Advisory Meeting #2

EQ:What is the best way for a first grade teacher  to maximize an E.L. (English Learner) student's score on their district's test?

Answer #2:

There are many ways for a first grade teacher to maximize a E.L. student's score on their district test, one of the best ways to do this is through social learning through oral language.

1. When kids talk to their peers on the playground in the english language. They are continuously trying to better understand and speak english through the playground interactions.

2. How english learners stick with students who know their native language. These english learners can better communicate and these students with whom they stick around with can better help them in translating their native language into english.

3. When these english learners are talking to their peers, they are learning how to better transition into english , with simple phrases on "how do you feel?", "how was your day?" and they can later start to answer more questions that require more detail from the student.

Research:

1. PBS. "Social and Emotional Growth." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 22 Aug. 2013

2.Kindermusik’s ABC Music & Me. "Schools." Early Childhood Curriculum. Kindermusik’s ABC Music & Me, n.d. Web. 04 Sept. 2013.

3. Hay, Ian, and Ruth Fielding-Barnsley. "Social Learning, Language And Literacy." Australasian Journal Of Early Childhood 37.1 (2012): 24-29. Academic Search Premier. Web. 20 Sept. 2013.

4. Alicja Rieger,, and Ewa McGrail,. "ON POINT Understanding English Language Learners’ Needs and the Language Acquisition Process: Two Teacher Educators’ Perspectives." Understanding E.L.L. Great Urban Schools, 2006. Web. 9 Jan. 2014.

5. Hill, Laura E. "California's English Learner Students." (PPIC Publication). N.p., Sept. 2012. Web. 09 Jan. 2014

Conclusion:
There are many different ways in which a first grade teacher can maximize a E.L. student's score on their district's test but there  are several best ways that prove  the most effective to get your students as a first grade teacher to reach their full potential.

Independent Component 2 Approval

1. For the 30 hours for this component, I plan on getting another mentor possibly to mentor with so I have different inputs and perspectives on my possible answers to my EQ. For the 30 hours i will be shadowing my mentor and possibly doing an interview. I will be meeting also if I can with the English language teacher that assist these English learners in bettering their English. Other than this I will be doing regular TA work for my mentor which includes grading, filing, reading to the kids, and helping the kids in class.

2. I will post pictures off me filing or what I am grading and if I can post pictures of me helping the children during class.I f I post pictures with the children it will probably be of the back of the head and me beside them.

3. If I get another mentor I will be able to get a new set of fresh eyes that could help me in giving me more answers that I may have not thought of before.

February Post

So today I helped out by passing the activities for Valentine's day that the kids were going to do. I helped the teacher by telling the kids to calm down and checking over their work during class. I also helped by helping the teacher organize her classroom before school started and set up the tables for when the kids were going to come in. I also helped by making sure the the candies used in any activity for "Valentine Day" themed that the kids didn't eat it so I had to count for every kid that the same amount of candy I had passed out came back.

Independent Component 1

Literal:

(a) I, Xena Perez-Angeles, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

(b) My mentor helped me complete my 30 hours for my independent component. My mentor has 12 years of experience as an elementary school teacher.

(c) Independent Component Log

(d) So I basically completed my 30 hours for my independent component. Overall for those 30 hours I helped my mentor as her TA in her class and helped her with the 1^st graders as well as helped her with them in class.

Interpretive:

So during my 30 hours for my independent component, it helped me formulate my answer of having visuals. During my 30 hours, I helped my mentor during class, sometimes by reading a book with the plush toy to the children and I was able to notice that the English learners in that class were able to enjoy reading time because the books I would help read to these kids were mostly bilingual.  (pics)

Applied:

  My component helped me understand my foundation of my topic better by helping me formulate my first answer. It helped me by giving me the experience of what kinds of difficulties English learners in first grade face, and the articles during my research check also helped because they gave me a more detailed example of how teachers, elementary teachers “deal” with them.

Lesson 2 Reflection

1. Positive Statement

What I am most proud of in my Lesson 2 is of my hook activity as well as my activity. I say this because I was able to tie in both in the use my answer. I was able to tie in my hook activity by incorporating listening, like the game. For my activity I was able to help my peers better understand that difficulties that English learners in 1^st grade can have and how as a 1^st grade teacher you can better understand those difficulties to be able to teach better for student comprehension.

2. Questions to Consider
       a.     What assessment would you give yourself on your Lesson 2 Presentation (self-assessment)?
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       b.     Explain why you deserve that grade using evidence from the Lesson 2 component contract.

3. What worked for you in your Lesson 2?
            What worked for me in my Lesson 2 I would say my activities because I felt that it helped my peers better comprehend the English learner difficulties these 1^st grade students face in 1^st grade and how it would hard to improve there test scores if they had first didn’t understand these difficulties.

4.  (What didn't work) If you had a time machine, what would you have done differently to improve your Lesson 2?

          I would have talked a lot slower and I would have tried to better phrase my answer because I explained it but the point of the answer is to do all the explaining without the need of the person to do it.
5. Finding Value
    What do you think your answer #2 is going to be? 

            Oral language- how students learn more of a specific language if they converse with other students by being interactive with them and being able to pick up the language they are learning( like in my case would be English)