2. Ground Rules/Session
Expectations
Take responsibility for your own
learning and be willing to experiment
with the ideas and techniques presented.
Be respectful of those speaking (limit
sidebar conversations)
Take risks- participate and enjoy
yourself!
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5. Outcomes: By the end of this session,
ACCESS teachers will be able to:
Build vocabulary development concepts
to support understanding
Create word wall/section in classroom
Think about cooperative learning
strategy to use in classroom
Evaluate session
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6. Feedback and Recap Day 1
• More interactive activities
• What best way can be applied to explain
student easily and understand easily?
• Building resources for reading,
vocabulary building.
• Speed can be slowed
• Sharing soft copy
• Access details and syllabus
8. TESOL Goals
1. Use English to communicate in
social settings
2. To use English to achieve
academically in all content areas
3. To use English in socially and
culturally appropriate ways
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9. Strategies: Vocabulary Development
Why important:
• building of vocabulary for all learners essential, especially
for ELL
• To gain information from reading, knowing meaning of words
important
• Fluency is tied to vocabulary knowledge
Vocabulary Concept: Preview and Review
1. Strategy associated with ELL instruction. Students get
preview of lesson in their home language.
2. Taught in English.
3. Reviewed in home language to make sure understand
10. Strategies: Vocabulary Development
Planning Purposes:
1. Plan lesson and collect needed materials for
lesson
2. Introduce vocabulary and key objectives
3. Teach lesson, as taught in preview session
4. Review key concepts and vocabulary with
checking for understanding
5. Include additional practice time
Sample
11. Processing and Concluding Question
How do you think the preview and
review strategy may be useful to
your students?
Is this a strategy you might use
often? Why or why not?
Turn to a neighbor and share your thoughts…
12. Strategies: Vocabulary Development:
WORD WALL
What?
• Alphabetical list of words
• Purpose of word study and vocabulary development
• Helpful to have variety word walls: high frequency
words, bilingual, academic-related to content
areas: science, etc.
Planning Purposes:
1. Create a section in the room
2. Use translations and illustrations
3. Refer to the word wall when words discussed or
used
14. Strategy: Cooperative Learning
What is it?
• Students work together to accomplish task
• Research says for CL to be effective, must
be carefully structured: students prepared,
open-ended assignments, and work needs to
be group oriented
15. Strategy: Cooperative Learning
Planning Purposes:
1. Make sure to start with “team building”
2. Assign groups
3. Assign roles in the groups
4. Assign task
5. Teacher monitoring and intervention
6. Report out to class
7. Debrief: look at group process
17. Processing and Concluding Question
Why do you think this strategy
requires so much structure and
preparing the students?
How will you use this in your
classroom?
18. Work Time: Sample
Directions
1. Read the story or sample of
strategy assigned to your group.
2. Discuss important points about
Word Walls/Vocabulary.
3. Be ready to share 3 points about
the sample you read with the
group.
19. A Quote to Remember…
"A teacher affects eternity;
she can never tell where
her influence stops."
by Henry B. Adams
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