What do you Think?? REFLECT: Strategies 9-12 (14:39 - 20:30) have a common thread around respecting and honoring a student. Gonzalez cites, “They’re doing twice the job of everybody else in the class, even though the result looks like half as much.” What do you think?
Value the student and the students effort. There are 2 things we can control, our attitude and our effort. So if a student is trying, respect that and value you. They are working incredibly hard and you want to praise effort and mistakes happen.
"Showing them how to laugh at themselves without ridicule is encouraging them to take more risks" Risks are necessary when you are practicing a new language.
2.Now What?? From the 12 strategies Gonzalez offers, which do you already use consciously? What are the results? Are there any strategies that you connect with and plan to use? How will you know if you are successful? Please explain.
One of the biggest things for me was "Make it visual". Notability is a great tool for us. It isn't just tech for the use of tech, it is a tool to help relate material. When I write out the steps to a problem (another great strategy), I color code them and then color the work for the students in that same color.
Also, in class, we speak in sentence frames, and I also have them on a bulletin board near the front of class. "This is correct because _______" We defend everything in class, so that helps some words become a bit more familiar.
Pre-teaching is important too. I make a YouTube video of the lesson once a week when we are learning a big topic and I push it out the night before the lesson.
Value the student and the students effort. There are 2 things we can control, our attitude and our effort. So if a student is trying, respect that and value you. They are working incredibly hard and you want to praise effort and mistakes happen.
"Showing them how to laugh at themselves without ridicule is encouraging them to take more risks" Risks are necessary when you are practicing a new language.
2.Now What?? From the 12 strategies Gonzalez offers, which do you already use consciously? What are the results? Are there any strategies that you connect with and plan to use? How will you know if you are successful? Please explain.
One of the biggest things for me was "Make it visual". Notability is a great tool for us. It isn't just tech for the use of tech, it is a tool to help relate material. When I write out the steps to a problem (another great strategy), I color code them and then color the work for the students in that same color.
Also, in class, we speak in sentence frames, and I also have them on a bulletin board near the front of class. "This is correct because _______" We defend everything in class, so that helps some words become a bit more familiar.
Pre-teaching is important too. I make a YouTube video of the lesson once a week when we are learning a big topic and I push it out the night before the lesson.