Teachers’ Development Day (Yuen Long District) Scaffolding in English Lessons Isabella Lau, Maymay Law and Eva Wan of Yuen Long Wai Chow School 8 March 2013

2 Housekeeping Rap We welcome you all to our hood And hope you find this workshop good. There are some things we want to share So listen up and here we care. Immobilise your mobile phones Don’t ring your friends or don’t call home. We don’t do coffee or serve snacks But out there you can get Big Macs. Without any more ado Let me introduce our crew.

3 Introduction This Deputy Head, here’s Isabella. I’ve always got my umbrella Because I’m a dramatic storyteller. And over here is Eva Wan. I’ll show you as much as I can Because I’m the woman with a plan.

This is my good friend, Maymay. I live in Discovery Bay I’m here to give you some ways. And over there is Wong. I’m the one who wrote this song. Let us share and play We hope you enjoy yourselves today.

5 Brainstorming What is “Scaffolding”?

What is it? Who will use it? When to use it? How to use it? Why should we use it? Where to use it?

Sharing Time limit: 1 minute What is “Scaffolding”?

8 Scaffolding Scaffolding is a temporary structure used to support people and material in the construction or repair of buildings and other large structures. Wikipedia

9 Scaffolding in language acquisition Teaching must aim not at today’s but at tomorrow’s development. Thus, students need to be challenged, but with support and encouragement. With support and assistance, they can exercise their next level of development and, thus progress in learning and development. The support and assistance that permits his performance has been referred to as scaffolding. Lev Vygotshy ( )

10 Scaffolding through questioning Using processing questions to construct pupils’ ideas for better answers, or help elaborate children’s meaning Instructional conversation that continues with questioning, modeling, and feedback from the teacher Activities that are well-designed and well- sequenced help students accomplish the main task of the lesson

Purpose of questioning in different stages of reading Pre-reading: Motivate students’ interest and build background knowledge on the topic of the text While-reading: Help students monitor their comprehension of the text Post-reading: Organize the information so they can have a better understanding, a better memory of what they have read

Purpose of questioning before students write Generating and gathering ideas for writing Preparing for writing Scaffolding for support Identifying main ideas and supporting details

Activity 1

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15 Learning Channels sighthearingmotiontouch

Our School’s Beliefs

18 Through Learning Gain Knowledge High Participation

19 Learning Knowledge Participation Our Beliefs

20 Scaffolding in our Lessons The effective way to learn is to have fun. Engaged learning is fun because it is challenging, relevant, and purposeful but is supported in a way that makes success possible. Almost all students can and will learn under supportive teaching and an effective learning environments.

Sharing Time limit: 1 minute 2 Effective Daily Routines for English Lessons

22 Print-rich environment Zero-noise Signal after each task A sense of belonging Daily Routines during English Lessons

23 Assigning roles Social Skills Different structures of group work Daily Routines during English Lessons (Cont’)

In our Lessons

25 Primary 1 (My Friend, Oscar) Warm up  Singing and clapping Pre-task  Vocabulary Review  Pair-work  Looking for Miss Law’s School Bag (Think-Pair-Share)  Shared-writing While-task  Looking for School Bags for the animals (Gallery Walk) Post-task  Presentation (Numbered Heads Together)

26 Pre-tasks Pre-lesson worksheet Singing and Clapping Demonstration and Pair-work Shared- writing Silent Reading

27 While-task Looking for the school bags for the animals Gallery Walk

28 Primary 5 (Police Stories) Daily Talk Pre-task  Brainstorming (What was happening when Miss Wan stepped inside the classroom yesterday?)  Miming While-task  Making up a recount about what happened to Miss Wan Post-task  Presentation (Numbered Heads Together)

29 Pre-tasks Brainstorming Miming

30 While-task Making up a recount about what happened to Miss Wan Group Writing

31 Reflections Successfully prevent free-riders Make sure our students are always on tasks Students meet our expectation

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Q&A

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37 Assigning roles KS1 Group leader, Writer, Speaker, Time keeper KS2 Group leader, Secretary, Presenter, Housekeeper Presentation

38 Social Skills A: Can you say something about it? B: Sure. I think… A: Hi, nice to meet you. B: Nice to meet you too. Examples A: It’s your turn. B: Okay. A: You’re brilliant! B: Thanks. A: Thank you. B: You’re welcome. A: Here you are. B: Thank you.

39 Different Structures of Group work Rules for group work need to be established and reinforced Challenging tasks Educational tasks in response to the learning objectives Opportunities for individual accountability and interdependence in the group Sufficient time to complete the group work