Framework for a Learner Friendly Environment
Presented by Alexandra ShaverEarly/Middle College at GTCC-Greensboro
NC New Schools Project Powerful Teaching and Learning Strategies
Framework and Protocols
Framework for a Learner Friendly Environment
Welcome novice and master teachers!
Please fill out an index card:
•Name• Language and levels•School
“Su atención por favor”•Find PINK notes page in Blue Folder
Scaffolding
Scaffolding is integral to reaching and stretching all students.• Write to support Speech production • Anticipation Guides/Activities• Baby Stepping Production (short and long)• Lower to higher level questions/prompts
Writing-to-Learn
• Create structure and support student literacy.• High-stakes vs. Low-stakes
vs.
• Openers, tickets out the door, protocols• Protocol: (Teacher experience) Carousel• Look for other Writing-to-Learn strategies
CAROUSEL
• How 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?
Collaborative Group Work
• Shape student leadership and academic ownership while creating community in your classroom.
• Protocol: Jigsaw, Study Groups, Collaborative Group Work Roles
• (Teacher experience) Block Party/Fiesta
FIESTA/BLOCK PARTY
• Theme/Main Idea• 2 details• Question (to check understanding or to clarify)
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…)
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.”
FIESTA/BLOCK PARTY
• Theme/Main Idea• 2 details• Question (to check understanding or to clarify) • (10 min.)
Literacy Groups
• Successfully 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
Literacy Groups
• Protocol: (Teacher experience) Literacy Group Roles
• Plain Folder:– Literature Circles Guide– Student Peer Evaluation– Literacy Group Roles (5 min.)– Article from Tony Wagoner’s Global Achievement
Gap (10 min + 5 min. + 10 min.)
Classroom Talk
• How 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
WAGON WHEEL
1. What 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.)
CHALK TALK
Which Strategy or Protocol will you use during the first week of school?
How?(5 min.)
Conclusion
Questions Parking Lot: sticky note (name, ?, email)
Comments Parking Lot:Sticky note (name and email optional)
Framework for a Learner Friendly Environment
Presented by Alexandra ShaverEarly/Middle College at GTCC-Greensboro
NC New Schools Project Powerful Teaching and Learning Strategies
Framework and Protocols
Framework for a Learner Friendly Environment
Welcome novice and master teachers!
Please fill out an index card:
•Name• Language and levels•School
“Su atención por favor”•Find PINK notes page in Blue Folder
Scaffolding
Scaffolding is integral to reaching and stretching all students.• Write to support Speech production • Anticipation Guides/Activities• Baby Stepping Production (short and long)• Lower to higher level questions/prompts
Writing-to-Learn
• Create structure and support student literacy.• High-stakes vs. Low-stakes
vs.
• Openers, tickets out the door, protocols• Protocol: (Teacher experience) Carousel• Look for other Writing-to-Learn strategies
CAROUSEL
• How 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?
Collaborative Group Work
• Shape student leadership and academic ownership while creating community in your classroom.
• Protocol: Jigsaw, Study Groups, Collaborative Group Work Roles
• (Teacher experience) Block Party/Fiesta
FIESTA/BLOCK PARTY
• Theme/Main Idea• 2 details• Question (to check understanding or to clarify)
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…)
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.”
FIESTA/BLOCK PARTY
• Theme/Main Idea• 2 details• Question (to check understanding or to clarify) • (10 min.)
Literacy Groups
• Successfully 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
Literacy Groups
• Protocol: (Teacher experience) Literacy Group Roles
• Plain Folder:– Literature Circles Guide– Student Peer Evaluation– Literacy Group Roles (5 min.)– Article from Tony Wagoner’s Global Achievement
Gap (10 min + 5 min. + 10 min.)
Classroom Talk
• How 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
WAGON WHEEL
1. What 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.)
CHALK TALK
Which Strategy or Protocol will you use during the first week of school?
How?(5 min.)
Conclusion
Questions Parking Lot: sticky note (name, ?, email)
Comments Parking Lot:Sticky note (name and email optional)
Framework for a Learner Friendly Environment
Presented by Alexandra ShaverEarly/Middle College at GTCC-Greensboro
NC New Schools Project Powerful Teaching and Learning Strategies
Framework and Protocols
