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Two way Immersion
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Characteristics
- Half of the students are native English speakers will the rest are native to the target language
- Fifty, or more, percent of the day is taught in the target language
- Ideally used from K-12 but by the end of 5th grade students should be proficient in both languages
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Program variety
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Time design
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50/50
- Beginning in kindergarten all students are taught half the day in English and half in the target language
- This ratio may go up for the target language in some schools but should not go up for English
- The ideal ratio does not change from 50/50 no matter the grade level
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90/10
- Kindergartners are only taught for 10 percent of the day in the target language with 90 percent of the day in English
- Each progression in grade level adds 10 percent of the day to the target language until the 4th grade reaching the 50/50 mark
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Teacher design
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Team teaching
- This divides the day up between two teachers one specialized in English for 50 percent of the day and another teacher specialized in the target language
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Bi-lingual teacher
- A Bi- lingual teacher fluent in both English and the target language teaches the entire day splitting up their time spent on one language equally
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Literacy development
- Simultaneous development
Learning to read and write in both languages at the same time
- Sequential development
A focus on on reading and writing of one language at a time
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Standards
- 1: Communication for social, intercultural, and instructional purposes
- 2: Communication of information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in language arts
- 3: Communication of information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in math
- 4: Communication of information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in science
- 5: Communication of information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in social studies
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Teaching Strategies
- Pairing students with different native languages together
- Use unit appropriate materials such as visuals, videos, and worksheets
- Have tough standards and don't allow translating especially during the languages allotted time
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Research and use suitable technology
- Multi sensory experience or visuals, audio, hands on and more
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Collaboration
- Collaborate with parents
- When team teaching collaborate with co-teacher
- Provide handouts and materials in both target languages
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Prepare lessons effectively
- Speaking and listening activities first
- Pre-writing activities and examples
- vocabulary emphasis
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TESOL
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Standards
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1: Communication for social, intercultural, and instructional purposes
- Teaching Strategies:
clearly explain instructions
use visuals and examples
use student grouping
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2: Communication of information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in language arts
- Teaching Strategies:
Use stations or grouping for different levels
assign reading and writing activities based on individual student levels
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3: Communication of information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in math
- Teaching Strategies:
Teach problem solving strategies
Create and assign activities based on the different levels of the students
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4: Communication of information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in science
- Teaching Strategies:
Use lesson appropriate technology providing explanations with visuals
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5: Communication of information, ideas, and concepts necessary for academic success in social studies
- Teaching Strategies:
Use appropriate technology to show historical events
Share cultural knowledge and utilize any class diversity
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Grade Levels
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Pre K- K
- Teachers create a nurturing learning enviorment for ELL
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1-3
- Teachers focus on teaching "learning to read"
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4-5
- Teachers focus on teaching "reading to learn"
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6-8
- Students begin to focus more on standards 1-4 with growing expectations of student performance
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9-12
- Students have traditional high school of their native language and academic demands make it more difficult to remain equal with their peers
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Levels
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Starting (L1)
- Limited or no understanding
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Emerging (L2)
- Basic understanding and use of everyday language
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Developing (L3)
- Mediocre understanding with limited vocabulary and frequent errors
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Expanding (L4)
- Adequate language use with improving reading comprehension
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Bridging (L5)
- Fluently expressive and able to communicate with native speakers having minimal errors or language support
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General Teaching strategies
- Determine lesson content and language
- Connect to background knowledge
- Provide comprehensible input
- make lessons address different sensory and intelligence needs
- Use cooperative learning strategies
- Modify vocabulary instruction
- Repetition and structure