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Setting Language Objectives: Tools and Tips

Jordan Meranus: Ellevation CEOAllison Balter: ESL Teacher

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Setting Language Objectives: Tools and Tips

Jordan Meranus: Ellevation CEOAllison Balter: ESL Teacher

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ELLEVATION WEBINAR: SETTING LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES

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objectives3. 1 thing that you are excited about learning today

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AGENDA

I. Instruction for ELs is ChangingII. The Importance of Language ObjectivesIII. Leveraging WIDA ResourcesIV. Creating Language Objectives: Step-by-StepV. Q and AVI. Ellevation Platform Description

But first, a bit of background…

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SUPPORTING EDUCATORS

200,000ESL teachers

1,800,000

teachers have at least one English Language

Learner in their classrooms

There has been an explosion of TECHNOLOGY TOOLS in education, but none are focused on ESL educators.

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FOCUS

Ellevation is a software company exclusively dedicated to serving English Language Learners and the educators that work with them.

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THE ELLEVATION PLATFORM

• Individualized Learning Plans aligned to standards• Early warning system for students needing attention• Student/school/district analysis of ELP assessments

Instruction

Collaboration• Collaborative goal setting and progress monitoring• Communication tools to facilitate collaboration between

ESL and classroom teachers

Productivity• EL Data Collection and Demographics• Required letters to families in 20+ languages• Easily “Monitor” exited students• Automatically bring in data when new ELs enter district

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NATIONAL REACH

20 states/130 Districts

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TODAY’S OBJECTIVE

Help all participants gain practical tips on the development of learning objectives and confidence in writing them for individual English Language Learners or groups of ELs at a similar level.

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THE ELLEVATION WEBINAR SERIES

March 2013 Fall 2013

The first in a series of practical webinars for ESL professionals

Goal Setting

Winter 2013

TBD based on

participant feedback

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AGENDA


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I. INSTRUCTION FOR EL’S IS CHANGING IN IL

1. Increase the rigor of language instruction by emphasizing academic language across content areas

2. Language instruction

must happen through high-quality, well-scaffolded content instruction – not only through ESL pull-out classes

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II. THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES

Language objectives specifically identify:

1) The way students will use language to engage with the content of the lesson and accomplish the content objective.

2) The specific components of academic language (vocabulary, language structures, etc.) that students will need to learn to accomplish the objective.

Before we start, what is a language objective?

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II. THE IMPORTANCE OF LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES

1.Planning• How is language instruction integrated with

content• What academic language must students learn

2.Student Support• What scaffolds must a teacher have ready.

3.Differentiation• A “strand” of language objectives helps teachers

set appropriate objectives at different levels and better differentiate instruction

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AGENDA

I. Instruction for ELLs is ChangingII. The Importance of Language ObjectivesIII. Leveraging WIDA ResourcesIV. Creating Language Objectives: Step-by-StepV. Q and AVI. Ellevation Platform Description

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III. LEVERAGING WIDA RESOURCES

Performance Definitions

CAN DO Descriptors

ELP Standards

Model Performance

Indicators

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1. Ellevation• Performance Definitions• CAN DO Descriptors• ELP Standards• Model Performance Indicators

2. WIDA: Search Function on WIDA Standards• http://www.wida.us/standards/ELP_StandardLookup.aspx

2 Powerful Tools: Ellevation and WIDA’s Website

http://www.wida.us/standards/ELP_StandardLookup.aspx

http://www.wida.us/standards/ELP_StandardLookup.aspx

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WIDA does… WIDA does not…• List a specific set of

standards or objectives we MUST teach

• Provide a bank of every language objective we would ever need

• Provide tools that we can use to build language objectives for our classrooms

• Provide a bank of sample MPIs that we can transform to create language objectives that fit our contexts

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IV. CREATING LANGUAGE OBJECITVES

• Language Objectives are not identical to MPIs and should not be used interchangeably.

• A language objective is much like an MPI but is then 'transformed' by including both supports and the levels it should be used for.

• You may need to tweak what we are presenting to reflect processes in place in your district; we know districts have different ways of doing this.

Let’s begin by addressing what may be some confusion

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IV. CREATING LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES

Transforming an MPI into a Language Objective

WIDA Customize

Result

Identify MPI

Add Support

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LevelLanguage Objective

2 3

4

StartSelect Content objective

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IV. CREATING LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES: STEP-BY-STEP

1. Set the Stage

• Know your students and levels

• Identify content standard at unit level

• Language Domain: Listening, Speaking, Reading Writing

• Identify applicable MPI

2. Craft Language Objective

• Language Function to describe what students should do (CAN Do’s are a great source)

• What supports do students need

• Content/topic linked to CCSS

• Customize to match levels

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IV. KNOW YOUR STUDENTS AND LEVELS

Content Standard:

Language Domain:

Level 6

Reaching

Level 1Entering

Level 2Emerging

Level 3Developing

Level 4Expanding

Level 5Bridging

Use the chart below to place students in each level.

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IV. KNOW YOUR STUDENTS AND LEVELS

There are 3 parts to a language objective.

Purpose of the Language

1. Language Function

Sensory, Graphic, Interactive

2. SupportLink to content

3. Content/Topic

Language Objective

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IV. CREATING AN INDIVIDUAL LANGUAGE OBJECTIVE

Name familiar objects in photographs or illustrations associated with weather conditions (e.g. “cloud”).

Language FunctionType of Support

Topic or Content

GRADE: K-2 LEVEL: 1 DOMAIN: SPEAKING LANGUAGE OF SCIENCE

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Describe…

Compare…

Explain…

… using a graphic organizer

… in models and figures

… with a partner

… with the water cycle.

… with the scientific method.

… with photosynthesis.

TOPIC or CONTENT

Name familiar objects…

LANGUAGE FUNCTION

… in photographs and illustrations

TYPE OF SUPPORT

… with weather conditions.

We can transform sample MPIs by changing components.

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WIDA provides some sample supports we can use:

(from “2012 Amplification of English Language Development Standards, K-12,” WIDA)

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IV. DIFFERENTIATING LANGUAGE OBJECTIVES

Students at different levels will require different supports.

IL Science Curriculum Frameworks• 12.E.1b: Student will identify and describe patterns

of weather and seasonal change.

WIDA Standard 4: Language of Science

Content Objective • SWBAT track daily weather on a class weather chart,

including temperature, wind direction, and precipitation.

Let’s look at an early elementary science standard:

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Let’s differentiate language objectives for two groups of ELs

Levels 1-3 Levels 4-5

Name familiar objects in photographs or illustrations associated with weather conditions (e.g. “cloud”).

We can use a Level 1 MPI as a resource…

Describe daily weather conditions from photographs and class charts (i.e. Today the weather is rainy.)

Compare daily weather conditions across different days using class charts (i.e. I know Thursday was hotter than Monday because_____ ).

Domain: SPEAKING

and transform it to fit our class:

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Common Core State Standard• RP.3 Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and

mathematical problems.

WIDA Standard 3: Language of Mathematics

Content Objective • SWBAT solve word problems involving unit rates.• SWBAT justify their decisions based on unit rates in real-life

scenarios (e.g. choosing which car to buy based on gas mileage in miles / gallon).

Let’s look at a 6th grade math standard:

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Levels 1-3Compare choices based on real-life rate calculations using a graphic organizer and sentence frames (e.g. _____ is greater than _____).

Levels 4-5Critique choices based on others’ mathematical reasoning from sample solutions to real-life rate problems.

Domain: WRITING

List choices based on rate calculations in real-life situations using templates and a word bank with a partner.



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Common Core State Standard• CCSS RL6.4 Determine the meaning of words and

phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.

Content Objective • SWBAT infer the author’s intended effect of

figurative language in a poem.

Let’s look at a 6th ELA standard:

WIDA Standard 2: The Language of ELA

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Levels 1-3Give opinions with reasons about the effect of figurative language in a poem using sentence starters and a word bank (e.g. when the author says __ it makes the reader feel __ ).

Levels 4-5Create multiple paragraphs analyzing the effect of figurative language in a poem.

Domain: WRITING

Identify words or phrases representing figurative language in visually supported related sentences (e.g., like or as) (Grade 6-8, Reading MPI).



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SOLUTION

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3Set Goals: Create Action Plans

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