ELL+Methods+-+Agenda+-+10.16.14

Today's Goals:
 * Prepare for our lesson at Garry!
 * Figure out where we go from here . ..

2:10 - 2:25 - Welcome and LCM (Garred)

2:25 - 2:40 - Debrief from Tuesday's school visits

2:40 - 3:35 - Plan Garry Lesson

3:35 - 3:55 - Midterm Conversation and critical concepts


 * Housekeeping:**
 * For Thursday, read: http://www5.esc13.net/thescoop/insight/2014/03/eight-language-program-models-four-linguistic-roads/ and additional reading to be emailed
 * Also, watch for an updated syllabus


 * Notes: **


 * School Visits**
 * At the elementary school, there is a very small space to work.
 * Spokane ELD teachers in the past had to cover 7 schools, now only 2. Shows that the ELL population is growing.
 * The teacher said she is happy Gonzaga is promoting the ELL Endorsement.
 * At Garry, we grappled with a lesson where we did not complete the assignment and went back to the basics including text comprehension.
 * Besides having language difficulties, they are in middle school, and that in of itself is very hard.
 * "Should I write this down?" students were able to point out evidence, but paraphrasing and putting evidence in their own words is difficult. Not a comprehension issue, it's an academic written language issue. Students understand the text, but do not know how to write it down. Other times students could write the answer down, bu had no clue what the answer was about.
 * Becomes about what I should write down so I can get the points and don;t get in trouble, but is it meaningful?
 * Struggled trying to figure out what the questions said. "How do you teach the word, how?" What's the definition for how?
 * How?
 * translate
 * Google it
 * examples
 * practice
 * Lesson for Garry**
 * ELP Standards 8,1
 * Look at the Google Doc for specifics...
 * 3 learning centers, each center will have 2 stations. 15 minutes each
 * 1. vocabulary
 * 2. Text
 * 3. Instructional conversation (leveled)
 * As Anny said, we are crazy that we are doing this, but schools operate within a day to day environment, so this experiment is a real world teaching example.