Celebrate Our Rising Stars Summit IV “From Essential Elements to Effective Practice” Strategies to Accelerate Strategies to Accelerate Academic Learning for Academic Learning for English Learners English Learners Anna Uhl Chamot Anna Uhl Chamot The George Washington The George Washington University University
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Celebrate Our Rising Stars Summit IV“From Essential Elements to Effective Practice”
Strategies to Strategies to Accelerate Academic Accelerate Academic Learning for English Learning for English
LearnersLearnersAnna Uhl ChamotAnna Uhl Chamot
The George Washington The George Washington UniversityUniversity
Celebrate Our Rising Stars Summit IV“From Essential Elements to Effective Practice”
ObjectivesObjectives
• Identify academic needs of secondary English learners;
• Describe CALLA instructional model to accelerate academic learning;
• Identify learning strategies that assist academic content and literacy development.
Celebrate Our Rising Stars Summit IV“From Essential Elements to Effective Practice”
Secondary English Secondary English LearnersLearners
• Linguistically and culturally diverse.• Differing educational backgrounds.• Variety of approaches to learning.• Range of levels of family literacy.• Different short-term and long-term
goals.• Cognitively mature.
Celebrate Our Rising Stars Summit IV“From Essential Elements to Effective Practice”
Academic Needs of Academic Needs of English LearnersEnglish Learners
• Develop academic vocabulary.Develop academic vocabulary.• Read to acquire new information.Read to acquire new information.• Understand information Understand information
presented orally.presented orally.• Participate in classroom Participate in classroom
discussions.discussions.• Write to communicate their Write to communicate their
knowledge and ideas.knowledge and ideas.
Celebrate Our Rising Stars Summit IV“From Essential Elements to Effective Practice”
• RESEARCH-BASED LEARNING MODEL: RESEARCH-BASED LEARNING MODEL: Learning process is mentally active, Learning process is mentally active, strategic, based on prior knowledge.strategic, based on prior knowledge.
• CURRICULUM CONTENT: CURRICULUM CONTENT: ContentContent topics topics aligned with National and State Standards. aligned with National and State Standards.
• ACADEMIC LANGUAGE: ACADEMIC LANGUAGE: Integrated Integrated language development across the language development across the curriculum.curriculum.
Celebrate Our Rising Stars Summit IV“From Essential Elements to Effective Practice”
What is academic What is academic content?content?
• Aligned to national/state Aligned to national/state standards.standards.
• Cognitively appropriate.Cognitively appropriate.• Content information Content information andand
content processes.content processes.• Focus: English Language Arts, Focus: English Language Arts,
history, social studies, history, social studies, mathematics, science.mathematics, science.
Celebrate Our Rising Stars Summit IV“From Essential Elements to Effective Practice”
How does academic How does academic content develop content develop
literacy?literacy?• Practice in reading and writing Practice in reading and writing
across curriculum areas.across curriculum areas.• Interaction with authentic Interaction with authentic
texts.texts.• Development of discipline-Development of discipline-
specific vocabulary.specific vocabulary.• Increased motivation through Increased motivation through
interesting topics.interesting topics.
Celebrate Our Rising Stars Summit IV“From Essential Elements to Effective Practice”
What is academic What is academic language?language?
• Language used during teaching Language used during teaching and learning.and learning.
• Language in content textbooks.Language in content textbooks.• Language of literature.Language of literature.• Language used to communicate Language used to communicate
new concepts.new concepts.• Language of literacy.Language of literacy.
Celebrate Our Rising Stars Summit IV“From Essential Elements to Effective Practice”
Input: Academic Input: Academic Language and Content Language and Content
TextsTexts• Literature genres: stories, novels, Literature genres: stories, novels, poetry, biography.poetry, biography.