hong, maximizing instructional time

Chinese Teachers Summer Institute

September 2, 2009

Yuqing Hong, Senior Curriculum Specialist

New York City Department of Education

Office of English Language Learners

Maximizing Instructional Time with Differentiated

Activities

Overview

How to maximize instructional and student learning time?

Effective differentiated strategies that promote the development of four modalities in learning Chinese

Search and SignWhat are the strength of your students? 你的学生的优势是什么？

What is one goal you have for the coming new school year? 你新学年的一个教学目标是什么？

What are the needs of your students? 你的学生需要在哪方面提高？

Give an example of how a rule or routine was/will be implemented in your class. 你是如何制定你班学生要执行的行为条约和课堂次序 ?

What do you think is the most important skills your students should learn? 你认为你的学生最需要掌握的技能是什么？

What is one way that you have helped a struggling student to learn Chinese? 你如何帮助你的一个后进生学习中文？

How do you assess your students? 你用什么方法测试你的学生的知识掌握程度？

How does high quality instruction look like? 什么是高质量的教学？

What is a question you have about Chinese instruction that you hope is answered today? 你今天希望得到中文教学哪一方面的指导？

Research finding: Time is Success

Time spent in learning yield higher correlations with achievement than any other teacher and student behavior studied

No Time to waste:

45 minutes (185 days)

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35 minute

Total lost time: 2775 minutes, 62 days

Maximizing instructional and learning time:

Classroom set-upRituals and Routines

- signal for students - signal for help - turn in work - what to do after task

Transitional timeHigh quality student interaction

Learning Pyramid

90%

75%

50%

30%

20%

10%

5%

Teach others/use learning

Practice by doing

Discussion group

Demonstration

Audio-visual

Reading

Lecture

Who are your students?

Facts about learning styles:

We tend to teach according to how we learn best.

Most people do not use sight, hearing, and touch equally during learning.

46% of people are visual learners

35% of people are kinesthetic learners

Who are your students? Multiple intelligences:

Verbal-LinguisticLogical-MathematicalVisual-SpatialMusicalBodily-KinestheticInterpersonalIntrapersonalNaturalist

Plot Your Profile

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5                  

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0                  Avid

readerGood

atdrawing

Lifeof

party

Athletic Likesto bealone

Likesmath

Cansing

Likes to beoutdoors

Effective Strategies for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language

Vocabulary development

- Show, don’t tell

1. 瞒着：不让别人知道2. 节约：省减，限制3. 依依不舍：留恋，不忍分离

Give one, take one1. Make a sentence using one of the two words. Write it in one of the

box. Be sure to include an example to show your understanding of what that word means.

2. Repeat the procedure until two boxes are filled.3. Share your sentence with a partner. Record his/her sentence in an

empty box. 4. Repeat this procedure until all boxes are filled

Effective Strategies for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language

Concept Brainstorm

音乐音乐理论 作曲家 歌唱家 / 歌星 演奏家

乐曲 音响 音乐类别 音乐厅

Effective Strategies for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language

Using Music to Enhance Learning

Note-Taking

Listen to the song “Where is Spring?”

Take notes individually

Compare your note with your partner

Compare your note with your group members

Let’s sing the song together

春天在哪里呀？春天在哪里呀？ 春天在哪里呀？ 春天在那青翠的山林里 这里有红花呀，这里有绿草 还有那会唱歌的小黄鹂 嘀哩哩嘀哩嘀哩哩， 嘀哩哩嘀哩嘀哩哩 春天在青翠的山林里， 还有那会唱歌的小黄鹂 春天在哪里 春天在哪里呀？

春天在那湖水的倒影里 映出红的花呀，映出绿的草 还有那会唱歌的小黄鹂 嘀哩哩嘀哩嘀哩哩， 嘀哩哩嘀哩嘀哩哩 春天在湖水的倒影里， 还有那会唱歌的小黄鹂 嘀哩哩嘀哩嘀哩哩， 嘀哩哩嘀哩嘀哩哩 春天在湖水的倒影里， 还有那会唱歌的小黄鹂

Carousal Activity:

What are some words that can describe summer, spring, winter?

Compose a short version of the song using words in the chart:

__ 天在哪里呀__ 天在哪里____ 在那 _________这里有 _____ 呀这里有 _____还有那 ____________________________

It is music time

Group project:

Choose a tune and write the lyric to demonstrate the learning of a content objective

Sing to the tune of “London Bridge”

2+8=10

5+5=10

3+7=10

1+9=10

Most Important Word

What is something you learned today that you will apply in your instruction? How will you apply it? Design a refrigerator magnet that reminds you of today’s learning.

谢谢！