Content area: Emergency Medical Responders
Grade Level(s): Grades 11 and 12
How did you modify this lesson for English Learners? In this class with Early Intermediate EL, I modified my lesson plan by putting emphasis on accessing prior knowledge, modeling and demonstrating, teacher’s speech modification and offering more visual through the use of videos and PowerPoints. I assigned students to work with a partner (for think-pair-share or talking-partners) and strongly encouraged for collaborative group work after modeling the required task. Lastly, I redirect students having difficulty with content to complete a remediation form
Which scaffolding activities did you use? I used accessing prior knowledge, modeling and demonstrating, teacher’s speech modification, visuals through the use of videos and PowerPoints, collaborative grouping and think-pair-share or talking partners’ activity. …show more content…
Were students engaged in the lesson? How do you know? I used accessing prior knowledge to find out what students already know and from there I relate the students learning to something in my background to better understand the language used. As much as possible, I used visuals and PowerPoints to explain each of the new words. I modeled and demonstrated the hands-on activates with the use of visual aids and techniques in order for the students to be successful. I allowed for collaborative group work to engage students, and assessed the final work products and group presentations by using an observation check list, which provided me records of what the students were doing during the grouping