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Unit 1 Assignment 1 Effective Practice For Teaching Language

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Domain 1: Effective Practice for Teaching Language

Effective teachers of CLD students must understand their linguistic background, culture and English language learning processes when planning instruction. Learning environments that support language acquisition, literacy development and content area achievement provide opportunities for increased academic success in reading, writing, speaking and listening. Planning and preparation for effective instruction involves building on CLD students backgrounds and experiences, scaffolding skills and concepts and appropriate strategies to engage all students.

Teachers that have an awareness of BICS (Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills) and CALP (Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency) can recognize …show more content…

Effective classrooms that are welcoming, emotionally safe and affirming reduce a student’s affective filter and promote a supportive learning environment. One strategy to lower a student’s affective filter is to tap into their prior knowledge. An effective teacher that makes connections with their CLD students backgrounds, experiences, interests and strengths can boost their self-confidence and provide an encouraging academic setting.

Standard 1.a. Describing Language

Effective teaching lessons should incorporate strategies that move CLD students from the known to the unknown to promote development of conceptual understanding, vocabulary knowledge and proficiency in reading, writing, speaking and listening. One strategy that provided my CLD students an opportunity to use their own background knowledge from what is known to making sense with the unknown was the Linking Language Strategy. This built a bridge between the specific content being taught to elicit connections, activating existing knowledge and vocabulary.

Standard 1.b. Language Acquisition and

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