Full Description
Drawing on their work with more than 800 teachers and administrators from more than 29 districts, the authors present a pedagogical model that challenges teachers to modify the way they plan and implement their lessons to better support the linguistic, cognitive, and social-emotional development of culturally and linguistically diverse students.
Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Preface xi
Sociocultural Context of Today and Why We Need This Conversation-Based System xi
Evolution of the Arch Model for Collaborative Conversation-Based Instruction xii
How to Navigate this Book xvii
1. Introduction 1
Why Conversation as a Means of Instruction? 1
The Arch of Collaborative, Conversation-Based Instruction 11
2. Laying the Foundation: Creating a Safe Classroom Environment 15
The Affective Filter and Its Importance in the Classroom 15
Creating Norms for Collaborative Conversations 16
The Importance of Teaching Social-Emotional Skills
in Facilitating Academic Engagement 23
3. Building the Columns: Accessing and Capitalizing on Teachers' and Students' Assets 25
Reframing Our Outlook: Funds of Knowledge Are Assets Not Deficits 25
Home Language 27
Background Knowledge and Experience 30
Social Interaction Skills 33
Content Literacy Skills 36
Motivations 38
Aptitudes 39
Reviewing Our Assets: The Columns of Strength 45
4. Framing the Scaffolding: Providing Differentiated Support 46
Listening 47
Purposeful Planning 54
Task Cards 56
Complex Questioning 65
Habits of Collaboration Tools 71
The Scaffolding and Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) 78
5. Integrating the Voussoir Blocks: Enacting Meaningful, Complex, Collaborative, Conversation-Based Lessons 81
Language and Literacy 82
Contextualization 95
Challenging and Complex Activities 108
Collaboration 115
Purposeful Conversation 123
6. Placing the Keystone: Designing the Joint Productive Activity (JPA) 130
The JPA: The Keystone That Holds the Arch System Together 131
Building a Joint Productive Activity (JPA) 138
Considerations for Getting Started 163
References 167
Index 175
About the Authors 186
