ED668 Team!
ED668 Team!
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Reflection - September 3, 2014
September 3, 2014
First and foremost, welcome to ED668, Mr. Manibusan.
Today's session began with an activity to which Dr. Rivera invited the class to write "hello" in another language. The first word I wrote was Si Yu'os Ma'ase (Chamorro) followed by Kinisou (Chuuk). Realizing that the directions were to write the word "hello" in another language, I immediately wrote Hafa Adai/Buenas (Chamorro). Despite being encouraged to think of other words, it was a bit difficult to list any. After a few minutes, words were shared between group members and also few words were introduced by Dr. Rivera. To my amazement, after hearing the words she stated, it sounded familiar. What I learned from this activity is how we as educators could integrate one's cultural language to a lesson while not taking away the concept of our educational system.
Discussion of implementing various strategies to enhance the ELL academic were shared with the group. Such strategies include, but not limited to, meta cognitive strategies, which include ways to plan/organize, monitor/identify problems, evaluate and manage your own learning. Another strategy involved task-based strategies, which is the use of background knowledge, making inferences and predictions, and personalization.
With the various strategies available, one must adjust to the needs of the ELL student. What might work one school year, might not work for the next. Educator's must allow themselves to flexible to the needs of the ELL student.
QUOTE:
Discover wildlife: be a teacher! - Author Unknown
August...the first month of the school year. It is a time in which I began to wonder who will be placed in my classroom. Will it be a child who I saw facing the wall, sitting out during recess or simply waiting in the office to see the principal for some sort of behavior? Oh my, who shall I be of service to come August 18. As the day neared, I got my list and smiled. A bit curious to know who's who, I anxiously awaited to meet the little learners. School days continued and to one's amazement, the discovery of the wildlife lived in our little learners who bring such moments of color and joy. Each day is a new discovery which only a "teacher" will understand.
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I agree with you on your points of flexibility. I think the teacher should be able to take these strategies and personalize them, we should be able to administer these strategies in ways that we deem educationally appropriate for all students.
ReplyDeleteThe three levels of curriculum are, planned, enacted, and experienced. (Marsh and Willis 2007). Our GDOE may do a wonderful planned creating the standards; however, the teacher enacts what contents to teach based on experiences. Sometimes, some teachers are limited to what to teach because of lacking of experiences. For example, I enact what to teach based on my experiences. I choose to teach only environmental science to my elementary kids instead of physical science because of my lacking of experience in physical science. This is also the same as our ESL students. It is hard for our ESL students to learn something that they never have any background knowledge or experiences about it. Teachers may want to be flexible to the needs of the ELL students; however, experiences might be the issue for some. But we always hope for the best for our students. We may want to stretch ourselves to the max for the sake of the needs for our ELL students.
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