#5thchat Archive
#5thchat is for people interested in chatting about topics in education, especially as they relate to Grade 5. The goal is to connect people who enjoy learning & sharing, plus supporting & creating partnerships worldwide!
Tuesday March 29, 2016
8:00 PM EDT
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Welcome to please introduce yourself. Brian from Rochester, MN MS EL teacher.
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One hour until ! Our topic is infusing fun into the classroom.
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Jordan from Princeton, NJ. 5th grade teacher, once again tweeting from Whole Foods.
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Paul Solarz - tweeting from my niece's volleyball practice. :)
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Math Support Teacher for grades 2 and 3. My mom's family is from Holland and all my relatives speak Dutch, but not me.
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Jessie Erickson - multi-tasking and glad to be here.
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love Holland. Beautiful language and country. Have you been there?
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My first year teaching, I had a student who only spoke Spanish. I did my best to fake my way through it!
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A1: Travel to Japan, Portugal, Spain caused some lang issues. Tried to learn key phrases and understand manners.
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Yes, several times. The language barrier is difficult, but many speak some English. Helps me sympathize for my ELL students.
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It helps if you have experienced what they go through daily.
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A1: I spent time abroad learning German. I had to tell myself you won't be able to understand everything.
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5th. I had two years of Spanish in high school, but it didn't really help! :)
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My name is Matt. Running late to . Teach 5th grade in AL. Graduated w/my Masters in ESL in December & super proud!
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A2: I think technology can be crucial here to provide access to anything.
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As a math teacher I use what I can find, writing out problems, and any props to show the math and break it down.
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A2: IWB flipcharts, visuals on the board, images and graphics uploaded to Google classroom, anchor charts, easel, etc.
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A1: Trying to communicate with ELL parents who don't speak English. Find common words, use visuals.
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What are IWB flip charts?
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The challenge is to go at the right pace for the ELL student and the others in the room. Tough to know.
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A2: Find digital media to enhance lessons. YouTube. Google image search.
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What type of math are you currently doing in you class?
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Promethean, interactive white board flipchats - like power points, but interactive.
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Equivalent Fractions with third graders and subtraction with regrouping with second. Seems like ELL students knew place value.
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A2 Lots of illustrations and diagrams, especially with math and science.
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Have you ever had students act out the math physically with embedded language?
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Actually, yeah. Lots of physical modeling, too.
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Awesome! Bet the Ss love it.
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A3: I like to do a concept development with change. I let them draw or write what changes.
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A3: I have only one ESL student - I find that it is easiest to provide peer support to this student. "Kid speak" works well.
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Yes, and it was difficult and frustrating as a child not to understand others.
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Never underestimate the power of social interaction! Provide classroom environment that gives lots of opps for this.
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A3: Try to incorporate Ss cultural backgrounds as much as possible to help them relate to concepts.
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Yes personal experiences are powerful. Talk about China and government today compared to the U.S.
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Ss light up when you say or do something they recognize from their home country.
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Simple phrases like: Hello, Goodbye, please and thank you can make the world of difference!
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maybe even something from their home culture.
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Yes! I learned my numbers from 1-10 and hello, goodbye, how are you, in Albanian and it really helped me connect!
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A4: We do a great deal of vocabulary study, linguistic/non-linguistic, voc. games, visual models as much as possible, discussions.
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I mean vocabulary and structures necessary to communicate.
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My favorite word in Portugal "obrigado" - brought a smile every time!
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What kind of games? Have you heard of link up?
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too many funny German words to choose from.
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Old fashioned Memory games help make connections introducing a few math symbols or terms.
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If anyone wants to try link up. will post a goog doc description after the chat. Great activity for student creativity and choice.
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Swat, quiz-quiz trade, match mine, inside-outside circles, Kahoot!, Vocabulary victim, logic line up, agree/disagree
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A3: Google translate had helped communication both ways. Also, Zach in Joplin, MO joining way late (busy day playing chauffeur)
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S using google translate. He said it made all the language weird though. Researching virtual reality. https://t.co/TBs38RW7AH
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I will post Match Mine, Vocabulary Victim and Logic Line up
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10 minutes until ! Our topic is making learning fun. What do you think is important?
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We are using different strategies to help with prof. development. Way to go
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A5: Think alouds and model, model, model. Where to find samples, models and reliable resources.
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Dear - I am presenting on using Twitter for Prof. learning... why should Ts use twitter?
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Because I learned more in one year of than I did in 15 years of prof. development!
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Personalized and convenient. Accessible anytime.
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Thanks so much for moderating tonight's chat Brian!!!
