EL Education Protocols

EL Education

Protocols & strategies to build engagement

Collaboration & Responsibility

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General Protocols & Strategies

Checking for Understanding & Ongoing Assessment

Building Academic Vocabulary

general protocols & strategies

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Back to Back, Face to Face

Chalk Talk

Science Talks

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Dance Card

Interactive Word Wall

Exit Tickets

Anchor Charts

Praise, Question, Suggestion

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back-to-back & face-to-face

chalk talk

Dance Card

interactive word wall

Praise, question, suggestion

anchor charts

science Talks

Exit Tickets

checking for understanding and ongoing assessment

When we check all students' levels of understanding throughout each lesson, it sends the message that everyone's thinking is important and necessary, and furthers the learning and engagement of all. Using the checking for understanding and ongoing assessment strategies allow us to track learning and instruction on the spot.

Equity Sticks Equity sticks ensure academic equity by allowing teachers to physically track who they have called on during the course of a lesson.

Thumb-o-Meter This strategy allows students to show degree of agreement, readiness for tasks, or comfort with a learning target/concept.

Tracking Progress Tracking progress allows students to see their cummulative and collaborative efforts toward mastery of a learning target.

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building academic vocabulary

Vocabulary is the foundational building block of reading comprehension, writing fluency, oral articulation, and content-based knowledge. Protocols and strategies for emphasizing vocabulary, like those below, play a large part in the active classroom, serve multiple academic purposes at once, and are appropriate for any grade level and content area.

Vocabulary Notebooks SVES (Stephens Vocabulary Elaboration Strategy) requires students to write and define new terms. Using a dictionary and reviewing the notebooks are important.

List/Group/Label This strategy rests upon the critical thinking required to identify relationships between words. It uses three steps for organizing a general vocabulary list into meaningful groups of words.

Semantic Webbing This strategy builds on students' background knowledge and experiences, allowing them to organize and synthesize knowledge.

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