Aspire: Professional Development for Bilingual and ELL Paraprofessionals DAVID IRWIN LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES LLC

Goals Learn three principles to assist ELL students Learn the webbing method Learn the Aspire requirements

The Set-up When do you have the kids? When do you get time to check in with the teacher? What does the teacher want you to do with them? ◦WHO are the teachers you work with? ◦Dave will contact them about this course & the requirements This all affects how far we can go with improving things… What tasks do you do now in your job? What ELL strategies do you use?

What one district says…

Three Principles Increase thinking and study skills ◦Webbing (background knowledge) ◦Vocabulary Increase comprehensibility ◦Visual, hands-on ◦Graphic organizers Increase interaction ◦Academic conversation

Webbing – Before the lesson Lesson preview Checking background knowledge Brainstorming Checking in on the kids’ language use ◦Vocabulary ◦Discourse Add pictures when you can Kids do the grouping/categorizing – ◦let them talk

Webbing – After the lesson Add new learning: ◦more words and/or categories Correct errors Write a short summary of the lesson ◦Kids can draw pics to assist them

Aspire requirements Practice the skills Keep a journal Bring student work samples Name of story/assignment

For next time (Oct 21) Use the webbing strategy ◦Plan content with the teacher Bring student work samples (web charts) Bring classroom materials We will be working on vocabulary strategies