SDAIE Instructional Skills

1. Recognize the Need for SDAIE Instruction

. Cultural diversity data

. Review conclusion: teachers need models and practical strategies

. Review related terms

. Peer Coaching is central to instructional skill development

2. Understand Second Language Acquisition Principles

. SDAIE instruction is most valuable for students who have academic skills in L1 and need to be helped in L2.

. The following skills and concepts overlap. Mix and Match.

3. Make Teaching Comprehensible

When Planning Instruction:

. Align the curriculum

. to texts

. to what other teachers teach

. to student needs in real world

. to tests used

. Use a coherent lesson plan format that is

. structured

. sequenced

. repeatable

. Plan activities meaningful to the students

When Instructing:

. Use clear, distinct speech

. use synonyms and examples

. include cognates

. Use realia and manipulatives

. Use videos and music

. Teach the academic and subject vocabulary

. develop word banks

. Use Active Participation

. Monitor student achievement often and adjust instruction

4. Use Interaction Strategies

. Types of interaction

. learners interacting with each other

. learners interacting with text

. learners interacting with teacher

. Interactivity promotes

. language acquisition

. student talking

. sharing ideas

. subject matter learning

. Interactivity can be used to process directions

. Interactivity uses student prior knowledge and creates meaning

. Questioning strategies can promote interactivity

. use "wait time" after questions

. do not precede question with student name

. use covert/overt response patterns

. use Referential Questions

. Interactivity emphasizes student talk; de-emphasizes teacher talk

. Interactivity allows access to higher-order thinking skills

. Interactivity can be simple

. Group provides safe place to express self verbally

. Interactivity ranges from simple to comprehensive CLG

. CLG's provide structure for students to

. practice supportive interpersonal behavior

. monitor each other's behavior,

. stay on task,

. achieve success,

. use the language appropriately and

. have interaction.

. Educational Technology is good for SDAIE because:

. Multisensory

. Multilingual

. Motivational

. Graphic User Interface is appropriate for LEP instruction

. Two paradigms for educational technology in LEP instruction:

1. CAI: including “drill and kill” types

2. Student Centered: using whole language

. Educators are in shift from 1 to 2.

5. Teach Study Skills

. Learners interacting with text

. Learning Log Format

. DRTA

. text rendering

. Teach study skills as part of curriculum

. Need structure for how to study

. helps kids with academic English;

. essential for those without it.

. Teach appropriate organization of information

. providing models of concepts

. dialectical note taking

. hierarchical note taking

. note taking from books

. structuring how students review notes

. webbing/mind mapping/ “bugs”

. rank ordering

. Teach skills of how to master new language:

. listening

. zero noise signal

. class rules: be kind & stay on task

. reading aloud from challenging sources

. speaking

. mumble school/choral responses

. TTYP

. practice in small, supportive groups

. reading

. motivational sources

. manageable assignments assuring success

. writing -- need models students can replicate for:

. sentences

. paragraphs

. assignments

. Teach how to comprehend information

. put ideas in learners' own words: i.e., become fluent

. "make it theirs" -- i.e., meaningful

6. Build Self-esteem

. Students maximize their levels of expectation via:

. activities that are subject to authentic assessment

. success at higher order cognition

. high expectation from teachers and peers

. Students believe they can succeed

. Students feel positive about learning

. Cultural awareness is enhanced

. Banks model

. Home Country/Travel Reports

. Music Analysis

. Video Excerpts & Production

. Ethnic Music and Culture

. Cartoons for Fun and Analysis

. Teach American cultural values

7. Plan SDAIE Strategy

1. Pick at least one specific SDAIE strategy and describe how you will use it in your class:

2. How will this plan help your students?

3. Name at least one other person who can help coach you in this skill (it helps to have two or more people coach each other):

4. Set a date by which you will have a lesson plan prepared to practice this skill:

5. Set a date for a pre-conference with your coach:

6. At the pre conference, discuss the following with your coach:

( ) explain the lesson plan and the skills your are practicing

( ) ask the coach to observe at an appointed time

( ) the coach takes notes on strengths observed in the skills demonstrated

7. Schedule a post-conference shortly after the lesson:

( ) review the coach's observations and notes

( ) set time for follow-up observation to polish skills if time

8. Plan a regular schedule for coaching and being coached.

Page Author: David Georgi
URL: http://www.csub.edu/~dgeorgi/index.html
Last Updated: April, 1998