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November 3, 2018 at 3:07 pm #888Ingrid HeidrickKeymaster
Out of all the classroom activities we’ve covered in Lecture 6 as well as in previous Lectures, which ones have interested you the most and why? Which activities do you plan on incorporating into your unit? Are there challenges or limitations that you anticipate in implementing these activities? Are there any changes or adaptations you want to make to activities that you already use?
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November 4, 2018 at 2:58 am #889Roxanna LedesmaParticipant
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Out of all the classroom activities we’ve covered in Lecture 6 as well as in previous Lectures, which ones have interested you the most and why? Which activities do you plan on incorporating into your unit? Are there challenges or limitations that you anticipate in implementing these activities? Are there any changes or adaptations you want to make to activities that you already use?
In the most traditional sense, the teacher teaches and the students learn. However, this can also be turned around and students can help each other understand concepts, through peer tutor in the classroom. However, when I think about the different activities I learned from the lectures and the ones I read about in the articles resources, they all seemed to be very rich and engaging for all kinds of learners. Some of the written activities are useful for English teaching in a variety of concepts. The most important aspect of using some of these activities in my class is that they will help me give support to my language learners who may find traditional activities difficult. The basic idea behind these language and vocabulary activities is that my students will learn using different types of strategies. For instance, spelling can be learned through typing which uses kinetic activities for the English Learning students. Also, some of these activities address words uses to promote language by using explanation and understanding through the use of words. Through most of these language activities I understand that it is a fact that teaching others is extremely important, since these teaching activity focuses on using language and will continue to play the primary role in learning English. Some of the activities that stood out for me to use in my classroom with my English Language Learners will help instill Oral language and vocabulary amongst my students. For instance, using a graphic organizer “see, think, wonder” after reading instruction to enhance comprehension and promote oral language development, activate conceptual knowledge and vocabulary by modeling critical thinking. This activity will also help students with phonological awareness of syllables and sounds through read aloud and explicit instruction. Besides, building vocabulary activity to identify schema and background knowledge were very useful for my vocabulary instruction unit as well as for daily instructions around any subject in my classroom. This activity promotes and enrich great deal of vocabulary; students look at pictures of the text vocabulary prior to reading actual text; they brainstorm and answer questions for comprehension and also use a web-map to learn synonyms and engage in many usages of such words using shades of meaning and concept maps. And last, but not least, I am fascinated with the activity of reading a text in a foreign language and the activity to expose students to vocabulary knowledge of the brain; I would however, adapt this activity using Spanish and English so they read the text in the language they don’t understand but they can still rely on the language cognates for concepts and words connection so it can feel more of a challenge than a discourage. -
November 8, 2018 at 4:46 pm #893Ingrid HeidrickKeymaster
I’m glad you found the activities useful Roxanna! I absolutely encourage using Spanish with these activities for your Spanish-English bilinguals – the more cross-linguistic connections they can make, the better!!
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November 12, 2018 at 3:42 pm #902Frannilba MariaParticipant
Out of all the classroom activities we’ve covered in Lecture 6 as well as in previous Lectures, which ones have interested you the most and why? Which activities do you plan on incorporating into your unit? Are there challenges or limitations that you anticipate in implementing these activities? Are there any changes or adaptations you want to make to activities that you already use?
Out of all the classroom activities we’ve covered in all the lectures including lecture 6 and the valuable information provided in all the articles, the one that was most interesting to me was the instructional template unit on vocabulary. all the lectures were extremely important and full of relevant information, however, due to the fact that my students are very low, most of the lectures were hard for me to adapt to fit the different needs of my students. In fact, although hard, I have to say that I had a great time implementing the differentiating the vocabulary unit for my students. The strategies that you offered for scaffolding and the different ways offered to build schema were very useful. I’m still using the vocabulary unit template with my students to teach them new vocabulary words related to our Animal Differences Unit while at the same time introducing them to new words and new information. I also, like the unit on guided reading and learned from it how to implemented in my classroom. For my students everything has to be adapted and differentiated and having to do the guided reading was a good experience because having to work with two students and guiding through the reading is a challenge. My students are for the most part not able to follow along during anything unless using hand-over-hand or full physical assistance from classroom paraprofessionals or myself. But I still did guiding reading with my students and although it is probably a little different than everyone else, I learned that it would be most beneficial for my class would I have the time to implement this all the time within my classroom. Most of all I would continue to implement the vocabulary unit on my classroom throughout different lessons. I think using a word wall and different manipulative/objects would help my student familiarize themselves with the different vocabulary words and use them to communicate using their different communication devices.
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