Storyboard Paper to Practice: Using the TESOL Standards in the classroom Susan Penton

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Paper to Practice: Using the TESOL Standards
in the classroom
Susan Penton
EESL 650 – Summer 2014
May 31, 2014
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• “Language is woven into the • TESOL Standard #1
fabric of instruction.”
• English language
• Language is what we use to
learners (ELLs)
teach – speaking
communicate for
• Language is what we use to
social,
learn – reading &
intercultural, and
listening
instructional
• Language is what our
purposes within the
students use to
school setting.
demonstrate what they
know - writing
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• Social and
Intercultural
language...
• used in face-to-face
interactions in a school
setting.
• necessary to participate
in class
• asking for directions or
assistance
• learning to follow rules
and directions
• understanding how and
when to complete an
assignment
• often used during
recess, in the hallways,
and outside of school.
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• Instructional
(academic) language
• the language necessary
for success in school
• Receptive skills:
listening and reading
• Productive skills:
speaking and writing
• includes vocabulary and
grammar
• Everyday vocabulary
can take on a whole
new meaning in the
classroom.
• “table”
multiplication tables
water table
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• TESOL standards #2,#5
• communicate ideas,
information & concepts
in language arts &
social studies.
• hyperbole, simile,
proofread, summarize
• relief map, judicial
branch, political party
• TESOL standards #3,#4
• communicate ideas,
information & concepts
in science & math.
• cell, lab report,
hypothesis
• ratio, greater than,
divided by, goes into,
product
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• Language proficiency is
dependent on both in
and out – of - school
experiences.
• Simplify and support
(with visuals, peers, L1
when appropriate)
• Both social & academic
language is necessary for
academic success.
• Academic language
proficiency provides a
path to academic success.
• Content-based instruction
helps develop academic
language proficiency.
• L1 academic proficiency
facilitates the acquisition
of academic English
language proficiency.
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