CALLA Lesson Plan – Flashcards
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What do students and teachers do during the Preparation stage?
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The students identify and reflect on prior knowledge related to the lesson topic. The teacher provides an overview of the learning objectives, introduces essential new vocabulary, and may provide a concrete experience.
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What do students and teachers do during the Presentation stage?
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The teacher presents and explains new information, skills, and/or learning strategies. The information is presented through a variety of modes to accommodate different learning styles.
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What do students and teachers do during the Practice stage?
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Students actively practice new concepts, skills, and/or learning strategies. Cooperative learning activities may be featured.
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What do students and teachers do during the Evaluation stage?
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Students practice both individual and cooperative self-evaluation. How well did they learn the material? What do they still not understand?
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What do students and teachers do during the Expansion stage?
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Students integrate what was learned in the lesson into their existing knowledge frameworks. They restructure and refine prior knowledge as needed, and apply the new knowledge and skills.
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Describe appropriate activities for the Expansion stage.
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Appropriate activities at this stage are: Teacher asks students to discuss their feelings/opinions about two questions: how has your prior knowledge changed? Also, how can this new information be used outside of school: in your home with your family, in your neighborhood, or in your cultural background? The learning strategy here is reflection. Teachers may ask students to do further reading and research on the topic.
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Describe appropriate activities for the Evaluation stage.
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Appropriate activities at this stage are: Students check the level of their performance so that they can gain an understanding of what they have learned and identify any areas that need review. Activities can be cooperative or individual. Teacher must provide a variety of assessments; assessments cannot always be of the same type. Teacher can provide alternative assessments, including self-evaluation.
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Describe appropriate activities for the Practice stage.
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Appropriate activities at this stage are: Allow students to practice the new information in a variety of ways, according to learning styles. Cooperative learning must occur during this phase. Students can now use manipulatives; draw pictures; conduct an experiment; make a map, graph, timeline or chart; discuss how to solve a problem (think aloud); Reciprocal Teaching of a reading; process writing.
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Describe appropriate activities for the Presentation stage.
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Appropriate activities at this stage are: First, teacher presents material orally with support (realia, props, manipulatives, visuals, etc.). Present material with variety, according to learning styles. Second, student open their texts and the written material is presented. Does language need to be adapted? Academic language activities could include how to ask the teacher questions or how to answer higher-level comprehension questions.
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Describe appropriate activities for the Preparation stage.
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Appropriate activities at this stage are: Find out what students already know and what they don't know yet. Appropriate activities include brainstorming, making class or group graphic organizers, providing a concrete activity, working with manipulatives, teacher demonstration, role play, use of videos, or field trip. Provide an overview and express what the objectives are. Perhaps identify new vocabulary.
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Common learning strategies used in the Preparation stage are...
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Common learning strategies at this phase are elaboration, advance organization, and prediction.
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Common learning strategies used in the Presentation stage are...
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Common learning strategies at this phase are monitoring comprehension (of teacher modeling during the first step oral presentation), questioning for clarification, selective attention, elaboration, note-taking, and inferencing.
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Common learning strategies used in the Practice stage are...
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Common learning strategies at this phase are grouping, deduction/induction, imagery, and monitoring production. Cooperative learning must occur during this phase.
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Common learning strategies used in the Evaluation stage are...
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Common learning strategies at this phase are self-assessment, self-management, summarizing, verifying predictions, using positive self-talk to reassure themselves of their capabilities.
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Common learning strategies used in the Expansion stage are...
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The learning strategy used during Expansion is reflection.
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Who is a CALLA lesson designed for?
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*students learning ESL in second language settings *students in K12 schools who need to transition FROM either standard ESL programs or bilingual programs TO grade-level content classrooms with native English speaking peers *students at the advanced beginning and intermediate proficiency levels *students with BICS (acquired either in a classroom or "out on the streets") but not CALP appropriate to grade level *students who have CALP in their own native langauge but not in English *English-dominant students (both native speakers and ELLs) who do not have CALP in any language
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What does CALLA stand for?
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Cognitive Academic Language Learning Approach
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Who developed CALLA?
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Ana Uhl Chamot and J. Michael O'Malley developed CALLA in 1994.
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What are the 3 techniques of CALLA?
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CALLA teachers provide content area instruction, academic English instruction, and learning strategy instruction.
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Which of the 3 techniques of CALLA should be the primary focus?
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content area
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What are the 3 categories of learning strategies?
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metacognitive, cognitive, and social/affective
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What kind of English is taught in a CALLA classroom?
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CALP, which is a term coined by Jim Cummins and means Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency
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CALLA's authors recommend that ELLs enter grade-level classrooms in this order:
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science, math, social studies, language arts
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Why are learning strategies important?
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They help students learn, retain, and use information more effectively.
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What is the proper procedure to teach students a learning strategy?
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name the strategy, tell students what the strategy does to assist learning, model the strategy, provide ample practice
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What does scaffolding mean?
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the teacher or other skilled language user helps the ELL communicate
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What are the four language modalities?
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reading, process writing, speaking, listening
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What does SIOP stand for?
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Sheltered Instructional Observational Protocol
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What is SIOP?
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a lesson plan template that contains accommodations for ELLs
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Which FL Department of Edcuation office is in charge of finding and evaluating materials?
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Bureau of Curriculum and Instruction
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What is a major tool?
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material that provides instructional content and learning activities (e.g., a textbook)
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What is ancillary material?
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tools created to supplement the major tool (e.g., CDs or DVDs)
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How often is the list of materials updated?
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the catalog changes every January, but new materials are not added until April
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Where can a teacher find the list of all approved materials in K-12 education in Florida?
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in an online catalog located in the FL DOE website (within the Bureau of Curriculum and Instruction's pages)
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Which FL law requires that the Holocaust, African American history, Hispanic contributions, and women's contributions are taught in Florida schools?
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Florida Statute 1003.42
