Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluating CALLA instruction

CALLA teachers need to include and or integrate key curriculum concepts, development of language functions and vocabulary, and explicit instruction in the learning strategies that facilitate both language and content development in their lesson planning. CALLA teachers should engage in interactive teaching that includes the five phases as well as ongoing assessment of students’ understanding and performance.

There are steps require in planning CALLA instructions

1.      Selecting the content topic for a unit or lesson

2.      Setting objectives for student achievement in content, academic language, and learning strategies and deciding how each objective will be assessed

3.      Assembling materials that will assist the teacher in making the unit or lesson meaningful to student.

4.      Teacher outlines the sequence of instruction that will enable students to understand, remember, recall, and apply the concepts and processes taught.

To carry out the four steps in planning CALLA instruction, teachers need to assess students’ prior knowledge. Sometimes teacher has to plans how to activate the students’ prior knowledge. To do this, teachers need to have some information about and understanding of the cultural and experiential background of their students.

In my experience of teaching, it is very important and resourceful to know our students’ background. The more we understand them, the easiest it gets on both sides as teacher and student. Once the students know that the teacher and other students appreciate them for who they are the more they have the sense of belonging. They have the sense that they fit in and their learning and motivation increase.

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them become what they are capable of becoming." -- Goethe