Scenario Response 10

Top 10 High Quality Language Practices

1. use graphic organizers to promote organization
2. use pictures and posters to promote understanding through visualization
3. incorporate verbal and written components to the activities
4. use a variety of strategies to meet the different learning styles and needs of the students
5. form collaborative learning groups
6. allow for peer and teacher feedback
7. emphasis and reinforce vocabulary
8. provide opportunities for self and peer assessment (informal/formal)
9. make one on one or peer tutoring/assistance avaiable
10. create a non threatening environment that encourages learning through mistakes while making connections to other subjects

Criteria for selection:

follows curriculum standards
project learning based
on hands
encourages collaboration and engagement of the students
promotes a deeper level of understanding of the concept
related to real life situations