1. Framework for a Learner Friendly EnvironmentPresented by Alexandra ShaverEarly/Middle College at GTCC-Greensboro NC New Schools Project Powerful Teaching and Learning Strategies Framework and Protocols

2. Framework for a Learner Friendly Environment Welcome novice and master teachers! Please fill out an index card: Name Language and levels School “Su atenciónpor favor” Find PINK notes page in Blue Folder

3. Scaffolding Scaffolding is integral to reaching and stretching all students. Write to support Speech production Anticipation Guides/Activities Baby Stepping Production (short and long) Lower to higher level questions/prompts

4. Writing-to-Learn Create structure and support student literacy. High-stakes vs. Low-stakes vs. Openers, tickets out the door, protocols Protocol: (Teacher experience) Carousel Look for other Writing-to-Learn strategies

5. CAROUSEL How do you teach grammar? What is the best way to teach vocabulary? How do you organize class handouts? (pass out, pass back, grade, class, day of week) What solutions would you suggest for students speaking out of turn (or off task)? What is your opinion on full immersion language classes?

6. Collaborative Group Work Shape student leadership and academic ownership while creating community in your classroom. Protocol: Jigsaw, Study Groups,Collaborative Group Work Roles (Teacher experience) Block Party/Fiesta

7. FIESTA/BLOCK PARTY Theme/Main Idea 2 details Question (to check understanding or to clarify)

8. Wagoner, Tony. The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Out Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need – and What We Can Do About It. Basic Books: 2008. p. 8,9 “Increasingly in America today—and in other countries, as well—there are two achievement gaps in our education systems. The first of these—well-documented, widely discussed, and the focus of education reform efforts for the past decade or so—is the gap between the quality of schooling available for most poor and minority children—and the consequent disparity in results. The second one is the global achievement gap, as I’ve come to call it—the gap between what even our best suburban, urban, and rural public schools are teaching and testing versus what all students will need to succeed as learners, workers, and citizens in today’s global knowledge economy. (continued…)

9. Wagoner, Tony. The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Out Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need – and What We Can Do About It. Basic Books: 2008. p. 8,9 (…continued) “As a country, we’ve been striving to close the first achievement gap by brining our poorest schools up to the standards of our middle-class schools—mainly through increased testing and greater accountability for progress, as measured by tests. However, it has become increasingly clear to me that even in these “good” schools, students are simply not learning the skills that matter most for the twenty-first century. Our system of public education—our curricula, teaching methods, and the tests we require students to take—were created in a different century for the needs of another era. They are hopelessly outdated.”

10. FIESTA/BLOCK PARTY Theme/Main Idea 2 details Question (to check understanding or to clarify) (10 min.)

11. Literacy Groups Successfully engage students in a text, novel or video using higher order thinking skills. Reading and Writing Children’s Books, Pamphlets, novels, articles, etc. Protocol: (Teacher experience) Literacy Group Roles

12. Literacy Groups Protocol: (Teacher experience) Literacy Group Roles Plain Folder: Literature Circles Guide Student Peer Evaluation Literacy Group Roles (5 min.) Article from Tony Wagoner’s Global Achievement Gap (10 min + 5 min. + 10 min.)

13. Classroom Talk How can I use student’s desire for peer conversation to promote meaningful discussion in the target language. Protocol: (revisit) Block Party/Fiesta, (Teacher experience) Wagon Wheel, Chalk Talk

14. WAGON WHEEL What content or topic would your students benefit from exploring through literacy groups? 2. In what area do your students seem to need the most scaffolding? 3. How might you use classroom talk to engage students in your world language? 4. Does collaborative group work fit your philosophy of teaching? Explain. (15 min.)

15. CHALK TALK Which Strategy or Protocol will you use during the first week of school? How? (5 min.)

16. Conclusion Questions Parking Lot: sticky note (name, ?, email) Comments Parking Lot: Sticky note (nameand email optional)

17. Framework for a Learner Friendly EnvironmentPresented by Alexandra ShaverEarly/Middle College at GTCC-Greensboro NC New Schools Project Powerful Teaching and Learning Strategies Framework and Protocols

18. Framework for a Learner Friendly Environment Welcome novice and master teachers! Please fill out an index card: Name Language and levels School “Su atenciónpor favor” Find PINK notes page in Blue Folder

19. Scaffolding Scaffolding is integral to reaching and stretching all students. Write to support Speech production Anticipation Guides/Activities Baby Stepping Production (short and long) Lower to higher level questions/prompts

20. Writing-to-Learn Create structure and support student literacy. High-stakes vs. Low-stakes vs. Openers, tickets out the door, protocols Protocol: (Teacher experience) Carousel Look for other Writing-to-Learn strategies

21. CAROUSEL How do you teach grammar? What is the best way to teach vocabulary? How do you organize class handouts? (pass out, pass back, grade, class, day of week) What solutions would you suggest for students speaking out of turn (or off task)? What is your opinion on full immersion language classes?

22. Collaborative Group Work Shape student leadership and academic ownership while creating community in your classroom. Protocol: Jigsaw, Study Groups,Collaborative Group Work Roles (Teacher experience) Block Party/Fiesta

23. FIESTA/BLOCK PARTY Theme/Main Idea 2 details Question (to check understanding or to clarify)

24. Wagoner, Tony. The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Out Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need – and What We Can Do About It. Basic Books: 2008. p. 8,9 “Increasingly in America today—and in other countries, as well—there are two achievement gaps in our education systems. The first of these—well-documented, widely discussed, and the focus of education reform efforts for the past decade or so—is the gap between the quality of schooling available for most poor and minority children—and the consequent disparity in results. The second one is the global achievement gap, as I’ve come to call it—the gap between what even our best suburban, urban, and rural public schools are teaching and testing versus what all students will need to succeed as learners, workers, and citizens in today’s global knowledge economy. (continued…)

25. Wagoner, Tony. The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Out Best Schools Don’t Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need – and What We Can Do About It. Basic Books: 2008. p. 8,9 (…continued) “As a country, we’ve been striving to close the first achievement gap by brining our poorest schools up to the standards of our middle-class schools—mainly through increased testing and greater accountability for progress, as measured by tests. However, it has become increasingly clear to me that even in these “good” schools, students are simply not learning the skills that matter most for the twenty-first century. Our system of public education—our curricula, teaching methods, and the tests we require students to take—were created in a different century for the needs of another era. They are hopelessly outdated.”

26. FIESTA/BLOCK PARTY Theme/Main Idea 2 details Question (to check understanding or to clarify) (10 min.)

27. Literacy Groups Successfully engage students in a text, novel or video using higher order thinking skills. Reading and Writing Children’s Books, Pamphlets, novels, articles, etc. Protocol: (Teacher experience) Literacy Group Roles

28. Literacy Groups Protocol: (Teacher experience) Literacy Group Roles Plain Folder: Literature Circles Guide Student Peer Evaluation Literacy Group Roles (5 min.) Article from Tony Wagoner’s Global Achievement Gap (10 min + 5 min. + 10 min.)

29. Classroom Talk How can I use student’s desire for peer conversation to promote meaningful discussion in the target language. Protocol: (revisit) Block Party/Fiesta, (Teacher experience) Wagon Wheel, Chalk Talk

30. WAGON WHEEL What content or topic would your students benefit from exploring through literacy groups? 2. In what area do your students seem to need the most scaffolding? 3. How might you use classroom talk to engage students in your world language? 4. Does collaborative group work fit your philosophy of teaching? Explain. (15 min.)

31. CHALK TALK Which Strategy or Protocol will you use during the first week of school? How? (5 min.)

32. Conclusion Questions Parking Lot: sticky note (name, ?, email) Comments Parking Lot: Sticky note (nameand email optional)

33. Framework for a Learner Friendly EnvironmentPresented by Alexandra ShaverEarly/Middle College at GTCC-Greensboro NC New Schools Project Powerful Teaching and Learning Strategies Framework and Protocols