Extra Support for the Struggling Learners in Chinese Immersion

Hsiu Halligan FLAP assessment assistantYuying Chen 2nd Grade Chinese Lead teacher

What students need more support at Yu Ying?

Students who are:

• Challenged in Chinese

• new to the school and have never learned Chinese before

• modified RTI model

How are the struggling learners identified?

Struggling students are identified by:

• their results on the CIRCLE (Comprehensive Immersion Resources for Chinese Language Education) Assessments

• teacher collected data from in-class assessments or class work

CIRCLE sample

How are the struggling learners identified?

How do we provide support for struggling students?

Two methods:

• school wide "pull out" support

• additional "in class" support

Booster Groups are designed to

• help bring struggling students up to the proficient level

• change each trimester or earlier based on student progress

• focus on reading, writing, listening and speaking

Pull Out Support Through Booster Groups

Booster Group:

• Support is provided by a staff member whose main role is to support struggling learners in Chinese

• Students are provided the additional support during the LA block

• Quick assessment to track students' progress

Booster Groups Program Details

How to record the students' progress ?

How to record the students' progress?

Booster Groups:

• 30 minute lesson plans are used (Yu Ying created)

• Student groups range from 1 on 1 to 3-4 students

Pull Out Support Through Booster Groups

K-4th Booster Group Program

Booster Group activities consist of:

o flash card review gameso character fun time

K-4th Booster Group Program

Booster Group activities consist of:o hand writing practice

K-4th Booster Group Program

Booster Group activities consist of:o reading storieso speaking lots of Chinese

Differentiated Instruction for the Struggling Learners in the Chinese Classroom

Differentiated Instruction for the Struggling Learners in the Chinese Classroom

• Listening & Speaking • Build confidence

• Provide support to allow them to produce Chinese with their higher performing peers

Differentiated Instruction for the Struggling Learners in the Chinese Classroom •

Goal: Reinforce the meaningful connection between the oral and written language with the content being studied.

Differentiated Instruction for the Struggling

Learners in the Chinese Classroom • Hand Writing Practice to build their fluency in

writing.

Struggling Learners in the Chinese

Classroom-Writing Program

• Goal: To have students make the connection from oral to written language using oral sentences that they already know.

Differentiated Instruction for the Struggling

Learners in the Chinese Classroom

谢 谢！