Constructive Conversation Smart Start Lessons MELD Constructive Conversation Smart Start Lessons Secondary Presented By Josie Stevens

Purpose of Start Smart Lessons MELD Start Smart (Days1-10) Establish Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Classroom Management Administer SEL Linguistic Screener Introductory Contrastive Analysis Lessons Obtain a beginning of the year writing sample Purpose of Start Smart Lessons

Time is ‘money’ The way you use your TIME will pay off big today!

A B Corners! Letter off A-B Participants go to their assigned corners and discuss the questions on the charts. Facilitator circulates and collects language samples to use later in the lesson.

Constructive Conversation Skills Posters Two of the original constructive conversation skills posters from J. Zweirs

Constructive Conversation Skills Posters Adapted elementary version of the Constructive Conversation posters.

Constructive Conversations

Constructive Conversation Skills Posters Adapted poster for Elementary MELD

6th Grade: How has social media impacted the way we communicate in the 21st century?

Rings of Culture AGE/YOUTH Age/YOUTH Gender Religion Class Nationality Ethnic (5 minutes) Rings of Culture Say: Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Pedagogy starts with ethnic culture but it does not stop there. Being responsive also means being responsive to national, class, gender, and age cultures. [Note, only if asked: being responsive to religious culture is done by being tolerant about the student’s constitutional religious rights and teaching about religions in history without preferring one]. CLR or culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy operates on the research-based premise that a student’s experience with cultural and linguistic practices shapes their behaviors and creates certain learning preferences that can be responded to maximize learning.

Constructive Conversations MELD Constructive Conversations Start Smart (Days 11-15) Students will learn how to use the 4 Constructive Conversation Skills along with Standard English in order to… Participate in a Range of Collaborative Discussions Use Academic Language Fortify Complex Output Engage with Complex Text

California Content Standards SL.6.1 Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher- led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics and texts, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly. L.6.1 Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking. L.6.2 Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study. L.6.3 Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading or listening. RI.6.1 Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.

Discussion & Participation Protocols Lessons at a Glance Standards MELD Objective Depth of Knowledge DOK Essential Questions Access Strategies Discussion & Participation Protocols Vocabulary

Lessons at a Glance Opening!

Corners! A B

Participation and Discussion Protocols

Conversation Norms To Video

Various Text Sources

Academic Vocabulary Development

Note Taking and Language Assessment Resource Packet

Day 5+ Culminating Task Students will create a blog that argues the ideas of self-expression.

Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Recall & Reproduction DOK 2 Skills & Concepts / Basic Reasoning DOK 3 Strategic Thinking & Complex Reasoning DOK 4 Extended Thinking The lessons take the students along a continuum of task that progress through all 4 Depth of Knowledge levels.

DOK Level 4: Extended Thinking High-Cognitive Rigor Analyze multiple sources of evidence, or multiple works by the same author, or across genres, time periods, themes By day 5 of the lesson, students have progressed to tasks with a ceiling DOK level of 4 because of tasks that require students to (click) Analyze multiple sources of evidence, or multiple works by the same author, or across genres, time periods, themes Apply understanding in a novel way, provide argument or justification for application. Apply understanding in a novel way, provide argument or justification for application

Constructive Conversations Start Smart Lessons

Constructive Conversations Start Smart Lessons