Teachers’ Development Day (Yuen Long District)

Scaffolding in English Lessons

Isabella Lau, Maymay Law and Eva Wan

ofYuen Long Wai Chow School

8 March 2013

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Housekeeping RapWe welcome you all to our hood

And hope you find this workshop good.

There are some things we want to share

So listen up and here we care.

Immobilise your mobile phones

Don’t ring your friends or don’t call home.

We don’t do coffee or serve snacks

But out there you can get Big Macs.

Without any more ado

Let me introduce our crew.

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Introduction

This Deputy Head, here’s Isabella.

I’ve always got my umbrella

Because I’m a dramatic storyteller.

And over here is Eva Wan.

I’ll show you as much as I can

Because I’m the woman with a plan.

This is my good friend, Maymay.

I live in Discovery Bay

I’m here to give you some ways.

And over there is Wong.

I’m the one who wrote this song.

Let us share and play

We hope you enjoy yourselves today.

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Brainstorming

What is “Scaffolding”?

What is it? Who will use it?

When to use it?

How to use it?

Why should we use it?

Where to use it?

Sharing

Time limit: 1 minute

What is “Scaffolding”?

What is “Scaffolding”?

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Scaffolding

Scaffolding is a temporary structure used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures.

Wikipedia

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Scaffolding in language acquisition Teaching must aim not at today’s but at

tomorrow’s development. Thus, students need to be challenged, but with support and encouragement. With support and assistance, they can exercise their next level of development and, thus progress in learning and development. The support and assistance that permits his performance has been referred to as scaffolding.

Lev Vygotshy (1896-1934)

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Scaffolding through questioning Using processing questions to construct pupils’

ideas for better answers, or help elaborate children’s meaning

Instructional conversation that continues with questioning, modeling, and feedback from the teacher

Activities that are well-designed and well-sequenced help students accomplish the main task of the lesson

Purpose of questioning in different stages of reading

Pre-reading:

Motivate students’ interest and build background knowledge on the topic of the text

While-reading:

Help students monitor their comprehension of the text

Post-reading:

Organize the information so they can have a better understanding, a better memory of what they have read

Purpose of questioning before students write

Generating and gathering ideas for writing

Preparing for writing

Scaffolding for support

Identifying main ideas and supporting details

Activity 1

Gangnam Style

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Learning Channels

sighthearing

motion touch

Our School’s Beliefs

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Through Learning

Gain Knowledge

High Participation

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Learning

Knowledge

Participation

Our Beliefs

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Scaffolding in our Lessons The effective way to learn is to have fun.

Engaged learning is fun because it is challenging, relevant, and purposeful but is supported in a way that makes success possible.

Almost all students can and will learn under supportive teaching and an effective learning environments.

Sharing

Time limit: 1 minute

2 Effective Daily Routines for English Lessons

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Print-rich environment

Zero-noise Signal after each task

A sense of belonging

Daily Routines during English Lessons

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Assigning roles

Social Skills

Different structures of group work

Daily Routines during English Lessons (Cont’)

In our Lessons

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Primary 1(My Friend, Oscar)

Warm up Singing and clapping

Pre-task Vocabulary Review Pair-work Looking for Miss Law’s School Bag (Think-Pair-Share) Shared-writing

While-task Looking for School Bags for the animals (Gallery Walk)

Post-task Presentation (Numbered Heads Together)

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Pre-tasks Pre-lesson worksheet

Singing and

ClappingDemonstratio

n and Pair-work

Shared-writing

Silent Reading

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While-task

Looking for the school bags for the animals

Gallery Walk

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Primary 5(Police Stories)

Daily Talk

Pre-task Brainstorming (What was happening when Miss

Wan stepped inside the classroom yesterday?) Miming

While-task Making up a recount about what happened to

Miss Wan

Post-task Presentation (Numbered Heads Together)

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Pre-tasks

Brainstorming

Miming

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While-task

Making up a recount about what happened to Miss Wan

Group Writing

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Reflections

Successfully prevent free-riders

Make sure our students are

always on tasks

Students meet our expectation

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Q&A

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Assigning roles

KS1 Group leader, Writer , Speaker, Time keeper

KS2Group leader, Secretary, Presenter, Housekeeper

Presentation

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Social Skills

A: Can you say something about it?

B: Sure. I think…

A: Hi, nice to meet you.

B: Nice to meet you too.

ExamplesA: It’s your turn.

B: Okay.

A: You’re brilliant!

B: Thanks.

A: Thank you.

B: You’re welcome. A: Here you are.

B: Thank you.

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Different Structures of Group work

Rules for group work need to be established and reinforced

Challenging tasks

Educational tasks in response to the learning objectives

Opportunities for individual accountability and interdependence in the group

Sufficient time to complete the group work