Building Academic Language Session 3 12/10/15

REMINDERS Licensure Issues 1.ALL educators need 15 PDPs in SEI for re-licensure. 2.DESE requires evidence of impact of PD on your practice, so keep all the writing/lesson plans you do to attach to your PDP certificate. 3.SEI ENDORSEMENT is different from the SEI PDPs. (Only some educators require the SEI ENDORSEMENT.)

REMINDERS Resources 1.All slides, handout and supporting materials are on the NAPS website (Staff- Professional Development – scroll down) 2.NEW DOCUMENT: Compendium of Techniques

Where have we been? Session 1: Introduction Explain why there is an academic language gap linked to poverty Identify Tier 1,2, and 3 words in a text or discipline Explain the connection between increasing productive student talks and improving student learning Session 2: Techniques for Building Academic Language Develop and use effective word walls and anchor charts Implement one or more best-practice techniques for teaching vocabulary Design high-quality opportunities for student conversation (meaningful task, accountability, talk structure)

Where are we now? Agenda for today: 1. Sharing our learning from the techniques tried over the past 6 weeks View a video, create a poster, gallery walk from 3:00 to 3:30 2. New learning on the Five Core Skills for effective conversations 3. Planning time (1 hour)

OBJECTIVES: By the end of this session, you will be able to... Identify the FIVE CORE SKILLS for effective conversations in live conversations Design a lesson or series of lessons that builds one or more of these FIVE CORE SKILLS through a NEW TALK TECHNIQUE

Sharing Our Learning

Your poster should include … Description of the content/context and the technique used Impact on students (What did you observe: As a result of this activity, students were able to… In other words: How did this impact their learning?) Lessons learned (What did you learn from this exercise? How might you modify in future?)

Five Core Skills of Academic Conversation

Bad Conversations What’s wrong with this conversation?

Good Conversations

Skill #1 Elaborate and Clarify “Eleanor Roosevelt was a very important person in that time period.” “Why do you think she was so important”? “She was important because she gave lots of speeches and held press conferences.” “In other words, she was a public figure at the time.”

Skill #2 Support with Examples S1: “Climate change has multiple impacts on the environment.” S2: “Such as…” S1: “I read that Florida may be under water in 100 years.” S3: Remember hurricane Irene? My uncle’s house in Cape May was washed away. S4: How is that related to climate change? S3: Scientists say that more extreme weather events may result from climate change.

Skill #3 Build on or Challenge a Partner’s Idea SamI think Lincoln was more interested in the Union than in the abolition of slavery. AliWhat do you mean? SamThere is a quote that says he will preserve the Union, even if slavery is needed. AliThen he also says how bad slavery is in other quotes. He is famous for abolishing slavery and being one of the greatest presidents. Do you really think that preserving the Union was his main interest? SamWell, people can cover up their real beliefs to get what they want, even their whole life. AliI don’t know. Maybe he changed his mind over time. People can do that, too.

Skill #4 Paraphrase “A little girl named Goldilocks goes for a walk in the forest and comes upon a house where she enters and finds to her delight three bowls of porridge. The first one she tastes is too hot, the next too cold but the third one is just right so she eats it all up.” “So, what you’re saying is, Goldilocks broke into a house and ate all the oatmeal?”

Skill #5 Synthesize conversation points From a fifth grade conversation on a book about Ruby Bridges… LuisWhy’d she do that? MonicaI don’t think screaming back at them would’ve helped. Maybe they wanted her to yell at them so they could have reasons to not like her. LuisSo you’re saying she would’ve become like them. MonicaYeah, I guess. So, how do we sum this up? LuisRuby was brave by walking past yelling people. She forgave them to not be like them. She should forgive people like that you forgave that old man that yelled at you. Monica And not give in. Should’ve stopped going to school and forgiven them, but she didn’t.

Practice the FIVE CORE SKILLS

Discuss ….. “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceed our humanity” Albert Einstein Is Einstein’s sentiment relevant today?

Debrief Were some skills used more than others? Were some skills easier to use as a prompter or responder? What make some skills harder/easier to use than others?

Planning Time

“Many of the skills [for effective academic conversation] take a year to build, as do the relationships that support rich conversations” Zwiers (2011), p. 29