1. Maximizing EL Achievement Lisa Homann, MAT/ESL, Ed.S. Kennesaw State EL Conference 2016

2. English Language Learners, all day, every day.

3. How much English do they have? Look at WIDA Can-Do chart for Mathematics Think about your students. What are they able to do during Math? How are they able to show their mastery of the content?

4. Teachers What opportunities have you given your ELs to demonstrate their content mastery at their level of English?

5. Math and ELs The bad news is: – Math has a language of its own. – Math has a specialized vocabulary. – Math is pencil and paper. – The language of Math does not lend itself to use in social situations. – We do not offer opportunities to use Mathematics beyond manupulatives.

6. Math and ELLs The good news is: – Math vocabulary has many cognates – Children have innate number sense. – Math concepts can be taught from simple to complex. – Math is predictable – We can increase academic achievement!!

7. What do we want our English Learners to do? Acquire English – Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing Master Content – Math, Social Studies, Science, etc. – Vocabulary and language content specific Perform on grade level Pass tests And we want it –yesterday!!

8. What do our students need to do? Learn social language Learn academic vocabulary Learn academic language and sentence structures. Perform academic tasks Demonstrate mastery of content

9. What do we as teachers need to do to meet the needs of our English Learners? Move beyond manipulatives. Increase opportunities for expression in the content areas. Meaningful repetition. Teach the vocabulary and content language. Know our student’s level of English. Know what students can do at different levels. Expect students to show what they know. Provide a safe and positive learning environment. Provide opportunities for students to show their learning at their level of English.

10. Strategies What should strategies do? – Increase and require students to think. – Require students to use content vocabulary and language. – Help students to use English independently. – Increase student achievement. – Actively engage students. – Provide level appropriate performance.

11. Strategies this afternoon Research based. Can serve more than one purpose. – Cognates – Content Glossary – Academic Language Tasks and Sticks

12. And now… Time for a math lesson

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14. Strategy 1: Use of Cognates What are they? How do they help? What are the pitfalls? How can they help student achievement? How can they help my Math instruction? Do all languages have cognates?

15. Strategy 2: Content Glossary Beyond cognates. – Lack of cognates for content area. – Lack of cognates in L1. Math Glossary. use of pictures words in English and L1

16. Content Glossary

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18. Strategy 3: Academic Tasks/Bloom’s Taxonomy

19. Strategy 3: Academic Tasks Question: What do we need to think about? Answer: 1. The content 2. The students’ levels of English 3. The language needed for each task. – Verbs – Adjectives – Sentences

20. Strategy 3: Academic Tasks What is the language needed? Moving beyond good teaching… List multiplication problems – I have – I wrote – Here are my problems – Look

21. Strategy 3: Academic Task Sticks What are they? What do the allow the students to do? What do they do for the teacher? How can you use them?

22. Strategy 3: Academic Task Sticks Directions Sticks are arranged based on levels 1-6 concrete to abstract. Students need white boards, markers, erasers, and a text book. Students take turns rolling die and completing task.

23. Strategy 3: Academic Task Sticks Tasks based on the 6 levels of academic knowledge – 1. Knowledge – 2. Comprehension – 3. Application – 4. Analysis – 5. Synthesis – 6. Evaluation

24. Academic Task Sticks Now it’s your turn! Using the Academic Word Wall create write a task for each level for an upcoming unit. Write the tasks on a strip of paper. Glue to chart paper..

25. Academic Tasks for Mulitplication List multiplication problems Label a multiplication problem Solve a multiplication problem Explain how to solve multiplication problems Compare repeated addition and multiplication Recommend one to a classmate Prove the rule of Zero in Multiplication. Compare the Zero rules of Addition and Multiplication.

26. Wrap up What student need to do. What students need to know. What teachers need to do. What teachers need to know. 3 Strategies: – Cognates – Content Glossaries – Academic Task Sticks

27. Strategy 3: Academic Task Sticks Let’s play!!

28. Our Work Knowledge 1

29. Our Work Comprehension 2

30. Our Work Application 3

31. Our Work Analysis 4

32. Our Work Synthesis 5

33. Our Work 6

34. Thank you! Thank you for attending my session. Your time and attention is greatly appreciated. Please feel free to contact me at: Lisa_homann@gwinnett.k12.ga.us