Lesson Preparation

Materials Needed:

Take note!

We will be modeling ML strategies to give you ideas for your classroom during these PDs

First Session Only:

ML Celebration Share Out

I have had great success with …

A positive outcome came from …

The students really benefited from …

An activity that worked well was …

An idea that proved to be effective was...

Content Objectives

Language Objectives

• Incorporate supplementary materials suitable for MLs into a summary
• Apply knowledge of students’ educational background and skills to adapt content to their language proficiency & cognitive levels

• Discuss and record supplemental materials that make lessons clear
• Discuss and record appropriate content concepts
• Discuss and record content adaptations

Desired Outcome

Include in a lesson plan:

• Concepts that relate to students, their backgrounds, and abilities
• Supplementary materials that make the lesson clear and meaningful
• Adapted content to students’ linguistic and cognitive levels

Oral Language Activity:

Carousel

Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol Features

Summarize 3. Choose content concepts appropriate for age and educational background level of students.

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📕SIOP Feature 3: Content Concepts Appropriate for Age & Education Background Level of Students (47-49)

Examples/Resources

Goal: each person adds one specific for a unit/grade level

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Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol Features

Summarize 1. Content Objectives Clearly Defined, Displayed, & Reviewed with Students & 2. Language Objectives Clearly Defined, Displayed, & Reviewed with Students

📕Presenting Objectives to Students (33-34)

📕Connecting Content & Language Objectives (46-47)

Examples/Ideas

Goal: Everyone include one idea or example

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Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol Features

Summarize 4. Use supplementary materials to a high degree, making the lesson clear and meaningful (computer programs, graphs, models, visuals, etc.)

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📕SIOP Feature 4: Supplementary Materials Used to a High Degree, Making the Lesson Clear & Meaningful (49-50)

Examples/Resources

Goal: each person adds one specific for your units/grade level

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Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol Features

Summarize 5. Adapt Content (text, assignments) to all levels of student proficiency.

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📕SIOP Feature 5: Adaptation of Content to All Levels of Student Proficiency (51-52)

Examples/Resources

Goal: each person adds one specific for your units/grade level

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Oral Language Activity:

Carousel

• Split into four equal groups at a set of posters
• You have seven minutes in a group to:
• Summarize on first poster
• Add examples and resources to the second poster
• Try to be specific to your content area & what you are teaching- tag with your content area
• Rotate clockwise & repeat three times
• Rotate to the posters you began at and read through all the additions

Content Objectives

Language Objectives

• Incorporate supplementary materials suitable for MLs into a lesson plan
• Apply knowledge of students’ educational background and skills to adapt content to their language proficiency & cognitive levels

• Discuss and record supplemental materials that make lessons clear
• Discuss and record appropriate content concepts
• Discuss and record content adaptations

Desired Outcome

Include in a lesson plan:

• Concepts that relate to students, their backgrounds, and abilities
• Supplementary materials that make the lesson clear and meaningful
• Adapted content to students’ linguistic and cognitive levels

Reminder:

We modeled an ML strategy through a Verbal Carousel to give you ideas for your classroom after this PD.

Homework for next PD:

Next PD will be Tuesday February 18th

• Apply something you learned today in your classroom.
• Submit what you applied on Application of ML Strategies Form to be entered in a drawing
• Read Making Content Comprehensible for Multilingual Learners
• Comprehensible Input pgs 103-116
• Interaction pgs 156-176
• Lesson Delivery pgs 214-225

Testing

• WIDA (World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment) is a federally mandated test our ML students take yearly that lets us know their proficiency in the English Language in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. All 690 Cyprus students identified as a ML MUST take this test, they cannot opt-out.

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• Students spend a minimum of 90 minutes working on academic-based questions for each section of WIDA. This means they are being tested on their academic English language skills in contents like science, social studies, and math.

Testing Dates

• JAN 7-
• Judy begins pulling Seniors for WIDA testing
• JAN 27-
• ELD classes start WIDA testing
• FEB 3-
• School-wide WIDA testing begins