Promising Practices Part II:
Instructing Dual Language Learners
Philadelphia, PA| October 14 2016, 10:30 am – 11:45 am
*This presentation included resources that are currently in the pilot phase and changes may be made
in response to feedback.
Tricia Blanco
[email protected]
NOTES~REFLECTION
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Promising Practices: Essential Actions to
Support Language Development in Early Care
and Education Settings
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WIDA FOUNDATION
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WIDA EARLY YEARS MISSION
This session will focus on promising practices participants can
implement in order to best instruct young DLLs within a
culturally and linguistically responsive setting. Participants will
be involved in an inquiry based approach for reflection around
their current practices and needs. Additionally, participants will
identify several actions they can put into practice immediately
in their early care and education setting.
OUTCOMES
• Reflect on current practices and needs around
instructing dual language learners within culturally
and linguistically responsive settings.
• Recognize ways to collaborate in order to instruct
dual language learners within culturally and
linguistically responsive settings.
• Identify a few immediate actions that you can put
into practice in order to instruct dual language
learners within culturally and linguistically responsive
environments.
REFLECT
• What do you do well when working
with DLLs?
• What are some of your challenges?
Promising Practices: Essential Actions to
Support Language Development in Early Care
and Education Settings
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Language Learning
Language Learning is NOT
Language Learning IS
An individual process
A social process of learning how to do
things others care about
Learning language structures and
functions
Learning how to get things done with
language
A linear and progressive process aimed
at accuracy, fluency, and complexity
A process that occurs in non-linear and
complex ways
Learning specific grammatical
structures and features
Understanding how language is
purposeful and patterned
A process that requires pre- teaching
content
A process that consists of activities that
scaffold children’s development and
autonomy as learners
(Based on Heritage, Walqui, and Linquanti, 2015)
WIDA Early Years Key Uses
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INSTRUCTION IS…
LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION IS…
• Instruction is…
o Reflect, write, share
• Language Instruction is…
o Reflect, write, share
• VENN Diagram
o What intersects?
o What doesn’t?
REFLECTION AND PLANNING TOOL
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REFLECTION AND PLANNING TOOL
• Volunteer reads 1 part out load
• All participants says something
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What do you notice?
What is new?
What do you wonder?
What can you use?
What do you suggest?
REFLECTION QUESTIONS
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REFLECTION QUESTIONS
• Read the questions
• Discuss with a partner(s)
• Using a post-it, rewrite questions or
add a question
• Post on graffiti wall
REFLECTION
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Website: www.wida.us/EarlyYears
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EVALUATION