1. Constructive Conversation Smart Start Lessons
MELD
Constructive Conversation Smart Start Lessons
Secondary
Presented By
Josie Stevens

2. Purpose of Start Smart Lessons
MELD Start Smart
(Days1-10)
Establish Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Classroom Management
Administer SEL Linguistic Screener
Introductory Contrastive Analysis Lessons
Obtain a beginning of the year writing sample
Purpose of Start Smart Lessons

3. Time is ‘money’
The way you use your TIME will pay off big today!

4. A B Corners! Letter off A-B
Participants go to their assigned corners and discuss the questions on the charts.
Facilitator circulates and collects language samples to use later in the lesson.

6. Constructive Conversation Skills Posters
Two of the original constructive conversation skills posters from J. Zweirs

7. Constructive Conversation Skills Posters
Adapted elementary version of the Constructive Conversation posters.

8. Constructive Conversations

9. Constructive Conversation Skills Posters
Adapted poster for Elementary MELD

10. 6th Grade: How has social media impacted the way we communicate in the 21st century?

11. Rings of Culture AGE/YOUTH Age/YOUTH Gender Religion Class Nationality
Ethnic
(5 minutes)
Rings of Culture
Say: Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Pedagogy starts with ethnic culture but it does not stop there. Being responsive also means being responsive to national, class, gender, and age cultures. [Note, only if asked: being responsive to religious culture is done by being tolerant about the student’s constitutional religious rights and teaching about religions in history without preferring one]. CLR or culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy operates on the research-based premise that a student’s experience with cultural and linguistic practices shapes their behaviors and creates certain learning preferences that can be responded to maximize learning.

12. Constructive Conversations
MELD
Constructive Conversations
Start Smart
(Days 11-15)
Students will learn how to use the 4 Constructive Conversation Skills along with Standard English in order to…
Participate in a Range of Collaborative Discussions
Use Academic Language
Fortify Complex Output
Engage with Complex Text

13. California Content Standards
SL.6.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher- led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
L.6.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
L.6.2 Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
L.6.3 Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading or listening.
RI.6.1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

14. Discussion & Participation Protocols
Lessons at a Glance
Standards
MELD Objective
Depth of Knowledge
DOK
Essential Questions
Access Strategies
Discussion & Participation Protocols
Vocabulary

15. Lessons at a Glance
Opening!

16. Corners! A B

17. Participation and Discussion Protocols

18. Conversation Norms
To Video

19. Various Text Sources

20. Academic Vocabulary Development

21. Note Taking and Language Assessment
Resource Packet

22. Day 5+
Culminating Task
Students will create a blog that argues the ideas of self-expression.

23. Depth of Knowledge (DOK)
Recall & Reproduction
DOK 2
Skills & Concepts / Basic Reasoning
DOK 3
Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning
DOK 4
Extended Thinking
The lessons take the students along a continuum of task that progress through all 4 Depth of Knowledge levels.

24. DOK Level 4: Extended Thinking High-Cognitive Rigor
Analyze multiple sources of evidence, or multiple works by the same author, or across genres, time periods, themes
By day 5 of the lesson, students have progressed to tasks with a ceiling DOK level of 4 because of tasks that require students to
(click) Analyze multiple sources of evidence, or multiple works by the same author, or across genres, time periods, themes
Apply understanding in a novel way, provide argument or justification for application.
Apply understanding in a novel way, provide argument or justification for application

25. Constructive Conversations Start Smart Lessons

26. Constructive Conversations Start Smart Lessons