{"id":1837,"date":"2020-11-16T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2020-11-16T07:42:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T15:42:43","slug":"november-16-2020-monday-mash-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/november-16-2020-monday-mash-up\/","title":{"rendered":"November 16, 2020 Monday Mash-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Reminders:<\/h1>\n<p>Tuesday, November 17th, 1-3pm:\u00a0<strong>Elementary ELL meeting:<\/strong> We will welcome speakers from the Burnaby Public Library. A zoom link has been emailed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Saturday, November 28th 3-4pm: Burnaby Public Library Group Chat\u00a0\u00a0<b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bpl.bc.ca\/groupchat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Group Chat<\/a><\/b>\u00a0is 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.\u00a0Encourage your students to email teenservices@bpl.bc.ca for the zoom link.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h1 class=\"title style-scope ytd-video-primary-info-renderer\">Seidlitz Education Virtual SLIFE Conference<\/h1>\n<p>On November 12, Seidlitz Education held a virtual conference focusing on teaching students with limited or interrupted formal education (SLIFE). They have posted the whole 7 hour conference on youtube. There are many useful models but if you have time for only a short clip watch Pamela Broussard from the 14 minute mark to 17 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Seidlitz Education Virtual SLIFE Conference\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eM4h10HLMSk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h1>Every Teacher is a Language Teacher<\/h1>\n<h2>The Importance of Effective Instructions<\/h2>\n<p>I really bombed recently. I had six students in an online class do a writing assignment comparing a real life hero to a character in a book. I explained the assignment and asked them to show it to me next class. None of them did it correctly. They wrote about why they respected the real life hero or gave a biography but no one mentioned the novel&#8217;s character. The first one could be caused by an inattentive student&#8230;but all of them? The problem was my instructions were unclear. I orally told them what to do and assumed they got it. I apologized for my mistake and we went over the assignment again. This time, I wrote step by step instructions on a shared document. Then, we brainstormed characteristics with a group chosen hero. Then, I wrote\/co-wrote a model using the hero and one of the characters. Finally, I let them get to work. All of them were successful the second time.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers need to have clear, scaffolded instructions for students. Oral instructions are rarely enough.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/files\/2020\/11\/instructions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-1838 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/files\/2020\/11\/instructions.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"706\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/files\/2020\/11\/instructions.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/files\/2020\/11\/instructions-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 100vw, 706px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reminders: Tuesday, November 17th, 1-3pm:\u00a0Elementary ELL meeting: We will welcome speakers from the Burnaby Public Library. A zoom link has been emailed. &nbsp; Saturday, November 28th 3-4pm: Burnaby Public Library Group Chat\u00a0\u00a0Group Chat\u00a0is a program for newcomer youth who want to meet other youth and practice speaking English. We will play games, connect, and discuss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8607,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8607"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1846,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}