1. Guided Language Acquisition Design (GLAD)
A Promising Practice
EL Coordinator Meeting 2016
Simone Wertenberger
EL and MEP Director Henderson County Public Schools
Certified GLAD Trainer

2. OCDE Project GLAD® is: A rigorous professional development model
A collection of research-based, effective classroom strategies
An integrated approach aimed at supporting language acquisition and proficiency in grade level content standards

3. SIOP and GLAD
Balancing between instruction that intentionally supports sheltered instruction and ELD is vital when supporting English Learners.
GLAD provides multiple strategies within 5 component areas that support the delivery of Sheltered English Instruction in content areas.

4. 5 Component Areas of GLAD
Focus and Motivation
Input
Guided Oral Practice
Reading and Writing
Feedback and Assessment

5. Focus and Motivation
Objective: Focus students’ attention on content while engaging interest
Rationale:
Activate, focus or build background information
Spark interest, excitement and engagement
Set purposes for learning (student-driven)
Identify and assess prior knowledge

6. Teacher Made Big Book

7. Input Objective: To promote direct content instruction Rationale:
Allow universal access to the core curriculum
Provide direct instruction of concepts, skills and academic vocabulary Engage students in active participation
Pattern concepts auditorily, visually, kinesthetically and linguistically
Scaffold instruction with gestures, visual and real items for comprehensibility

8. Comparative Input Chart

9. Guided Oral Practice Objective: Improve oral language production
Promote collaboration through academic discourse
Promote meaningful interactions with academic language
support negotiating for meaning and metacognition
Guide opportunities to interact with text
Ensure ample time for processing and metacognition
Build self-esteem
Foster primary language support
Develop phonemic awareness
Promote 21st century skills

10. Sentence Patterning Chart

11. Reading & Writing
Objective: To develop competency in grade-level reading and writing skills
Provide print rich, language functional environment
Use variety of texts and media
Model and teach text patterns
Use interactively with oral activities
Balance cooperative and individual groupings
Stress the joy and purposes
Scaffold through whole class modeling, small group practice, individual use

12. Cooperative Strip Paragraph

13. Language Functional Environment
Leanna Traill’s Theory
Depicts a classroom dripping with accessible language
Learning is relevant to students’ learning
The charts are referenced and processed continuously
Students take ownership of the learning

14. Inquiry Chart (From Focus and Motivation)

15. Feedback From the Field
Project GLAD is a game changer in the classroom. I have never been this excited about a new way to teach before. It's logical, well organized, and really gets the students engaged and excited about learning.
The strategies are great research based strategies that work with all students, not just language learners. I feel like this is the first training I have attended that I came away with strategies and know how to implement in my classroom..
This is the best literacy professional development I've been to ( and I've been teaching for 25+ years). It is the logical , intentional progression of great strategies that have been out there for decades but disconnected from each other and a unifying rationale. GLAD is great!
My school is growing more and more diverse. These strategies support the 2nd language learner as well as increasing vocabulary for all learners. I also like how the strategies build independence and community in a world where we need to work together.I hope other teachers at my school will see the value in these strategies.
I have been teaching 6 years and this was the best workshop I have ever been to! I wish I had it my first year of teaching. I learned a lot. I am going to start small and hopefully implement more as I grow with the strategies. You all have made an imprint on my brain with your classroom implementation. I

16. OCDE GLAD National Training Center
Nicole Chavez
Diana Hernandez
(or just google GLAD Resource book)

17. Questions? Simone Wertenberger Henderson County Public Schools.
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