BSLA - Day 2

 Linguistically diverse and /or culturally diverse?

What is Linguistically diversity

Language 1 (L1), Mother Tongue

Language 2 (L2)

Education: Home Language

Benefits? Physical, Scoial Economic Cultural

Dialect at home, school.

More language we have the better we 

43% of the world's population is bilingual

17% of the world's population is multilingual.

79.4% of New Zealand is monolingual (2018 census data)

What is Culture

We decide if the backpack is welcome

What is Culturally Responsive Pedagogy's purpose?

Why do some teachers have more success than others

1. Academic success is fundamental - our community sends the most treasured positions 
2. Building and reinforcement of positive cultural identity
3. Empowering students to critically examine inequities that are reproduced by society (Ladson-Billings, 1995a 1995b, 2011)

We don't need to be compatible with our students; we need to be culturally connected to them.

PhOM Teaching 

Log in to UC online

BSLA - Resources to get to Tier 1, Tier 2, then the Taumata comes up

Suffixes and Prefixes can be taught in any order!

E.g. Taumata 10 

Through the lessons, there is a lot of repetition, think-pair-share, Tukana-Teina, explicit teaching, and prompting.

Extension Resources for Extension. 

image Word inquiry

Teaching Vocabulary Inquiry - Can be done in pairs.

Morphology and vocabulary are more at this level.

Assessment Plenary

As this is a nationwide program, the data is a large cohort. (Y5 cohort is the largest in the world) Non-word reading and non-word spelling.

Māori students with and without BSLA - 

Assessment Excellence intersects with teaching - image assessment selection

There is an assessment that maps the building blocks in BSLA.

NE - grapheme level - what it looks like, so if they have all sounds correct at the Kakano level, then they can move up 

Y4-8 Morpheme level - what does inter mean?

DIBELS - Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy, measuring oral fluency.  E.g. DIBELS ORF - is required by the ministry, DIBELS Maze - is a good measure of Reading Comprehension or can do PATs

SVR - ?

Strength-based assessment

This student knows letters make sounds, a few initial sounds, long words have many letters, letter formation

If a spelling test, turn off spelling and therefore writing. 

First, help consolidate initial sounds, tier 2 intervention. Needs help with recognising sounds in the middle of words, which develops last, matching consonants with sounds.  Student recognises word might not be correct, so has underlined it as in writing - self-awareness.

Assessment for Y4-8 BSLA

Recommended Assessment Schedule Y4-8: ORF first, and PhOM, 

BSLA - Y0-3, testing shows where to start from - Alien words (non-word spelling and reading assessment)

BSLA - Y4-8, this is more of a pretest/baseline. This only needs to be done at the beginning, not the beginning of each Taumata - this is testing the morphology, as many at this level can at least read.

Scale score from PATs - Read well below - 2 year behind, Yellow below - 1 year behind, Green at expected level, Blue Above

Interesting to see how much they read in a minute - like REV Up Intervention, but also has comprehension with it. Tell them the word after 3 seconds if they are stuck. No pre-reading. This is a screener. To help work out how they are decoding, automatic decoding shows how many words per minute they can read. If not in the green area, you need more information.

Start teaching a few lessons, test before the end of the term, then start in earnest Term 3.

Teaching Next Steps

betterstartapproach - assessment 

All function under student tab

on left - students 

Select students - then bulk actions - assessment rounds

PC1 is green so ready to be done - click on it - takes us to student dashboard

Magic 3 dots on right 

can add task - aim for 3 taumata a year

Assessment - Teachers have the opportunity to look at the assessment in demo mode.

CoP - Communites of Practice coming up and 'drop in' sessions to help teachers if they have questions.