LA 3.4 Taking Action
Deciding How You will Apply Your Learning
Learning Outcome | Pedagogical Intent | Student Position |
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Candidates understand issues of assessment and accommodation. Assessment: 25 pts. TA: 20 Minutes |
Teachers can infuse academic actions into their instruction to assist ELs in learning and using academic tasks to increase student understanding. |
Students are investigating teaching and assessing practices. They now read a chart about academic language actions they can take to incorporate into their teaching. |
Instructions
- Discuss in your group some of the struggles you have in assessing the academic content you teach in your classroom.
- Using the handout entitled: Academic Language Action Chart, read through the handout with the partner you are pairing with on your project and identify strategies either of you might use to support your students.
- Explore how you could incorporate one or two of the strategies in your instruction.
- Write how you will incorporate each strategy into your instruction on individual sticky notes.
- Post your notes on the designated wall.
- Review the notes posted. Jot your initials on the strategies of fellow students that you could try in your teaching.
- As a whole class, discuss ideas you gained from considering how you can better assess academic content in your teaching
- You could try out one of these strategies with your students this week and reflect on it for HW 3.1.
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