade, class, day of week)What solutions would you suggest for students speaking out of turn (or off task)?What is your opinion on full immersion language classes?
- 6. Collaborative Group WorkShape student leadership and academic ownership while creating community in your classroom. Protocol: Jigsaw, Study Groups,Collaborative Group Work Roles (Teacher experience) Block Party/Fiesta
- 7. FIESTA/BLOCK PARTYTheme/Main Idea2 detailsQuestion (to check understanding or to clarify)
- 8. Wagoner, Tony. The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Out Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need – and What We Can Do About It. Basic Books: 2008. p. 8,9 “Increasingly in America today—and in other countries, as well—there are two achievement gaps in our education systems. The first of these—well-documented, widely discussed, and the focus of education reform efforts for the past decade or so—is the gap between the quality of schooling available for most poor and minority children—and the consequent disparity in results. The second one is the global achievement gap, as I’ve come to call it—the gap between what even our best suburban, urban, and rural public schools are teaching and testing versus what all students will need to succeed as learners, workers, and citizens in today’s global knowledge economy. (continued…)
- 9. Wagoner, Tony. The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Out Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need – and What We Can Do About It. Basic Books: 2008. p. 8,9 (…continued) “As a country, we’ve been striving to close the first achievement gap by brining our poorest schools up to the standards of our middle-class schools—mainly through increased testing and greater accountability for progress, as measured by tests. However, it has become increasingly clear to me that even in these “good” schools, students are simply not learning the skills that matter most for the twenty-first century. Our system of public education—our curricula, teaching methods, and the tests we require students to take—were created in a different century for the needs of another era. They are hopelessly outdated.”
- 10. FIESTA/BLOCK PARTYTheme/Main Idea2 detailsQuestion (to check understanding or to clarify) (10 min.)
- 11. Literacy GroupsSuccessfully engage students in a text, novel or video using higher order thinking skills.Reading and Writing Children’s Books, Pamphlets, novels, articles, etc.Protocol: (Teacher experience) Literacy Group Roles
- 12. Literacy GroupsProtocol: (Teacher experience) Literacy Group RolesPlain Folder:Literature Circles GuideStudent Peer EvaluationLiteracy Group Roles (5 min.)Article from Tony Wagoner’s Global Achievement Gap (10 min + 5 min. + 10 min.)
- 13. Classroom TalkHow can I use student’s desire for peer conversation to promote meaningful discussion in the target language. Protocol: (revisit) Block Party/Fiesta, (Teacher experience) Wagon Wheel, Chalk Talk
- 14. WAGON WHEELWhat content or topic wouldyour students benefit from exploring through literacy groups?2. In what area do your students seem to need the most scaffolding?3. How might you use classroom talkto engage students in your world language?4. Does collaborative group work fit your philosophy of teaching? Explain. (15 min.)
- 15. CHALK TALKWhich Strategy or Protocol will you use during the first week of school?How?(5 min.)
- 16. ConclusionQuestions Parking Lot: sticky note (name, ?, email)Comments Parking Lot:Sticky note (nameand email optional)
- 17. Framework for a Learner Friendly EnvironmentPresented by Alexandra ShaverEarly/Middle College at GTCC-GreensboroNC New Schools Project Powerful Teaching and Learning Strategies Framework and Protocols
- 18. Framework for a Learner Friendly EnvironmentWelcome novice and master teachers!Please fill out an index card:NameLanguage and levelsSchool“Su atenciónpor favor”Find PINK notes page in Blue Folder
- 19. ScaffoldingScaffolding is integral to reaching and stretching all students.Write to support Speech production Anticipation Guides/ActivitiesBaby Stepping Production (short and long)Lower to higher level questions/prompts
- 20. Writing-to-LearnCreate structure and support student literacy.High-stakes vs. Low-stakes vs.Openers, tickets out the door, protocolsProtocol: (Teacher experience) CarouselLook for other Writing-to-Learn strategies
- 21. CAROUSELHow do you teach grammar?What is the best way to teach vocabulary?How do you organize class handouts? (pass out, pass back, grade, class, day of week)What solutions would you suggest for students speaking out of turn (or off task)?What is your opinion on full immersion language classes?
- 22. Collaborative Group WorkShape student leadership and academic ownership while creating community in your classroom. Protocol: Jigsaw, Study Groups,Collaborative Group Work Roles (Teacher experience) Block Party/Fiesta
- 23. FIESTA/BLOCK PARTYTheme/Main Idea2 detailsQuestion (to check understanding or to clarify)
- 24. Wagoner, Tony. The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Out Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need – and What We Can Do About It. Basic Books: 2008. p. 8,9 “Increasingly in America today—and in other countries, as well—there are two achievement gaps in our education systems. The first of these—well-documented, widely discussed, and the focus of education reform efforts for the past decade or so—is the gap between the quality of schooling available for most poor and minority children—and the consequent disparity in results. The second one is the global achievement gap, as I’ve come to call it—the gap between what even our best suburban, urban, and rural public schools are teaching and testing versus what all students will need to succeed as learners, workers, and citizens in today’s global knowledge economy. (continued…)
- 25. Wagoner, Tony. The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Out Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need – and What We Can Do About It. Basic Books: 2008. p. 8,9 (…continued) “As a country, we’ve been striving to close the first achievement gap by brining our poorest schools up to the standards of our middle-class schools—mainly through increased testing and greater accountability for progress, as measured by tests. However, it has become increasingly clear to me that even in these “good” schools, students are simply not learning the skills that matter most for the twenty-first century. Our system of public education—our curricula, teaching methods, and the tests we require students to take—were created in a different century for the needs of another era. They are hopelessly outdated.”
- 26. FIESTA/BLOCK PARTYTheme/Main Idea2 detailsQuestion (to check understanding or to clarify) (10 min.)
- 27. Literacy GroupsSuccessfully engage students in a text, novel or video using higher order thinking skills.Reading and Writing Children’s Books, Pamphlets, novels, articles, etc.Protocol: (Teacher experience) Literacy Group Roles
- 28. Literacy GroupsProtocol: (Teacher experience) Literacy Group RolesPlain Folder:Literature Circles GuideStudent Peer EvaluationLiteracy Group Roles (5 min.)Article from Tony Wagoner’s Global Achievement Gap (10 min + 5 min. + 10 min.)
- 29. Classroom TalkHow can I use student’s desire for peer conversation to promote meaningful discussion in the target language. Protocol: (revisit) Block Party/Fiesta, (Teacher experience) Wagon Wheel, Chalk Talk
- 30. WAGON WHEELWhat content or topic wouldyour students benefit from exploring through literacy groups?2. In what area do your students seem to need the most scaffolding?3. How might you use classroom talkto engage students in your world language?4. Does collaborative group work fit your philosophy of teaching? Explain. (15 min.)
- 31. CHALK TALKWhich Strategy or Protocol will you use during the first week of school?How?(5 min.)
- 32. ConclusionQuestions Parking Lot: sticky note (name, ?, email)Comments Parking Lot:Sticky note (nameand email optional)
- 33. Framework for a Learner Friendly EnvironmentPresented by Alexandra ShaverEarly/Middle College at GTCC-GreensboroNC New Schools Project Powerful Teaching and Learning Strategies Framework and Protocols