Instruction through the use of priority
content topics, development of language
skills needed in school, and explicit
instruction regarding the use of learning
strategies.
Goal is to learn essential academic
language while promoting self-regulated,
independent learners, with a plethora of
learning strategies at their disposal.
CALLA can be used in ALL
classrooms with ALL students!
Students are taught to value their own prior
knowledge and cultural
background/experiences and to build upon it
to help learn a new language in a new culture.
Teachers model selecting an
using appropriate learning
strategies
Over the course of the year, I have probably taught ten different
division strategies. I have to model selecting an appropriate
strategy on word problems often. For example, drawing a diagram
to represent division is more beneficial than dividing using partial
products on some problems.
Time and opportunity to engage in tasks with different strategies
must be given! Students need to experiment with strategies and
reflect upon their effectiveness.
Siop Model
Based on 8 interrelated components: Lesson
preparation, building background,
comprehensible input, strategies, interaction,
practice/application, lesson delivery,
review/assessment.
Both Siop and Calla share common belief that learning : should be carefully planned, takes place
through interaction, is dependent upon teacher modeling learning strategies, should be scaffolded to
support learner independence, requires opportunities for practice/reflection/clarity.
What should these instructional
methods look like in the
classroom?
Both content and language objectives are posted
Students are in flexible groups that
change often
Objectives are used as a point of reference &
reflection to guide the lesson and help students
gauge their own learning
Content and Language objectives must be clearly stated,
displayed, and reviewed with students.
Age appropriate content
concepts
Emphasizes the effect of motivation
on learning!
Much like the Calla Model, encourages the use of pictures,
manipualtives, experiments, hands-on activities, real
artifacts.
Ideas for content adaptation: highlighted/taped texts, use
of graphic organizers, marginal notes, jigsaw text reading,
text in EB/ELL N.L.
Seeks to link past learning/prior
knowledge to new concepts.
Given task must be
meaningful
Teachers should
encourage language
awareness
Encourages cooperative learning activities.
Hands-on activities are encouraged like: manipulatives, drawing pictures,
conducting experiments, making maps, graphs, timelines, or charts.
Students can also discuss problem solutions, think aloud while solving
problems, share strategies used for a problem, and develop problems for
others to solve.