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Making Science Accessible to the ELL Learner

Making Science Accessible to the ELL Learner. Mark Schnurstein Hiatt Middle School Des Moines Iowa http://hiattscience.weebly.com/ Mark.schnurstein@dmschools.org. Objective: TWL share techniques that work well with the ELL Learner Goal

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Making Science Accessible to the ELL Learner

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  1. Making Science Accessible to the ELL Learner Mark Schnurstein Hiatt Middle School Des Moines Iowa http://hiattscience.weebly.com/ Mark.schnurstein@dmschools.org

  2. Objective: • TWL share techniques that work well with the ELL Learner • Goal • I will have one new techniques that will help me with my ELL learners. • Agenda • Goals • Background • 9 things • Helpful Hints (What I Use) • Close

  3. Des Moines School District

  4. ELL ENROLLMENT TREND

  5. MAIN LANGUAGES & DIALECTS

  6. Reach ELLs: Nine Best Practices that Really Work http://inservice.ascd.org/education-resources/reach-ell-learners-nine-best-practices-that-really-work/ By Beth Morrow 1. Establish Routines • Classroom routines • Graphic organizers • Oral routines 2. Model, Model, Model • Model actions • Model thoughts 3. Make the abstract concrete 4. Give It Time • Wait time • Extra work time 5. Scaffolding time

  7. Reach ELLs: Nine Best Practices that Really Work http://inservice.ascd.org/education-resources/reach-ell-learners-nine-best-practices-that-really-work/ By Beth Morrow 1. Establish Routines • Classroom routines • Graphic organizers • Oral routines 2. Model, Model, Model • Model actions • Model thoughts 3. Make the abstract concrete 4. Give It Time • Wait time • Extra work time 5. Scaffolding time

  8. Monday 3/10/14 When you come in: • Get your folder. • Have paper and pencil ready. Goals: • I can identify the three boundaries and convective currents. Relevance • By understanding convection and the three boundaries you will be able to understand how earthquakes and volcanoes happen. Announcement: • Test on Wednesday • Iowa Assessments start April 1st Agenda • Warm Up • Plate Boundaries • Vocabulary • Monday – Plate Boundaries • Tuesday Tectonic Plates • Wednesday – Test • Thursday –Plate Tectonics shape the earth.

  9. Warm Up Define the following words • Convergent Boundary • Divergent Boundary • Transform Boundary • Convection

  10. Assignment • On one side of the paper draw and label the diagram on page 108 and 109. • On the other side of the paper draw and label the diagram on page 110.

  11. Divergent Boundary • When plates are moving away from each other. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw1kjSnG4mY

  12. Convergent Boundary • When two plates move toward each other. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep2_axAA9Mw

  13. Transform Boundary • When two plates slide past each other. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oLeKTvSIzQ

  14. Convection • Hot magma rises, and cooler magma falls making the plates move. • http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/eoc/teachers/t_tectonics/p_convection2.html

  15. Put it all together • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXDYoCqwSbM

  16. Exit Ticket • On a sticky note tell me/draw three types of boundaries.

  17. Helpful Hints- What I Use • Foldable • 4 square • 5 square • Books • Posters • Videos – Be careful!!!! • Hands on – I don’t have to use language to understand it. • Project based – I can work with some one to help me learn/understand. • Repetitive • Routine – • Announcements • Warm up/Review • New lesson • CFU/Exit ticket • relevant – How does this affect me when I have other things more important? Speaker for family, Food, Shelter, Gangs, • Be approachable • History of me!!!! • You don’t know me!!! • My family history

  18. Gallery Walk • Get into groups of 4 • On a new sheet of paper brain storm 3 things you thought was important, or that you use and could share with others! • Draw a picture to represent each one. • You have 5 minutes. • Send one person to tape your poster to the wall. • As you leave today look at each groups poster, and find three things listed that maybe you had not thought of.

  19. Questions/Ideas Making Science Accessible to the ELL Learner Mark Schnurstein Hiatt Middle School Des Moines Iowa http://hiattscience.weebly.com/ Mark.schnurstein@dmschools.org

  20. Resources • Any one that can help me to be a better teacher • All my students that teach me everyday • Beth Morrow - http://inservice.ascd.org/education-resources/reach-ell-learners-nine-best-practices-that-really-work/ • Dinah Zike - http://www.dinah.com/ • SIOP (Sheltered instruction Observation Protocol)- http://www.cal.org/siop/ • Keegan Teaching Strategies - http://www.kaganonline.com/about_us.php

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