ESL Sites2See (DET resource for ESL teachers) The links on these sites cn be easily linked to your wiki. How to apply ESL pedagogy to planning a lesson?
Some initial thoughts:
Use reading, listening and writing strategies online (before, during and after activities)
Ask students what they already know about a topic/text type etc through the forum or by linking to a mind mapping site.
Use the wiki history tab to assess your students as they collaborate online and contribute to group tasks
Backward mapping Use your learning outcomes to design an intergrated unit of work on a wiki page to ensure your students reach the goal.
High Challenge, High Support (Mariani '92) Use the wiki to support the unique learning needs of ESL students whilst at the same time challenge them with more stimulating and challenging 'real-world' web-based inquiry based problems.
Hammond Teaching/ Learning Cycle Use the Hammond Teaching/learning cycle to sequence a wiki lesson: Build field Though pictures and videos and other digital media etc
Model the text type: Link to great models on the net or upload your own models of the genre.
Deconstruct the language: Add questions that make your students think about the text features or identify the parts. (it's here you can start getting them used to the meta-language as well)
Joint construction. Well, the possibilities are endless here....Upload a Word Document with a cloze passage, link to a good web 2.0 site for collaboration (weebly, Buble etc) or give the groups there own new wiki page. Get kids to collaborate on tasks
Individual Construction. You can request basic skill presentation: "Open a Word Document and.., or even "Open your book and ..." or more complex presentation skills that take in to account Multiple Intelligences: "Choose how you would like to present your new knowledge: PowerPoint, Song, a narrative, a poem, a digital story, a play...
The links on these sites cn be easily linked to your wiki.
How to apply ESL pedagogy to planning a lesson?
Some initial thoughts:
Backward mapping
Use your learning outcomes to design an intergrated unit of work on a wiki page to ensure your students reach the goal.
High Challenge, High Support (Mariani '92)
Use the wiki to support the unique learning needs of ESL students whilst at the same time challenge them with more stimulating and challenging 'real-world' web-based inquiry based problems.
Hammond Teaching/ Learning Cycle
Use the Hammond Teaching/learning cycle to sequence a wiki lesson:
Build field
Though pictures and videos and other digital media etc
Model the text type:
Link to great models on the net or upload your own models of the genre.
Deconstruct the language:
Add questions that make your students think about the text features or identify the parts.
(it's here you can start getting them used to the meta-language as well)
Joint construction.
Well, the possibilities are endless here....Upload a Word Document with a cloze passage, link to a good web 2.0 site for collaboration (weebly, Buble etc) or give the groups there own new wiki page.
Get kids to collaborate on tasks
Individual Construction.
You can request basic skill presentation: "Open a Word Document and.., or even "Open your book and ..."
or more complex presentation skills that take in to account Multiple Intelligences: "Choose how you would like to present your new knowledge: PowerPoint, Song, a narrative, a poem, a digital story, a play...
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