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English: µI think they’re Ieeling saIer and more supported’
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Jacobi added the new educa
tional model will also help her stu
dents prepare Ior the new Smarter
Balanced assessments, which
instead oI rote memori]ation asks
her students to take a stand and
back it up with evidence.
tables, while also picking each
other’s brains.
“As an adult, you work
with people in your job,” said
¿Ithgrader 5owan +eard about
why students need to learn how
A work in progress
to work in teams.
Jacobi, )oss and other .
The students might not under
instructors in the
stand the intrica
coalition took a
cies oI the edu
‘Common crash course last
cational models
being tested on
summer in the
Core is
them, but sever
method. They
al agreed on the
other dis
filled with visited
emphasis teach
tricts in the Port
ers are putting vocabulary land metro area
on working in
to see the model
that even in action. Then
groups.
“It’s really
they met in As
your
bene¿cial Ior
toria, to incorpo
the class as a
rate the program
native
whole, as Iar as
into gradelevel
making students
speaker is curriculum while
accountable Ior
meeting Com
not aware mon Core’s re
being articulate,
and sharing their
quirements.
of.’
opinions
and
The Iocus oI
backing it up
the pushin mod
Mona Foss
with evidence,”
el is in the lower
third-grade teacher
Jacobi said. “All
grades, which
students need to
have the most
know how to do that.”
English learners. The district em
Thirdgrade teacher 0ona ploys language specialists like
)oss, another oI the teachers at Bigby at Lewis and Clark and
Lewis and Clark with English Lori +artill at Astor.
learners, said the pushin model
Bigby said English learners
can be adjusted to help any stu oIten come into school with Iair
dent and ¿ts well with the new, ly Àuent conversational skills, but
tougher Common Core State lacking academic vocabulary.
Standards students must reach.
“When they’re in the class
“Common Core is ¿lled with room, they have other, more
vocabulary that even your native pro¿cient speakers around
speaker is not aware oI,” )oss them; they’re hearing that,”
said. “It’s all content vocabulary. Bigby said. “The groupings
We’re trying to unpack that vo should be really heterogeneous
cabulary.”
like that. You should have all
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Posters decorate the classroom walls to provide students with references and help with sentence structure while they write.
academic levels in one group.”
By starting the pushin model
early, teachers are hoping to, over
time, lower the achievement gap
between minorities and the gen
eral student population, both a
district and a board goal.
The goal Ior individual stu
dents is to have them test out oI
being designated English learn
ers. The end result is students
like 2scar Jimene], another
¿Ithgrader in Jacobi’s class who
is almost ready to leave his En
glish learner designation behind.
“I think they’re Ieeling saIer
and more supported,” Bigby said
oI the students. “They want to be
a part oI things, and they want
to show they can do the same
things. I think that’s the biggest
leap Iorward, is that those sup
ports are now in the same class
room.”
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