INSIDE/OUTSIDE CIRCLE Instructions Materials • Teacher-generated quesons or topics • Resources such as sentence starters or graphic organizers Similar Strategies • Walking Around the Room to Music, Line Ups Ideas for Scaling Up or Down 1. For novice students, the teacher can supply sentence starters and sample responses. 2. For intermediate and advanced students, the teacher can use more open-ended, complex quesons; students can formulate their own quesons based on a theme provided by the teacher. Classroom Background Information Language, Grade, and Proficiency Level • Mandarin Chinese, 2nd grade • Novice Mid to Intermediate High School Background • PS20 is located in the Lower East Side and is a diverse community with 14 home languages spoken by school families. • The school has a strong commiment to dual lan- guage immersion programs in both Mandarin-English and Spanish-English. • The Mandarin program is a two-way immersion program from PreK-5th grade. The program follows a 50-50 model, where students spend half of the me learning in their nave language, and the other half in the target language. Teacher Background • Ms. June Xie has been teaching the 2nd grade Mandarin Chinese dual language class at PS 20 Anna Silver School for five years. She teaches to empower her students to become global cizens. Step-by-Step Directions 1. Half the students form a circle, and the other half make another circle around them. 2. Students in the inner circle turn to face a partner standing in the outer circle. It is helpful to have students shake hands with the partner facing them so that everyone knows who their partner is. 3. The teacher explains the communicaon task. 4. Students talk with each other and complete the communicaon task. Teacher asks students to raise their hands to indicate they are done with the task. 5. Aſter students complete the task, the teacher asks the students in the outside circle to move one student to the right or to the leſt. Students may repeat the same communicaon task with their new partner or perform a new task. 6. At the end, the teacher asks several students to present.