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- 1. Bilingual Support inEarly Childhood through Literacy Introducing a Curriculum Supporting the Needs of Our Community by Erica Liddell
- 2. Teachers would beinstructed before the presentation to pick up a handout covering highlights of the curriculum map.
- 4. Welcome! Team BuildingActivity! • You have colorful Post-It notes on your table, take 3 of these Post- It notes and write 3 positive words about the person next to you. Stick the notes to the teachers back. Take a minute to do this! • Now, you will form a circle to read the person’s positive words on their back. This is a time to build our learning team up and make sure we are engaged and ready to learn about the new exciting curriculum! Kindness changes everything! How do you feel now?
- 5. This would bea team building activity to get all the staff warmed up and engaged before the presentation. This would take about 5 minutes to complete.
- 6. -Supporting the Hispaniccommunity and providing equity and diverse book selection would provide fun opportunities for ELL students to read books in their native language. -This new improvement to the curriculum would also provide the English-speaking students with familiarity with the Spanish language, which is on the rise in the U.S. Being bilingual is a requirement later in life for certain jobs in our country (Education Development Center). How Would Bilingual Literacy Support be Effective for our Early Childhood Classrooms?
- 7. Curriculum Overview: • Bringingin Bilingual/Spanish books for classroom libraries and Spanish vocabulary cards • Bilingual Google Chrome Program for Assessments and Tracking student progress • Literacy extended at home through engaging Bilingual Learning Kits each month with books and engaging hands-on resources for families, such as vocabulary cards, puppets, book making actives, and crafts.
- 8. The administrators wouldshow teachers an example Bilingual Learning Kit and the materials that kit would provide to families for supported literacy instruction. This would take a couple of minutes.
- 9. In-class Activities • Pre-Kteachers engage with children while reading bilingual books and implementing bilingual vocabulary cards • One fun way is to dress as book characters a few times a month to really involve the reader and spark their interest • Supplement pre-k learning centers with fun hands-on bilingual materials and resources • Provide children with open ended opportunities to make their own books and puppets to relate to the Spanish words and experiences and make the learning material meaningful
- 10. I would instructteachers to look at their table and to look at the materials. Teachers and staff would have Spanish and bilingual books on the table in front of them to look at and interact with. A few puppets and example vocabulary cards would be provided to engage with, too. Teachers would have about 2-3 minutes to look over these materials.
- 11. Bilingual Instruction at-a-Glancefor the School Year: • Introducing New Spanish/English Books at School and Home • Add Targeted Vocab Words and Phonological Concepts • Small Group Instruction for Students Practicing High Frequency Vocabulary Words and Phonemes (Remedial Instruction) • Implemented Three Times a Week • Introduce Google Chrome Bilingual Literacy Program for Students to Listen to Stories on the Computer in Spanish and English • Provide Literacy Assessments Covering Objectives L23 and L24 On the Spot and Assessed in Google Chrome • Document Each Assessment for Each 9 Weeks (Fall/Winter/Spring/EOY Periods) • Analyze Data during PLC Meetings Each Month and Decide What Needs to be Implemented Next • Bring Data and Scores Back to Stakeholders and Community for Final Observation
- 12. Teachers would referto their handout that had more highlighted school curriculum bilingual instruction points. This would take a couple of minutes to complete.
- 13. Meaningful Assessments: • Thecurriculum map that was brainstormed allowed for checkpoint assessments throughout the year for fall, winter, spring, and the end of the year. • The map also gave remediation focus during small group instruction and one on one opportunities to teach the Spanish vocabulary and bilingual reading opportunities.
- 14. I would haveteachers look at their curriculum handout for reference on this topic of assessments. This would take a couple of minutes to go over.
- 15. Collaboration: • Collaboration happensin team meetings, PLC meetings, teaching teams, administrative teams, and the school organization, there is always a goal or learning outcome that the team is working toward. • Collaboration is essential for teachers and schools to communicate effectively and provide better teaching opportunities and engaging learning outcomes for students (Edutopia). • Collaboration also allows teachers to have support and give opportunities for guidance. Implementing the new bilingual literacy program would need support in place from bilingual teachers and bilingual parents.
- 16. I would referenceback to our team building activity at the beginning of the presentation and reinforce the importance of collaboration in the school setting and for this new curriculum. This would take about two minutes to complete.
- 17. Questions? • Take amoment to write any questions you have on the Post- it notes in front of you. There is a piece of chart paper on the back wall to put your Post-it note questions on. Please feel free to ask any questions on this chart! • A follow up post in Google Meets will be sent out in video format answering all questions.
- 19. Thank you allfor having a growth mindset and positive attitude during our learning experiences through this curriculum overview.
- 20. References Education Development Center.(2020) Supporting-Emergent-Bilingual-Children English.pdf (edc.org) Edutopia. (February 14, 2020) How to Improve Collaboration with Teachers. (edutopia.org)
Editor's Notes
- #2 Teachers would be instructed before the presentation to pick up a handout covering highlights of the curriculum map.
- #5 This would be a team building activity to get all the staff warmed up and engaged before the presentation. This would take about 5 minutes to complete.
- #8 The administrators would show teachers an example Bilingual Learning Kit and the materials that kit would provide to families for supported literacy instruction. This would take a couple of minutes.
- #10 I would instruct teachers to look at their table and to look at the materials. Teachers and staff would have Spanish and bilingual books on the table in front of them to look at and interact with. A few puppets and example vocabulary cards would be provided to engage with, too. Teachers would have about 2-3 minutes to look over these materials.
- #12 Teachers would refer to their handout that had more highlighted school curriculum bilingual instruction points. This would take a couple of minutes to complete.
- #14 I would have teachers look at their curriculum handout for reference on this topic of assessments. This would take a couple of minutes to go over.
- #16 I would reference back to our team building activity at the beginning of the presentation and reinforce the importance of collaboration in the school setting and for this new curriculum. This would take about two minutes to complete.
- #18 This would take teachers a couple of minutes to complete.