It was a very interesting, fun and educational field trip that we all from Wellstone High did yesterday!
Our whole school went together. Terry asked me to take some pictures from the site. I took lots of fun activities that our students learned there.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Sunday, March 2, 2008
Lunar Eclipse 8/28/07 on Vimeo
I read Terry's post about the lunar eclipse. I like to watch it.There was an eclipe last month. I was watching it in the sky with my daughter LELA all night till it was over.The morning of the following day ,I went to work , my students talked about the eclipse too. But they had their own version of understanding about the elipse.I used the TeacherTube to show a short video clip about the elipses to my students , by ladyringo and the total eclipse by DBean 67770. I like the one that Terry shared with us more. Thank you much Terry!
Monday, February 25, 2008
Working with early Interediate ESL students
Working with early Intermediate Level ESL
Teacher should:
- Assist students to actively developing receptive vocabulary.
- Promote students to Produce one & two- word answers to short sentences, and make them recite and repeat poems, songs, and chants.
- Students can retell simple stories using pictures and objects, and can engage in dialogues, interviews, or role-plays.
*Provide opportunities for contextually supported activities
*Model processes expected of students while verbally guiding students through tasks
*Use scaffolding techniques through out lessons, assisting and supporting
student comprehension
*Expose students to patterned or predictable books
*Provide opportunities for expression in speech and print for a variety of purposes and audiences
*Structure group discussion
*Provide some real texts
*Provide opportunities to create oral and written narratives
*Structure a variety of realistic writing experiences and include opportunities for journal writing, student-authored stories . and language experience activities.
*Use higher level questioning techniques to elicit generative responses
(Accountable Talk,I FL)
***Use data from results of classroom activities & assignments to determine what to teach next.
Teacher should:
- Assist students to actively developing receptive vocabulary.
- Promote students to Produce one & two- word answers to short sentences, and make them recite and repeat poems, songs, and chants.
- Students can retell simple stories using pictures and objects, and can engage in dialogues, interviews, or role-plays.
*Provide opportunities for contextually supported activities
*Model processes expected of students while verbally guiding students through tasks
*Use scaffolding techniques through out lessons, assisting and supporting
student comprehension
*Expose students to patterned or predictable books
*Provide opportunities for expression in speech and print for a variety of purposes and audiences
*Structure group discussion
*Provide some real texts
*Provide opportunities to create oral and written narratives
*Structure a variety of realistic writing experiences and include opportunities for journal writing, student-authored stories . and language experience activities.
*Use higher level questioning techniques to elicit generative responses
(Accountable Talk,I FL)
***Use data from results of classroom activities & assignments to determine what to teach next.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Exploring Teacher tube
When I spent sometimes watching and listening to teacher tube, I found one talking about"Why let our students blog?" I read the followings answers from many teachers:
for ownership, for sharing, for collabaration, for discussion, for empowerment, for interaction, for aprticipation, for motivation, for engagement, for CONVERSATION, for creativity, for excitemnent, for REFLECTION , for blogging to LEARN, to extend the wall of classroom, to give students a learning environment and for writing to learn. Most students are very young on the video. Check it out, www.teachertube.com
At first , I was looking for plants & and animals video clips for my ESL Science class then I found someone talking about student blogging.
for ownership, for sharing, for collabaration, for discussion, for empowerment, for interaction, for aprticipation, for motivation, for engagement, for CONVERSATION, for creativity, for excitemnent, for REFLECTION , for blogging to LEARN, to extend the wall of classroom, to give students a learning environment and for writing to learn. Most students are very young on the video. Check it out, www.teachertube.com
At first , I was looking for plants & and animals video clips for my ESL Science class then I found someone talking about student blogging.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
The Center of Attention/Differentiated Instruction
I'm posting this teaching strategy for my student teacher.Birds are flying different ways too so our students them-selves learn at different pace.
Beginning Preproduction
-Simple repeated amounts of English instruction
-Rely on visual and other clues for understanding
-Students may illustrate characters, objects, and actions to convey meaning.
*Provide opportunities for active listening , incorporating props, visuals aids, and real objects into presentations
*pair or group students with more proficient speakers of English
*Conduct shared and guided reading that incorporate prior knowledge and involve the use of visual and graphic supports
*Use and involve students in physical movement and expression
*Involve students in literacy activities and provide students with exposure to written English
* Have students label and manipulate real objects and photographs or illustrations
*Pause during lessons to allow students to process and reflect on the information they are learning.
Source:Hampton Brown
Beginning Preproduction
-Simple repeated amounts of English instruction
-Rely on visual and other clues for understanding
-Students may illustrate characters, objects, and actions to convey meaning.
*Provide opportunities for active listening , incorporating props, visuals aids, and real objects into presentations
*pair or group students with more proficient speakers of English
*Conduct shared and guided reading that incorporate prior knowledge and involve the use of visual and graphic supports
*Use and involve students in physical movement and expression
*Involve students in literacy activities and provide students with exposure to written English
* Have students label and manipulate real objects and photographs or illustrations
*Pause during lessons to allow students to process and reflect on the information they are learning.
Source:Hampton Brown
Interesting SIOP website for teachers who work with ELL/ESL students.
Even though one may have been trained for SIOP strategies from Hamline University, it is good idea to refresh our teaching skills. Visit this website, I found it very useful, and I found more tools then I learned SIOP sometimes ago. Strategy of teaching Content Subjects to ELL students.www.siopinstitude.net
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Thing #32 WIKI /My cutest cat was gone!
When I use WIKI , I associate it to thing #10.
There are many complicated laws about copyright.
when I applied my thing# 10 in my classroom ESL L2, I used the copyright cartoon video with my students."copyright mystery".They seemed to understand .I went to www.gov./teachers.org
At the beginning I only used wiki as my dictionary later on I use it for many purposes.For example laws & copyright things.
There are many complicated laws about copyright.
when I applied my thing# 10 in my classroom ESL L2, I used the copyright cartoon video with my students."copyright mystery".They seemed to understand .I went to www.gov./teachers.org
At the beginning I only used wiki as my dictionary later on I use it for many purposes.For example laws & copyright things.
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