Re-Imagining ELA/ELD Instruction @ LACES

Blogger: Lawrence

Visual Synectics Activity: Complete the Sentence
First activity was a partner activity.


Take two different things and compare them laterally, using the prompt:

Instructional design is like.....because

...orchestrating a balancing act....you have to use multiple strategies to motivate kids.
...controlling the temperature...the kids come with different levels of energy and the teacher has to balance it out during class.

Developing an instructional design is like...because...

....having a vision....for it to work out a clear plan must be made on how you initially visualized it.


ELA/ELD Framework Resources
The Vision
by Jamie Krielaart

The framework was rediscussed using the executive summary. It gives a great bird's eye view of what the framework defines.

ELD Framework: The Executive Summary
The executive summary points one to the important parts of the voluminous document.

The Circle of Implementation

page 4: Circle of Implementation

Tech 10 Video

Scaffolding is necessary in giving our students access, including Els and Special Ed students. The framework gives us a blueprint that grounds the purpose and action of the work we do. The core of what we do rests on the CCSS. They provide the overarching goals of ELA/ELD instruction.
CORE: CCSS Different themes provide suggestions on how to deliver the instruction, offering depth and relationship to different areas.
Inner ring: How?
Outer Ring: Why?

page 2: Distinctive Features of the ELA/ELD Framework
Annotation Key: C: Continue, D: Deepen, I: Initiate

Depending on the individual's level of implementation, we rated the features accordingly. The activity aimed to get a thermometer reading of where everyone is in terms of implementing the standards.

Continue
Providing guidance of for implementation of two sets of standards: CCSS and ELD Standards
Deepen
Promotes an integrated an interdisciplinary approach to literacy and language instruction
Initiate
discusses literacy and language instruction in terms of five crosscutting themes


Reflection: This segment of the training reminded me that such document is available for our perusal and has to be used and revisited more often than I am currently doing. I particularly liked the circle of implementation with its corresponding video that is available on the LAUSD website that described how the CCSS and ELD standards can come together in terms on its implementation.