rbe rn slife workshop liu-hudson 5-9-13
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PPT from Workshop on Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE). HW Marshall/A DeCapua; sponsored by Regional Bilingual Education Resource Network for Hudson Valley, NY. Hosted by LIU-Hudson.TRANSCRIPT
Promoting Academic
Achievement for Students with
Limited or Interrupted Formal
Education
Helaine W. Marshall, Ph. D.
Long Island University
Andrea DeCapua, Ed. D.
Educational Consultant
Students with
Limited/Interrupted Formal
Education
• How do we refer to them?
– LFS (Freeman & Freeman, 2002)
– SIFE (NY State Department of Education)
– SLIFE (DeCapua, Smathers, & Tang, 2008)
Collectivistic vs. Individualistic
Cultures
Teachers and learners assume that:
1. the goals of K-12 instruction are
a) to produce an independent learner
b) to prepare that learner for life after schooling
2. the learner brings along
a) an urge to compete and excel as an individual
b) age-appropriate preparation for
i. literacy development
ii. academic tasks (Marshall, 1998; DeCapua & Marshall, 2011)
Pragmatic vs. Academic Tasks
• Definitions • What is a tree?
• True/False • Washington DC is the capital of the US
• NYC is the capital of NY state
• Classification • Categorize these objects (see next slide)
(Luria, 1976)
Sample Task
Teachers and learners assume that:
1. the goals of K-12 instruction are
a) to produce an independent learner
b) to prepare that learner for life after schooling
2. the learner brings along
a) an urge to compete and excel as an individual
b) age-appropriate preparation for
i. literacy development
ii. academic tasks
(Ibarra, 2001)
Mutually Adaptive Learning
Paradigm - MALP
• Instructional Model
• Elements from students’ learning paradigm
• Elements from U.S. learning paradigm
• Transitional approach to close achievement gap
(Marshall, 1998; DeCapua & Marshall, 2010)
Two Different Learning Paradigms
SLIFE U.S. Classrooms
Immediate Relevance
Future Relevance
Shared Responsibility
Individual Accountability
Pragmatic Tasks Academic Tasks
CONDITIONS
PROCESSES
ACTIVITIES
Interconnectedness
Oral Transmission
Independence
Written Word
(DeCapua & Marshall, 2009,2010; Marshall, 1994,1998)
Aspects of
Learning
Two Different Learning Paradigms
Familiar Cultural Paradigm
U.S. Mainstream Paradigm
Immediate Relevance
Future Relevance
Shared Responsibility
Pragmatic Tasks
CONDITIONS
PROCESSES
ACTIVITIES
Interconnectedness
Oral Transmission
Independence
(DeCapua & Marshall, 2009,2010; Marshall, 1994,1998)
Aspects of
Learning
Individual Accountability
Academic Tasks
Written Word
Standardized Testing!
Mutually Adaptive Learning Paradigm - MALP
Instructional Model
SLIFE
U.S. Classrooms
Interconnectedness Independence
Shared Responsibility
Individual Accountability
Pragmatic Tasks
Academic
Tasks
ACCEPT SLIFE CONDITIONS
COMBINE SLIFE & U.S. PROCESSES
FOCUS on U.S. ACTIVITIES with familiar language & content
Immediate
Relevance
Oral
Transmission
Future Relevance
Written Word
with
(DeCapua & Marshall, 2009, 2010; Marshall 1994, 1998)
Hallmarks/Deal Breakers of US Mainstream Classrooms
• Promise of future reward from education
• Individual hand raise
• Standardized testing
The “me” of culture
me
Marshall (2013) The farther a student is from the “me” of the culture, the less credible the promise of future reward from education will be for the student.
Marshall (2013) The farther a student is along the continuum of individualistic to collectivistic, the less invested the student will be in the individual hand raise.
Marshall (2013) The less comfortable a student is with mainstream processes of individual accountability and the written word and the less familiar a student is with academic tasks, the less successful the student will be on standardized testing.
Individual Accountability
Academic Tasks
Written Word
Standardized Testing!
Summary of Equity Pedagogy through Culturally Responsive Teaching with MALP – the Mutually Adaptive Learning Paradigm©
• Students who do not find the “promise of future reward” credible in their lives need immediate relevance
• Students who do not embrace the “individual hand raise” to
compete and excel need interconnectedness • Students who do not perform adequately on “standardized
tests” need the combination of: shared responsibility with built-in individual accountability oral transmission to scaffold the written word a clear focus on learning to execute academic tasks with familiar
language and content as scaffolds
Mutually Adaptive Learning Paradigm - MALP
Instructional Model
SLIFE
U.S. Classrooms
Interconnectedness Independence
Shared Responsibility
Individual Accountability
Pragmatic Tasks
Academic
Tasks
ACCEPT SLIFE CONDITIONS
COMBINE SLIFE & U.S. PROCESSES
FOCUS on U.S. ACTIVITIES with familiar language & content
Immediate
Relevance
Oral
Transmission
Future Relevance
Written Word
with
(DeCapua & Marshall, 2009, 2010; Marshall 1994, 1998)
Questions to ask about the Mystery Bag
• Do you know what it is?
• Do you know what it is called in your language?
• What do you do with it? What is it for?
• Do you like it?
• Give 4 words to describe it.
CHECKING ANSWERS
• One by one, check all the answers
• All participate in the checking
› Give answers - tabulate them
› Write answers up as others give them
› Copy down all descriptive words
And now………
Apple Collection
More about MALP?
Websites:
http://malp.pbworks.com
Http://malpeducation.com
Helaine W. Marshall [email protected]
Andrea DeCapua [email protected]