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WITESOLWisconsin TESOL
Opening KeynoteWe are the Architects of Student
Success: Blueprints from WITESOLMeadowbrook Rm, 9 a.m.-10:15 a.m.
October 15, 2010Country Springs Hotel
Joan Wink, Ph. D.Professor Emerita
California State University, Stanislauswww.JoanWink.com
THE “DUAL ICEBERG”REPRESENTATION
OF BILINGUAL PROFICIENCY
Adapted from Cummins, 1981Retrieved from: www.joanwink.com/scheditems/b-w-iceberg.pdf
Tove’s Water Lily
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Paulo FreireRigor and Joy
Wink, J. (2005, p. 2). Critical pedagogy: Notes from the real world. Boston, MA: Pearson.
Education is radically about love (Wink, 2005, p. 2)
Paulo Freire
A lot! More
Laugh
Have Fun
Strategies
Stories
Images
No one way.
Answers are within and from your colleagues
What is a blueprint?A sketch, design, layout
•A blueprint is not the building.
•It simply provides a way of constructing the building.
One way to build: Scaffolding
What is
scaffolding?
Who are we?We are builders, too.
We are building the future.
No one way to build.
•None of us can do it alone.
•It takes all of us socially construct our future
Lev Vygotsky
The Vygotskian Metaphor for Water
Three Big Ideas from Vygotsky:
•Thought and Language•Sociocultural Context•Zone of Proximal Development
Thought and Language
http://www.joanwink.com/scheditems/tesol-part2.pdf
Sociocultural context
•http://www.joanwink.com/scheditems/tesol-part2.pdf
Wink, J., & Putney, L. (2002, p. 44). A Vision of Vygotsky. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.
Instruction, after all does notbegin in school.
(Vygotsky, 1986, p. 208)
Student in the center
Zone of Proximal Development
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• What the child can do in cooperation today s/he can do alone tomorrow.
• Therefore, the only good kind of instruction is that which marches ahead of development and leads it.
• (Vygotsky, 1986, p. 188)
Zone of Proximal Development
A Head Taller in
Play
Play mediates the learning of children
In play, children become a head taller than their currents selves.
Vygotsky, 1978
Play Creates a ZPD
A PlantA Builder
An Explorer
Freemans
Nested Pedagogical Orientations
Transformative Multiliteracies Pedagogy
Scaffold Meaning
Extend Language
Activate PriorKnowledge
/Build
BackgroundKnowledge
Affirm Identity
LiteracyEngagement
↨Literacy
Achievement
The literacy engagement framework.Cummins, J. Transformative Multiliteracies Pedagogy: School-based Strategies for Closing theAchievement Gap. (2009, November, in publication with Multiple Voices for Ethnically DiverseExceptional Learners from University of Texas, Austin.)
School-based Language Planning: An Initial Framework
Literacy Attainment↑
Literacy Engagement↑
Scaffold Meaning
Affirm identity
Extend language
↔ ↔↔Activate prior knowledge / Build background knowledge
Scaffoldmeaning
Affirmidentity
Extendlanguage
Activateprior
knowledge
Two Perspectives on Teaching and Learning
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