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Math Instructional Strategies

The three strategies to teach math that I need are:
1. Direct Instruction
2. Guided Practice
3. Group Work

UbD Stage 1: Oracy

Strategy to Effectively Teach English Language Learners: Oracy

Summary of Curricular Context: This is a professional development for teachers that teach in an area where there is a high English Language Learner (ELL) population. Teachers are rarely prepared well in their teacher prep programs or by professional development in their district to effectively teach students who are Language Learners. This professional development focuses on a strategy that would help them enhance the ELL’s language ability. If the child’s English stays limited, they will have a hard time understanding the content; therefore it is the job if the teacher to teach the content while enhancing the language abilities.

Standard / Objectives for Unit or Lesson:

The objective is for the teachers to define oracy and to explain 3 ways they will use oracy in their classroom to help the ELL students with their language abilities.

Lesson Goal:

The goal of the lesson is to show the teachers strategies using oracy that will help them effectively teach and enhance the language abilities of their English Language Learners.

Stage 1

Enduring Understandings What are the overarching enduring understandings for the unit/lesson? (big ideas that transcend the unit)

1. How to create higher order questions using Blooms Taxonomy


2. How oracy helps students language abilities and their interaction with the content


3. How and why to apply Kagan’s strategies in the classroom

Essential Questions What are the essential questions you can ask to guide inquiry?

1. How does oracy help English Language Learners in the classroom?


2. How can we effectively teach English Language Learners?

Knowledge & Skills

Knowledge	Skills
Kagan’s strategies Bloom’s Taxonomy Definition of oracy Definition of ELL Qualities of students in their classroom	Teachers (went through an undergrad program) Ability to implement teaching strategies Ability to be a learner (student) Work cooperatively

Xtranormal Math Rap

Our ADDIE did not go through, so we had to make up one by ourselves. I thought it would be interesting to see if I could use it in a way for my classroom, so this was an attempt at putting a rap into a cartoon. It didn't come out quite as planned.