Presentation Title:
Visible Thinking Routines for Multilingual Learners in STEM
Presentation Options: Onsite
Presentation Strand: STEM/STEAM
Presentation Delivery Language: English
Description:
Visible thinking routines are designed to engage students in authentic learning in STEM. Explore how thinking moves motivate Multilingual learners to engage in science and engineering practices and make sense of ideas they need to explain how or why the phenomenon occurs. Gather new ideas that integrate communication modes for multilingual learners in the STEM classroom.
Abstract:
Harvard’s Graduate School of Education Project Zero’s Thinking Routines were developed to deepen students’ thinking and to help make that thinking “visible.” Learning Outcomes 1. Participants will learn visible thinking routines that deepen and reveal multilingual learners’ thinking in STEM content classes. They will walk away with a brief sequence of steps used to scaffold and support student thinking using L1 and L2. 2. Participants will learn how to help ML students notice and name particular “thinking moves”, making those moves more available and useful to them in other contexts. They will walk away with techniques that encourage learners’ agency and active participation in STEM classes. 3. Participants will connect with tips that enable ML students to communicate with peers using a multimodal approach in STEM lessons.
Audience Engagement Part 1. Participants will explore waves by tapping a candy wave model in 4 areas in the room. Participants will tap one part of the model to make waves. The presenters will model several visible thinking routines, explain the purpose, application, and launch of the routine. After each hands-on experience with the wave model, participants will reflect on how to differentiate scaffolds for various proficiency levels. Guidance will be given on how translanguaging can be embedded within the visible thinking routines to explore phenomena. Part 2. Participants will discuss how to foster a learning community in which ML students are valued and how these visible thinking routines position students as confident, collaborative, and creative problem solvers in the STEM classroom.
Presentation Types: Workshop-80m
Target Audience: PreK - 12
Primary Presenter's Telephone: 7023088760
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