Back to School
In Dual Language!
Just some notes to the start off the year. Please share with your DL Staff during the teacher work week.
Room Set-Up
- Be sure the room is set up for Meta-linguistic Awareness and that Space is allocated for Biliteracy Word Walls (letras tramposas Spanish and English, Regional terms) - new teachers may not know that we do not do A-Z word Walls. Posters will be available to them after October 11 PD.
- Blue and Black Marker Packs are going to arrive this week for each teacher
- Separate English and Spanish Libraries
- Post Class Schedules outside of door to facilitate Visitas
- Post English/Spanish Door Signs-Leti is making more!
- Post the UPDATED Dual Language Pillars outside of classroom in English and Spanish link
CLM Spanish Books
- CLM Spanish Books for Unit 1 will be delivered to your classroom before Friday, we are waiting on PLastic Bins to arrive Friday to deliver the rest
- 12 CLM Spanish books essential to the curriculum are out of print and translated texts-because they are so RARE, your EC will house them until they can be checked into the library (What a great opportunity to demonstrate to students the incredible lengths we will go to, and the craft of translation as a career)
- SDW Reading Benchmark Correlation Chart Link
BUF/ELD Curriculum Resources
- BUF Resources Lists: Resources arriving one per grade level with plastic bins for storage. Some resources are checked into library, each school will decide how to handle and monitor resources.
- Preparing your first BUF, a guide to the essentials Link
- Biliteracy Continuum Handbook 2017 Link, it is highly suggested that this document be printed and stored in each teacher’s classroom. It contains the essential reasons why Spanish is the way that it is, and supports word study. This handbook is located in the CLM resources on Blackboard.
- Monthly PROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION ON BUFS link
- Monthly collaboration during the school day will occur to support your BUF instruction, principals are designating the staff who will attend. There will be ONE staff per grade per school per month.
- Teaching for Biliteracy 3-Oracy and Teaching for Biliteracy 4-Metalinguistic Awareness (Lindholm 109)
- October 4th 4:30-7:30
- October 11th 4:30-7:30
- BUFs are the DL Science Required Curriculum grades 2-5
- ELD Units are paired to K-1 Science learning in this pacing guide Link
- DICTADOS “Dictados are a required practice CLM K-1 and written into the 2-5 BUF units. The practice will be observed,monitored and grown throughout the year based on data collected in those units. Dictados are part of best practice in word work for Emergent Bilingual Students and is recommended that each teacher plan for word study in CLM K-1 and CLM 2-5; however, district wide dictados have not been provided for you due to the variance of texts teachers use for units. The responsibility for delivering the Biliteracy Continuum Word Study Skills is the teachers and should maximize alignment between the texts and themes used in each classroom, and practices that build greatest potential for biliteracy and transfer.”
CLASSROOM VISITAS
- The Dual Language Leadership PLC includes administrators, coaches and teachers who support our capacity to build best practice for the DL learning context. First PLC TBD.
- The Oracy continuum will be used to deeply study practice and support our learning 2017-2018
- Oracy Continuum Classroom Visits Link
MENTORS
ALL teachers in licensure cycle year 1-5 will be invited to participate in peer mentoring with one of our Dual Language Mentors by
- Mentoring Handbook Link
- Mentor Meeting September 11th for Josh, Liz, Marlene and Karis
- Mentors will contact all new teachers by September 30th
