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Friday, September 16, 2016
Sessions (Round 4) 4:15-5:15 Elliott F019: Are You Understanding the Words That Are Coming Out of my Mouth? Thomas Sauer – thomas.sauer@gmail.com Description: How do you know your students understand? Checking for understanding is a powerful diagnostic tool that helps teachers ensure that students are engaged in a lesson and understand what the teacher is trying to get across. These checks should be frequent and should happen in an ongoing manner throughout the lesson, as it can create a detailed picture of student learning for a teacher. If students don’t understand what a teacher is saying, there is NO learning taking place. Through the check for understanding, a teacher will have an accurate picture of what students can do at any given moment and the opportunity to modify the learning experiences to increase student understanding. If students do not understand, the teacher must provide additional strategies to make the language comprehensible and ensure that all students can meet or exceed the targets of the lesson. This session shares strategies that teachers can incorporate to check for understanding and gives access to TELL Project resources that will help teachers implement this important aspect of the performance & feedback loop. I Can Statements: - Participants can identify a variety of non-verbal and verbal check for understanding strategies. - Participants can design activities that have a built-in opportunity for students to demonstrate their level of understanding. - Participants can use resources from the TELL Project to help them evaluate their own effectiveness when checking for understanding. Target Audience: Any/All Levels Language of Session: English Examples Provided In: Chinese, English, Japanese, Russian, Spanish Applicable/Useful for: Any Language Core Practice: Use Target Language 90%+, Provide Appropriate Share your conference experience on Twitter (@KWLAonline #kwla2016), Facebook (KWLAonline), Instagram (KWLAonline)