CONT 940 1.3 Policies and Procedures by Amanda MacCaskell
Type in the name of the novel and movie you are going to compare and contrast.
Example: Great Expectations.
References
What are BICS and CALP? (2019, May 10). Colorín Colorado. Retrieved August 12, 2022, from https://www.colorincolorado.org/faq/what-are-bics-and-calp
Elise, R. C. T. (2008). Managing Diverse Classrooms: How to Build on Students’ Cultural Strengths. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.
British Columbia Ministry of Education. (2018, January). English Language Learning: Policy and Guidelines. British Columbia.
Subtopic
Challenges, surprises, possible changes to Government policy & guidelines:
Restate your thesis while avoiding repetition.
3 Possible additions to Government Policies
Refugees and SLIFE's (students with limited or interrupted formal education) are considered a totally different category of ELL and have access to extra supports and resources throughout entire schooling
Data and assessments are inputted into MyEd for teachers to access right away in September (like a digital ELL report card with student writing, reading level and comprehension level work samples)
2 Suprises
Restate the differences between the book and the movie.
Ministry of Education "monitors student performance and reports the results to the public" (17). Where is this information reported? Does the public have the BICS and CALP learning processes and different stages of language acquisition explained to them, to understand ELL performance?
“Research from Collier and Thomas (1995) has shown that it may take children with no prior instruction or no support in native language development at least seven years to develop CALP.” What are BICS and CALP? (2019, May 10). Colorín Colorado. Retrieved August 12, 2022, from https://www.colorincolorado.org/faq/what-are-bics-and-calp
Assessment of student first language suggested as a possibility in the BC Guidelines. Resources are not available for this
1 Challenges
Restate the similarities between the novel and the movie, but try to avoid repetition (this will help if you write an essay afterward).
Translators, technology (text to voice, or voice to voice translators for instance), available to families with another L1 at any time to remove barriers to communicating with the school and staff and maintain family dignity.
Effective access to trauma counsellors for Refugee students and SLIFE's
Effective Special needs and ELL programming in Elementary (consistent across all environments) alongside government funding for students with special needs who don't have a formal diagnosis, or are in the process of accessing services at Sunnyhill, Children's Hospital etc.
How Principles connect to what I already know & what is/is not working well at my previous school:
Use point-by-point organization in the body section to present the characteristics briefly stated in the thesis.
This means that if you use this draft to write a compare and contrast paper, each characteristic will be introduced in a separate paragraph.
Stretches for the school: That ELL CALP (Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency) development does not necessarily match BICS (Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills) and represent student culture in daily learning
How can we show more respect and value towards individuals' first language and culture?
Collaboration with peers & cooperative learning opportunities to practice CALP in lower risk situations, graphic organizers to support academic language development across curriculum
What is working well: Differentiation - Know your learners, family communities
Capitalize on L1 and differentiate instruction and lessons to integrate all ELL's
Care ABOUT students, their SEL and academic success & families (WITS program, Family Friday Reading, school wide digital assemblies, Facebook page, Secret Reader, multi-cultural texts in library)
Key connection to what I know
Families and parent involvement are key (6)
How is the movie different from the novel?
Type in a short explanation. Use 'like', 'same as' or 'similar' for comparison, and 'unlike', 'differ from' and 'although' for contrasting.
Connect to student backgrounds to build competent and confident young people, in order to become functioning and economically independent members of society
How is the novel different from the movie?
Type in the answer. Use 'like', 'same as' or 'similar' for comparison, and 'unlike', 'differ from' and 'although' for contrasting.
Policy and Guidelines in my setting
The introduction provides background information for both the book and the movie.
Support refugee families and students along with other ELLs both immigrant and Canadian born
Create a thesis statement in which you briefly compare and contrast the book and the movie.
School Level
Communication between school team, family and student
Access resources and advocate for students
District
Have specialized staff available (ELL specialists, Settlement workers, critical care counsellors)
Allocate funding
Which are the differences between the book and the movie?
Think of at least 3 differences. Type them in.
Examples regarding Great Expectations
- the movie plot leaves aside certain characters;
- the book is mostly narrated, while the movie story is told through dialogue;
- the movie has a different ending.
Board of Education
Funding given, Policies and Guidelines given
Which are the similarities between the book and the movie?
Type them in. Example: Great Expectations the book and the movie have very similar plots.
"Orientation to societies and cultures of BC" (4).
Celebrate Indigenous Culture through literature, story, professional development, and whole school art enrichment activities
Type in the name of the main character.
This has to be the same for both the book and the movie.
Celebrate holidays like Halloween, Diwali, and other cultural identities
Parameters for services and flexibility of delivery (4).
Meet needs of students and follow their needs, based on assessment and observations, with 5 year government funding in mind, DEFINITELY keep accurate and current data collection
Teachers need to be connecting, checking in and reviewing student progress
