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Set Up
• Presentation on Screen
• Notes on iPad(s)
• Display Board (with Newcomer Summer School Pics, resources, and student work samples)
• On tables: • Planning Framework (Placements)
• Newcomer Summer School Planner
• ESL/ELD Summer School Documentation Summary
A Guided Planning Session
Session Goals
1. Share the Planning Framework for our Newcomer Summer School
2. Describe our 2018 Newcomer Summer School
3. Considering/Plan for the needs of ELLs in your board
First think, then talk:
In a few words, describe/define an ideal summer school program for English language learners
Evolution: 3 Years of Newcomer Summer School2016: Our New Community
Evolution: 3 Years of Newcomer Summer School
2017: Exploring Identities
Evolution: 3 Years of Newcomer Summer School2018: Here We Grow!
What Emerged: 7 Steps Planning Framework
1. Identify and Prioritize ELL Needs (Goals and Locations)
2. Identify Experiential Learning Opportunities within A Theme and Program Approach
3. Secure Funding Commitments
4. Connect to Community and Board-Specific Supports
5. Hire and Train
6. Secure Learning Resources
7. Report/Share
Identify and Prioritize ELL Needs (Goals and Locations)
• High number of ELLs K-8 from refugee backgrounds
• Many have interrupted schooling and limited literacy skills in L1 (ELD)
• Three schools with 40% of ELD
• Eagle Heights PS
• Northbrae PS
• W Sherwood Fox PS
• Newcomer parents struggling to engage with school and meet family support needs
Who are your ELLs, where are they, and what are their demonstrated needs?Discuss with your table or board colleagues:
• What needs come to mind when thinking of your newcomers/ELLs?
• Are there areas/schools with high numbers of ELLs?
• How can you assess needs in your system?
Identify Experiential Learning Opportunities within Theme and Program Approach
• Students requiring ELD Support learn language and content best through experiences
• Our goal: provide weekly field trips that allow for authentic language learning
• 2018 Theme: Here We Grow!
Newcomer Summer School 2018: Here We Grow!
A theme that:
● Recognizes & affirms the heritage of
students as connected to land
(farmers, food producers, garden
growers, food consumers, traditional
lands, family histories, etc.)
● Serves as a metaphor for their own
progress in their new lives and with
learning in Canada.
Newcomer Summer School2018: Here We Grow!
Experiential Learning Trips:
● Planned to provide language learning in
context and foster a desire to explore
their new communities
● 1 Field trip per site, each week
●Fanshawe Park Conservation Area
●Kusterman's Bluebarry Farm
●Clovermeade Apiaries
●The true star: A Local Working Dairy Farm
An Experiential Language LearningFramework
ExperientialLearning (Trip or
Activity)
Connect to Life
Experience & Build
Vocabulary
Compelling Content for
Oral Engagement, Shared, and Independent
Writing
What learning experiences could you provide for ELLs?Discuss with your table or board colleagues:
• What opportunities exist in your school/board area?
• Could learning opportunities come to your students/schools?
• How could learning opportunities connect to cultural identities of your students?
Secure Funding Commitments
Sources of Funding for TVDSB Newcomer Summer School:
● CODE Summer Learning Funding
● ESL/ELD Budget (Language Grant)
● Environmental Education (for Learning Trips)
● Experiential Learning Fund
● Continuing Education (for Adult ESL Classes at sites)
Connect to Community and Board-Specific Supports
• Newcomer Support Agencies
• Portfolios with Experiential Learning Opportunities
• Adult/Secondary ESL
MRCSSI: Muslim Resource Centre
• A Newcomer Support Agency in
London
• Second Year of partnership in
Summer School
• Asssmbled, trained, and supervised a
FANTASTIC youth mentors team
• Delvered a rotating literacy-based
project:
• 2017 – Student Voice Project
• 2018 – Poetry Live Event/Book
MRC Youth Mentors Team
• Newcomer Youth, Trained and Organized by MRC
• Staff Leader, Yasmin Hussein
2017
• Newcomer Photo Voice
2018
• Identity Poems – Spoken and Written Words
MRC Youth Mentors Team
2017
Newcomer Photo Voice
• Set of TVDSB iPads
• Worked at 3 sites
• Students learned how to compose and take photos that connected to their own lives
• Results were remarkable, moving, telling
“This door is where I started in Grade 6. Before entering this door, I worked for three years in Lebanon doing jobs like moving rocks, in a restaurant, in a water bottle factory...
When I entered this door, I didn’t know any English.”
“This is the door for Grade 8. This is where I will be entering next. Now, I feel that I have learned more English.
I feel more comfortable at school.”
“This picture represents a happy memory for me.
During recess, I play basketball with all my new friends from school. We spent many recesses playing bump.”
MRC Youth Mentors Team
2017
• Identity Poems: Spoken and Written Words
• Used engaging activities to teach students how to use the words they know to tell about themselves
• Students performed for their classmates, parents, and teachers
MRC Youth Mentors Team - Strategies2018
Identity Poetry: Spoken and Written Words
Short poetry using prompts such as:
• MY NAME• My name sounds like...• My name is like.... (something in nature)
• PAINT CHIP• The colour ______ looks like• The colour ______ smells like• The colour _______ feels like
Word Wall
• We placed a group of different words on the wall or floor to inspire writing and poetry, words included:• Hope, Peace, Future, Family, Light, Home, Mother,
Sadness, Laughter, Sunset, Waves etc...
Photo Write
• We printed photos of nature and students would pick their favourite photo and write about it.
• We invited students to take photos outside in the school yard and write a poem
Collective Poem
• Shared prompts with students and they crafted a shared poem. Some prompts included:• I am In the future• I believe Someday• I hope We are
Fatima’s Poem
SWIS London: Settlement Workers in Schools
• SWIS London Partnership
• SWIS Workers placed in each of the
3 Newcomer Summer School sites
• Support for Parents directly at the
children's and adults' classes
Parents: Adult ESL Classes
• Multi-level ESL Classes at the 3
Newcomer Summer School sites
• Coordinated through partnership
with TVDSB Continuing Ed ESL
• SWIS Workers staffed in each of the
3 Newcomer Summer School sites
Adult ESL – Creating the Family Experience
Hire and Train
• Multi-level ESL Classes at the 3 Newcomer Summer School sites
• Coordinated through partnership with TVDSB Continuing Ed ESL
• SWIS Workers staffed in each of the 3 Newcomer Summer School sites
ExperientialLearning
(Trip or Activity)
Connect to Life
Experience& Build
Vocabulary
Compelling Content for
Oral Engagement, Shared, and Independent
Writing
Instructional Strategies
Secure Learning Resources
Report/Share
ESL/ELD Summer School Documentation Summary
Brief documentation of student language learning in the summer
Refer to STEP:OLBs for ESLOLLB for ELD
For help with making anecdotal comments
Anecdotal comments on Oral, Reading, Writing (observed behaviours); avoid
comments about what “they can’t do”
Copies/Originals of writing, pictures of learning activities, etc. would be very
helpful too!
What learning experiences could you provide for ELLs?Discuss with your table or board colleagues:
• What opportunities exist in your school/board area?
• Could learning opportunities come to your students/schools?
• How could learning opportunities connect to cultural identities of your students?