Reminders:

For the month of December Burnaby Public Library will be hosting their Group Chat program on two different days, Saturday and Tuesday, during the winter break!

Group Chat is a program for newcomer youth who want to meet other youth and practice speaking English. We will play games, connect, and discuss an interesting topic in a fun and friendly online group setting. Please email teenservices@bpl.bc.ca for Zoom links.

Saturday, December 19, 3 – 4:00pm
Tuesday, December 22, 3 – 4:00pm

Every Teacher is A Language Teacher

Higher Order Thinking Skills

Teachers can improve student engagement by providing learning opportunities that promote higher order thinking skills at all language levels.

When creating questions/tasks with Bloom’s taxonomy, create sentence stems that can indicate task and appropriate academic language.

Move beyond just recall, by having students show the concept/skill, develop a plan or argument, and extend their thinking (design, synthesize, apply etc)

Higher Order Thinking Strategies

1. Digital story telling: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYtxV-SNUxZA7W_EjT3NDoU4TQJ88lr5h
2. SQP2RS: https://carla.umn.edu/cobaltt/modules/strategies/SQP2RS.pdf
3. GIST: https://www.s2temsc.org/uploads/1/8/8/7/18873120/gist_summaries_strategy.pdf