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The School District of Philadelphia Office of Multilingual Curriculum and Programs Leslie Kirshner-Morris Lovinda Weaver
Innovative Approaches to Intervention: A Standards
Based Approach
Overarching Thoughts…
Language development must be the shared responsibility of all teachers, not only those in bilingual and ESOL classes.
Cummins, 1994; Krashen, 1991, Thomas and Collier, 1997
Three-Step Interview • A interviews B • B interviews C • C interviews A • Answer the following questions: 1. What’s your name and where are you from? 2.What do you know about a Multi-Tiered System of Support? (MTSS) 3. What would you like to know about MTSS?
Benefits of Three-Step Interview • Lower affective filter • Increased interaction • Scaffold for sharing with the whole group • Opportunity for academic language
• Provide sentence frames and/or modeled language, as needed
• Balance language load with new activity: • Make it social the first time • Use with content and language in subsequent sessions
Why A Multi-Tiered system for ELLs?
“ …has the potential to affect change for ELLs by requiring the use of research-based practices based on individual children’s specific
needs.” (Brown & Doolittle, 2008)
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Multi-Tiered System Approach
Tier 1 All ELLs at this level
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Tier 2 Some ELLs at this level
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RTII Model for ELLs
Core Instruction
Strategic
Intensive
Expectations for Tier I Strong core program that will: Facilitate their social and academic language acquisition in ESOL and general education curriculum classes. Includes accommodations and modifications based on their level using the WIDA Can Do Descriptors for each grade and language proficiency level
Academic Language Activity
Directions:
• Please form yourself in groups of 6 • In your groups count off by 6. • Put number on your cards and give them to your
recorder • Look at the image • Ones describe the image • Twos describe the image through the lens of a poet • Threes describe the images through the lens of an
architect • Fours describe the image through the lens of an
ecologist • Fives describe the image through the lens of an historian
Features of Academic Language
Five Essential Components of Literacy • With your group, read about and then discuss your
assigned component:
• Phonemic Awareness • Phonics • Fluency • Vocabulary • Comprehension
The Iceberg Model of Culture
ELL Factors
The learning environment created for
ELLs
Personal and family
factors
Physical and psychological
factors
Previous schooling
factors
Oral language and literacy
development factors
Academic achievement
factors
Cross-cultural factors
How are our students impacted by new cultural norms or expectations?
RtII and English Language Learners in the School District of Philadelphia/ School Level Planning
• In your groups, discuss what evidence is present, and what next steps are needed.
• Do you need to gather more evidence at your school?
RtII and English Language Learners in the School District of Philadelphia/
Tier 1 Instruction for ELLs
• In your groups, discuss what evidence is present, and what next steps are needed.
• Do you need to gather more evidence at your school?
Reflection and discussion • Questions? • New insight?
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