Megan Anderson Reilly Academic Conversations Overall Objectives Determine the purpose for academic conversations WHY Identify characteristics of Academic Conversations WHAT Implement strategies for supporting academic conversations HOW ID: 760736
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Amy VasquezChristina CarlsonMegan Anderson Reilly
Academic Conversations
Slide2Overall Objectives
Determine the purpose for academic conversations (WHY)
Identify characteristics of Academic Conversations (WHAT)
Implement strategies for supporting academic conversations (HOW)
Slide3Today’s objectives
Rehearse strategies that can be used in the classroom by
speaking and listening to my
colleagues
Correlate
Academic Conversations with
English Language Proficiency Standards
by
reading the ELPS and speaking with my partner
.
Identify behaviors of effective academic conversation
by
conversing
with colleagues
.
Write
a
lesson plan
that includes language objectives and
Academic Conversations in the next week
Slide4NORMS (page 30)
We listen to each other
We respect one another’s ideas even if they are different
We let others finish explaining their ideas without interrupting
Rehearse strategies that can be used in the classroom
Slide5Stand Up!
Please stand up when you hear a characteristic that applies to YOU (and your classroom).
Thanks, it’ll get your blood flowing….
Slide6Quotation Café (page 122)
To discuss the need for oral academic language
Participants (students) will predict,
s
ynthesize and interpret while using academic
terms
This strategy is best used at the beginning of a unit or before reading a substantial text
Slide7Quotation Café (page 122)
Instructions:
Read your quotation to yourself and think about it.
Form groups of 6-7 (one person with each colored quote).
Read or summarize your quote to your group.
Discuss its significance.
As a team, select one quote or one observation to share with the whole group.
Slide8Quotation Café (page 122)
Reflection: How might you use this strategy in your teaching context?
Slide9Yakima School District
16,782 students
5,376 ELL (32%)
1,744 ELL in the Secondary
1,122 Level 3 (64
%)*
YSD= Sheltered Instruction District
Every class is supporting
academic content
and
English language development
*
Based on 2014-15 WELPA scores
Slide10Importance of Oral Language
“
The National Literacy Panel
concluded
that high-quality reading
instruction
alone will be ‘
insufficient
to support equal academic
success
’ for ELLs, and that ‘
simultaneous
efforts to increase the scope and
sophistication
of these students’ oral
language
proficiency’ is also
required
.”
–
Claude Goldenberg,
2008
Slide11Only 4% of English Learners’ school day is spent engaging in student talk.Only 2% of English Learners’ day is spent discussing focal lesson content, rarely speaking in complete sentences or applying relevant academic language.Arreaga-Mayer & Perdomo-Rivera (1996)
Evidence of the Dire Need for Explicit Vocabulary Instruction & Structured Verbal Engagement in Linguistically Diverse Classrooms
10/2
Slide12ELL Shadowing Data
Academic Speaking
Number of times
Percentage of total time
Student
to another student
13/340
3.8%
Student
to small group
6/340
1.8%
Slide13Focus for YSD Sheltered Instruction
Language Objectives and English Language Proficiency Standards
Structured Interactions
Language Assessment
Slide14Language Modalities
Receptive Productive
Interactive
Academic Conversations
Slide15English Language Proficiency Standards
English Language Proficiency Standard 2
An ELL can participate in grade appropriate oral and written exchanges of information, ideas, and analyses, responding to peer, audience, or reader comments and questions.
Identify
which English Language Proficiency Standards correlate with Academic Conversations
Slide16ELPS 2
What do you notice about this standard across the proficiency levels?
What does this mean for your instruction?
Slide17Sheltered Classrooms=
Content AND language objectives
Read
Write
Speak
Listen
Slide18Language Objectives
Language is action! Language is the vehicle for the content.
What language do my students need to know to accomplish this content objective?
How can I move my students’ English language proficiency forward in this lesson?
Slide1910/2
What are some of the successes you have had creating language objectives for your class?
What are some of the challenges in creating language objectives?
Slide20Slide21Graphic Organizer Interview Grid (page 58)
Advantages of conversation
Slide22Academic Conversation requires…
Prompting and respondingGood listeningA destination (core thinking skills and key principles of content)Explicit instruction
Slide23Conversation dos and don’ts
Fishbowl
Don’ts
Dos
C
reate a CONVERSATION TIPS chart
Slide24Modelling bad and good conversation
Pages 29-31; 41-43; 56-57
How could you model conversation behaviors in your class?
Fishbowl?
Videotape?
https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/how-discussion-enhances-learning
Observation?
Mini Lesson(s)?
Slide25What is explicit instruction in academic conversations?
Modelling!
Repeated opportunities
Formative assessment
Feedback
Student metacognition
Slide26Making Conversations More Academic
Let’s dive into the Five Core Skills!
Independently, read pages 31-35. It’s:
The overview of five core skills
Information about the first skill, Elaborate and Clarify
Slide27Conversation Lines and Circles (page 28-29)
Structured Interaction: allows students to work on skills with extra supports
Conversation Lines: A and B
Slide28Conversation Lines and Circles (page 28-29)
Reflection: How might you use this strategy in your teaching context?
Slide29Now what?
Look at your lesson plans for the next week.
What
language do my students need to know to accomplish this content objective
?
How can I move my students’ English language proficiency forward in this lesson
?
How can I incorporate a strategy form Academic Conversations to meet my language and content objectives?
Plan to do a strategy from
Academic Conversations
(chapter 1-2) that we did today or that you read on your own.
Bring evidence to share next week.
Template provided
Draft a lesson plan to incorporate Academic Conversations in the next week
Slide30Today’s objectives
Rehearse strategies that can be used in the classroom by
speaking and listening to my
colleagues
Correlate
Academic Conversations with
English Language Proficiency Standards
by
reading the ELPS and speaking with my partner
.
Identify behaviors of effective academic conversation
by dialoguing with colleagues
.
Write
a
lesson plan
that includes language objectives and
Academic Conversations in the next week
Slide31Next session: February 10
Read Chapter 3: Lesson Activities for Developing Core ConversationsBring evidence of academic conversations: Template ProvidedThank you! Rehearse strategies that can be used in the classroom
Gots
Wants