Effective Instruction for English Learners
Modeling: representing desired outcomes and providing multi-modal input
Build background/context: connect past experience and knowledge, newly learned concepts, and student life situation to make meaningful learning experiences,
Instructional frames: driven by language objectives, content objectives and what the learners can do now,
Rich and varied opportunities for practice: explicitly connected to prior and future learning,
Social learning: conscious development of a “community of practice”, lower affective filter,
Dynamic scaffolding: “just in time” and fades in intensity as learner becomes more independent,
Check for understanding: feedback, review, assessment.
Build background/context: connect past experience and knowledge, newly learned concepts, and student life situation to make meaningful learning experiences,
Instructional frames: driven by language objectives, content objectives and what the learners can do now,
Rich and varied opportunities for practice: explicitly connected to prior and future learning,
Social learning: conscious development of a “community of practice”, lower affective filter,
Dynamic scaffolding: “just in time” and fades in intensity as learner becomes more independent,
Check for understanding: feedback, review, assessment.