TDP-Dual Language Essentials COMPLETELY ONLINE 2 SDW Credits

Welcome to the Dual Language Essentials Course. 

As you know, the School District of Waukesha is a regional leader in quality, research based bilingual education 4K-10th grade.

This course is intended to guide you through the essential preparation for leading and teaching in a Dual Language Program and will be available from today through December 23.   

Comprised of 11 sessions, each session will provide a reading resource and essential questions to guide your thinking and learning. Your opportunity will be to use the reading to prepare a discussion post to share and collaborate with other colleague in the course. A rubric to support the quality of your responses is below. 

Since each participant enters the course with diverse background knowledge, this course has become a vibrant opportunity to grow as learners, leaders and advocates for the Dual Language Program-a program whose goal is to eliminate the achievement gap by providing students with a Bilingual and Biliterate Education in Spanish and English so that they are competent linguistically, academically, culturally and globally.

To enter the course you will need to log into google classrooms, and use this course key to get in (lt7qcnz).  The required readings in the course are uploaded to the course with the exception of the text Dual Language A-Z, which you will need to purchase and get reimbursed for at the completion of your work.  Pending a grant, a small stipend may be available to support your learning.

DL Program “BIG ROCKS”

• Focus Methodology: Oracy/Oral Academic Language Production with supports
• The Current Data: Classroom Visitas
• Monitored Strategies:
• Language Allocation Plan
• Staff and Student Oral Produced Language with support/Speaking and Writing
• Sentence Frames
• Bilingual Pairs
• Think-Frame-Pair Share
• DOK 1-4

• Focus Methodology: Metalinguistic Awareness: Contrastive analysis of similarities and differences in Spanish and English Phonology, Morphology, Syntax and Pragmatics
• The Current Data: Classroom Visitas
• Monitored Strategies:
• Bridging
• Blue and Black ink
• Letras tramposas
• Side by Sides in Social Studies, Science, and now MATH
• Contrastive Analysis of cognates, phonology, morphology, syntax and pragmatics aligned to the DL Continuum and BUFS

• Focused Guaranteed and Viable Curriculum for Biliteracy
• The Current Data: https://docs.google.com/a/waukesha.k12.wi.us/presentation/d/1QNG1ejpd1edVmjP4jhm5hT2Pp-6R0YShHysgNbNrFjc/edit?usp=sharing
• K-1 Low in phonemic awareness, the building block of reading
• Second Grade low in Spanish Reading Comprehension
• 5th  graders not on level as expected through the research link
• Language Allocation K5-5 Implemented with Fidelity by teachers

• 4K-5K La Estrellita: replaces the continuum in 5K Spanish Phonemic Awareness and Phonics Scope and Sequence
• 5K-1st Grade ELD Units: English Language Development Units
• BUFS Grades 2-8* Science and Social Studies (Grades 2 and 4 are CLM/BUF Focus Grades at Blair and Heyer)

• Focused Assessment for DL Students (see assessment calendar)
• 4K PALS being rewritten by SDW to be delivered in Spanish
• No more CPAA K-2, in its place, STAR Early Literacy Indicators
• RR up to level 21/L in Spanish, then only STAR Spanish
• RR English starts benchmarking in 2nd Grade

• Ongoing Classroom Visitas
• Goal: Classroom visitas  (aka walkthroughs and visits) are intended to support developing leadership capacity to grow the DL Program, instructional Practices and curriculum implementation.
• The “visitas” are to collaboratively build the leadership capacity of the program at all levels.  All staff are welcome to participate in them-see your principal.
• 2016-2017 form here