Academy Classes for English Language Learners

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Kellygarcia23@gmail.com
"Tell me and I'll forget;
Show me and I may remember;
Involve me and I'll understand."
-Chinese Proverb
Academy Classes for English
Language Learners
Kelly Garcia: Simplyphysics.weebly.com

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Agenda
10 min: Introduction
40 min: Class/Demonstration:Sharing of Best
Practices
15 min: Facilitated Discussion: Questions
10 min: Closing: Wrap-Up and Session Evaluations

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Participants will be able to …
1) Identify culturally responsive
opportunities within assignments,
classroom, school environment
2) Make content accessible utilizing literacy
strategies
3) Utilize strategies to make projects more
manageable for English Language
Learners
Outcomes

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Who is your presenter?
Kelly Garcia
• Physics and Engineering teacher in New
York City
• Previous job aspiration: Famous musician
(didn't work out)
• Known for: bad jokes

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What does it mean to be culturally
responsive?
Respecting students’ language, culture,
and life experiences.

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Investigate Culture:
What types of culture do you see
when you look at your students?

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Student Internet Meme
How my professor sees us:
How we see each
other:

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Not only do students sometimes have different
cultures from you, they often have them from
each other.
• Different countries
• Different regions within that country
• Different experiences within this country
• TV, music, neighborhoods
• Different experiences with technology
• Some don't have it while others can hack
into your stuff

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So how can I respond to these
cultures?
• Allow different opportunities for
students to express their culture or
validate their experiences
– in their school work
– to each other
– to you
– in their school environment

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In their Schoolwork:
Old Project: Analyzing the DNA sequences
of Snorks (from biologycorner.com)
What the heck is a snork!?

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New Project: Analyze the DNA sequences
of the characters from your favorite TV
show “Adventure Time” on Cartoon
Network

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• Old Activity: Measure your book with
your ruler

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New project: Use a ruler to measure yourself,
create a scale, build a miniature “you”, design
furniture for your miniature “you” based on
your measurements, & build your furniture.

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Old Activity: Memorize Newton’s First Law
and be able to recite it.

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New Activity: Create a funny illustration
where you demonstrate Newton’s First
Law.
Here is an example:

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Examples of student work:

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Peer-to-peer
interaction,
questions, debrief
regardless of
language
(as long as it’s
professional)
Allow Language to happen!
Peer-to-peer interaction:

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Grouping should be intentional and
meaningful.
Groups for the sake of groups breeds
animosity.
Peer-to-peer interaction:

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"It's one thing to learn a topic. It's another thing to learn
that topic from me."
-Dr. Ignacio Lopez
Building Rapport is the
difference between this: And THIS!
Student-to-teacher interaction:

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Validation in the Environment:
Creating assignments and projects
together gives students a sense of
ownership
"I once made students think that it was
their idea to take a test. Afterwards, they
thanked me for the opportunity."

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Physics calculators have labels with student name.

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Literacy Strategies
• Interactive Graphic Organizers
• Purposeful Highlighting
• Think Alouds
• Recognizing Tier 2 Words

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nucleus
membrane
chloroplast
vacuoleHighlighting Tape
Interactive Graphic Organizers:

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Purposeful Highlighting:
Colors represent different aspects

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The orange lines are how I
show student to how to
summarize: What is the
main idea?
Green is the answers to the
questions.
Purple is the math.
Color coding notes can also help you point
out keywords or paraphrase:

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Color helps to
identify the step
where you “got
stuck”

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Think Alouds
Always have concrete examples or steps
illustrating abstract ideas.
Students always ask, "How did you get there?"
• write down every single step that I took
to get to where I ended up.
• allowing "soak time" so that they can
process.

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Think Alouds
What do I
visualize when I
think about this?

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Visuals are one form of “realia”.
Videos and objects are other
examples.
Videos need Subtitles
Think Alouds

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Tier 2 Words
Words can be broken down into three
levels:
1)Tier 1- easy words that usually
only have one meaning
2)Tier 2- words that can contain
multiple meanings or that are
more abstract
3)Tier 3-words that are specific to
that discipline

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Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3
Butterfly Table
Combine
Obstinate
Argument
Isotope
Simple harmonic
motion
Electromagnetic
spectrum
Can be easily
demonstrated or
clarified.
Can be abstract :
Combine objects on a
table, combine
chemicals in a
mixture, combine
ideas
Can be very high
level and
sometimes only
encountered in that
subject
Examples:

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Making Projects Manageable
• Backwards Planning!!
– Clear objectives, examples, and rubrics
• Structure
– Enough background knowledge &
resources
– Checklist of manageable goals

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Starting at the end and working your way
forward.
What are the main ideas?
• Essential Questions.
What are the end products?
• From here you can break down
what lessons you will need to
teach.
Backwards Planning:

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Example of expected product.
Snorks
vs
Adventure Time
Clear objectives and examples:

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Teacher reservations about projects:
• I don’t have enough time for projects.
• Students can just copy projects.
• I don’t like chaos.

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Differentiation:
Of product?
Of process?
Of information and resources?
Structure:

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Old Introduction:

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New Introduction:

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Old Instructions:
Uses “teacher” language & wordy

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New Instructions:
To the point & short using
everyday language

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Old project had
only a few
boxes for
calculations and
questions that
required one-
sentence
answers.

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Project with new instructions:

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Final Review
• Culturally responsive strategies:
–create opportunities for expression,
choice, sharing
• Literacy strategies:
–visual & interactive
• Projects:
–backwards planning & clear guidelines

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Kelly Garcia
Physics teacher in New York City

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