CoTESOL Plenary Cultural Perspectives SLIFE Part 3

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Gloria teaches an integrated algebra class for English language learners between the ages of 14 to 18 who are at a low proficiency level. The students are from the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Albania. Gloria's classroom contains various math-focused displays to support student learning, such as a word wall, calendar, sentence frames, teacher-made concept posters, and student-produced posters focused on math concepts.

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Andrea
DeCapua
Helaine
W.
Marshall

The
College
of
New
Rochelle
Long
Island
University

PART
IIII

Gloria’s
Math
Class

•  Ages: 14 - 18
•  Education:
–  5th grade – 9th grade
•  Class:
–  Integrated Algebra
–  Low-proficiency ELLs and SLIFE
•  Origin:
–  Dominican Republic, Ecuador,
Mexico, Puerto Rico and Albania

What
does
a
MALP
Classroom
Look
Like?

•  Word
wall

•  Calendar

•  Sentence
frames

•  Teacher-‐made
concept

posters

•  Student–produced

posters

5-hour interactive institute on addressing the needs of students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE). Includes an exploration of participants’ assumptions about teaching and learning, and contrasting these with the expectations and assumptions of SLIFE. Examines how to build bridges for crossing the border to academic success by implementing a culturally responsive instructional model, the Mutually Adaptive Learning Paradigm (MALP), a tool designed to help teachers enable SLIFE to access the literacy practices and the academic ways of thinking and learning of formal education while honoring and respecting their learning paradigm.

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Given the challenges SLIFE encounter when they enter U.S. schools, a deficit view frequently pervades educators’ attitudes toward SLIFE because their assets are almost always invisible when viewed through the lens of formal education. This lens identifies and labels SLIFE based on what they don’t have: no or low language proficiency, no or low literacy skills, significant gaps in subject-area knowledge, and not knowing how to “do school”. However, it is not the students who are the “problem,” but rather the structure and constructs of formal education. After examining who SLIFE are, I briefly outline a culturally responsive instructional model that provides a ramp for SLIFE to formal education. This model promotes academic achievement by helping these students access the literacy practices and academic ways of thinking of Western-style formal education while honoring and respecting their language(s), existing skills, knowledge, and lived experiences to avoid the alienation, disenchantment, and failure SLIFE too often experience. By focusing on assets and by building bridges, SLIFE are granted a voice otherwise silenced in institutionalized educational practices that all too often paint them as intellectually inferior.

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English learners are a diverse group who enter our schools with a wide range of backgrounds and needs. Many of them readily develop the necessary language skills, are able to access grade-level subject area content knowledge, and progress satisfactorily in school. However, there are other English learners for whom school presents major challenges, who do not progress smoothly, and who are at high risk. This is especially true for students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE). Like all English learners, SLIFE need to develop language proficiency; in addition, unlike other English learners, SLIFE must also develop literacy skills and master new school-based ways of thinking and learning. Because of their prior learning experiences, SLIFE do not share our assumptions about teaching and learning, and when they come to our classrooms they are confounded by the ways in which language and content are presented, practiced, and assessed. The key to helping this population is culturally responsive teaching, which asks educators to develop a new level of awareness of both their own and the students’ culturally derived learning priorities. I examine these different priorities and present a culturally responsive instructional model, the Mutually Adaptive Learning Paradigm (MALP®). This instructional model promotes academic achievement by helping SLIFE access the literacy practices and school-based ways of thinking of our schools while honoring and respecting their own learning paradigm as they transition to our classroom expectations and demands.

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