Tuesday, December 12, 2017
SIOP Day 3 Continuing PD
• USE IT! Feel confident to try!
• Study Groups/PLCs/TLCs
• SIOP Training Workshops
• Co-planning/ Co-teaching
• Culturally Responsive Teaching
• Demonstration Lessons
• Coaching/Mentoring
• Focused Class Visits/Peer Observations
• SIPs
• Structured Discussions (Quarterly Conversations, book study, online forums)
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I have been writing language objectives, but reviewing everything today has helped me see some things I have been forgetting as I am writing them. I plan to work on this. After 5 hours of writing lesson plans for 6 grade levels at two different schools, I get very tired sometimes and forget to add everything into the language objectives. My goal is to focus on this more.
ReplyDeleteI plan to go back to the August 1-3 Training and revisit the power points you shared with us. I think I will be able to glean more from it now that I have spent the last 3 months in ESL. I would love to see our school use the SIOP book as our book study next year.
ReplyDeleteToday's PD was very useful for me. Seeing all of the pieces of the puzzle laid out helped me grasp a better understanding of what exactly a language objective should look like, and how important each aspect of the puzzle is. I am excited to utilize the cards while planning (we took pictures of each set) and to create some great kid friendly objectives :)
ReplyDeleteI have to always be aware of what I'm asking the students to do and make sure it is within their language capabilities and language levels. Sometimes I'm aware that what I'm asking is not, so I must make sure that I give them multiple scaffolds to meet and reach the higher level of language I'm requesting.
ReplyDeleteSo after attending the SIOP training today and being reminded of what we learned about with the Language objectives I have to say I have done much better about planning my lessons. I use academic language much more often and with the students. I use academic language much more with my students and have noticed they are using it much more often as well. My students seem to be doing, overall, better than my students did last year. I use the think pair share and write and this also seems to help increase their usage of the academic language and therefore become more successful.
ReplyDeleteDoes my assessment match my students’ language proficiencies?
ReplyDeleteWhat am I doing to modify for those proficiency levels?
I think that with SIOP I am getting closer to matching my students' proficiencies with my assessments. I say this because in teaching the specific language objectives and using supports, my students are coming up to meet the expectations. It is still difficult to assess in terms of writing. I definitely don't look at A-B-C grades in the same way a regular classroom teacher would. I struggle with getting my long-termers to step out and do more than my newer ELs.
Since the start of this PD in August it has been very hard to wrap my brain around the different features, but today it does make a little more since. It will take some more time, but with daily practice in class it will come. Without all 4 features it leaves a hole and students will have a difficult time grasping the task at hand.
ReplyDeleteLooking at the specific pieces of the language objectives helps to clarify how to actually make them work within my lessons. I hope to be more intentional with my language objectives.
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ReplyDeleteI will continue to write language objectives into my lesson plans. I'm hoping we will have a SIOP book study next year. I would also love it, it there was a team to create language objectives and support materials for each standard.
ReplyDeleteDoes my assessment appropriately match the language proficiencies of my students? I don't often differentiate assessment within one group (that is already differentiated).
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