ELL+Methods+-+Agenda+-+9.25.14

Targets:

 * I can explain basic principles of vocabulary teaching (word selection and pedagogy).

2:10 - 2:20 - Welcome and LCM (Greg)
 * Notetaker: Garred
 * LCM: Grace

2:20 - 3:00 - Principles of Vocabulary Teaching
 * [|Introduction]
 * [|Video Example]
 * Models
 * Teaching Ideas
 * http://www.cobbk12.org/cheathamhill/lfs%20update/vocabulary%20and%20word%20walls.htm
 * http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/7079?style=print

3:00 - 3:55 - Teaching Demos

LCM: Congolese
 * Try not to assume that a student will speak a certain language or will cooperate because they are from the same region given how mixed the culture is

CHEMS review
 * C: Caring
 * H: High Expectations
 * E: Explicit Attention to Language
 * M: Multiple Pathways
 * S: Social Support

Introduction How to Teach a Word
 * Classical: List of words, define, use it in a sentence, take a test
 * drawbacks: no language use, no connections, hard to assess actual learning
 * Rules:
 * Less is more
 * 4-6 words at a time, "high-mileage" words
 * Connect, Connect, Connect
 * with other words in context, to prior knowledge, synonyms/antonyms/collocations(common use)
 * Multiple Representations
 * visuals, L1 equivalents, student-friendly definitions
 * Review and Recycle
 * multiple meaningful encounters with the word, use it or lose it
 * See flowchart handout
 * TPR: total physical response
 * language quilts: 4 squares with word, translation, picture, and sentence frame
 * non-example: concepts that are not what you are talking about and why
 * spotlight language use: highlight student use of target words
 * sorting: categorizing words

Video Example
 * Math lesson on reading a thermometer (both a Math and language lesson centered around measurement)
 * 3-4 vocabulary words (Less is more)
 * Teacher models how to use the words in context, connects with students prior knowledge (Connectx3)
 * Review: Think/Pair/Share, words you learned today, card activity, white boards, word association (Review & Recycle)
 * Visuals, modeling (Multiple Representations)

Lugubrious model
 * Language quilt
 * lugubrious
 * Happy, cheerful
 * __________ people have an optimistic outlook.
 * repeat for other connected words (sanguine, etc.)
 * Cut up and mix the squares and have students sort them
 * Cut up and mix the squares and have students sort them

It is hard to teach words, but don't worry because we shall continue to work on this.