{"id":1859,"date":"2020-12-07T08:29:16","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2020-12-07T08:29:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T16:29:16","slug":"december-7-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/december-7-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"December 7, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Reminders:<\/h1>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">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!<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bpl.bc.ca\/groupchat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\">Group Chat<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p><b>Saturday, December 19, 3 \u2013 4:00pm<br \/>\n<\/b><b>Tuesday, December 22, 3 \u2013 4:00pm<\/b><\/p>\n<h1>Every Teacher is A Language Teacher<\/h1>\n<h2>Higher Order Thinking Skills<\/h2>\n<p>Teachers can improve student engagement by providing learning opportunities that promote higher order thinking skills at all language levels.<\/p>\n<p>When creating questions\/tasks with Bloom&#8217;s taxonomy, create sentence stems that can indicate task and appropriate academic language.<\/p>\n<p>Move beyond just recall, by having students show the concept\/skill, develop a plan or argument, and extend their thinking (design, synthesize, apply etc)<\/p>\n<h3>Higher Order Thinking Strategies<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Digital story telling: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLYtxV-SNUxZA7W_EjT3NDoU4TQJ88lr5h\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLYtxV-SNUxZA7W_EjT3NDoU4TQJ88lr5h<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SQP2RS: <a href=\"https:\/\/carla.umn.edu\/cobaltt\/modules\/strategies\/SQP2RS.pdf\">https:\/\/carla.umn.edu\/cobaltt\/modules\/strategies\/SQP2RS.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<li>GIST: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.s2temsc.org\/uploads\/1\/8\/8\/7\/18873120\/gist_summaries_strategy.pdf\">https:\/\/www.s2temsc.org\/uploads\/1\/8\/8\/7\/18873120\/gist_summaries_strategy.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&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\/1859"}],"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=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/ell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}