An hour session examining practices to encourage the speaking, reading and writing of English with secondary English language learners.

1. Strategies to support
academic English proficiency
Bodwell
May 19, 2017
Faye Brownlie
Slideshare.net/fayebrownlie.bodwell.may2017

2. • Students need more of:
– Their talk, using the language
– Co-construcFng understandings
– Working with open-ended quesFons
– 1:1 conferences/conversaFons with the teacher at
least once in each class
– Their ownership of their learning
• Tell me what you know
• What do you need to know?

3. • Students need less of:
– Listening to whole class teacher talk
– Closed quesFons
– Filling in worksheets with one word answers,
matching, true and false, simple, on-the-line
comprehension quesFons
– Aiming for accuracy at the expense of thinking

4. Choose a lesson
• Think of all the users at the point of design.
• Who might not be able to do this?
• Think of the goal, not the acFvity/method.
• Accessibility not accommodaFon.

5. Grade 9 Science – Starleigh Grass &
Mindy Casselman
Electricity
• The Challenge:
• Many of the students are disengaged and
dislike ‘book learning’. They acquire more
knowledge, concept and skill when they are
acFve, collaboraFve and reading in chunks.
• Starleigh and Mindy in It’s All about Thinking (Math and Science), 2011.

6. Essential Question
• If we understand how materials hold and
transfer electric charge, can we store and
move electric charge using common
materials?

7. • Individually, brainstorm what you can recall
about the characterisFcs of an atom.
• Meet in groups of 3 to add to and revise your
list.
• Compare this list to the master list.
• …(word derivaFons, label an atom…)
• Exit slip: 2 characterisFcs you want to
remember about atoms.

8. The Atom
• All maWer is made of atoms.
• Atoms have electrons, neutrons, and protons. Electrons
move, protons and neutrons do not move.
• Atoms have negaFve and posiFve charges.
• Electrons have a negaFve charge; protons have a posiFve
charge.
• Protons and neutrons are located at the centre of the atom,
in the nucleus.
• Electrons orbit around the outside of the nucleus, in energy
“shells.”
• An object can be negaFvely or posiFvely charged,
depending on the raFo of protons and neutrons.

9. Test Prep – Socials 11
Canada in the 1930’s with Melanie Mattson
• People Search – 12 boxes
• Students made notes for each quesFon
• Coached and listened to see if there were any
challenging areas
• 2 quesFons were most challenging
• Melanie explained her ‘answer’ to each, using a
Fmeline and associaFons
• 2 addiFonal areas to study
– With a concept map
– With a chart

10. Canada in the 1930’s
People Search Find someone who:
…can describe 3
differences between life in
the city and life in rural
Canada during the Great
Depression
…can paint a vivid picture
with words of relief camps
…can tell the story of the
beginning of the labour
movement in Canada
…understands the
difference between
totalitarism, socialism,
communism, and fascism
in the 1930’s

11. Test Prep – Math 10
Measurement with Jennifer Paziuk
• People Search
• Inside/Outside Circle