Why is culturally relevant pedagogy so important for teachers to implement in their classrooms?

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Suggestopedia

*what is it? 

*how will it help your students learn?

Here is a Suggestopedia method activity you can use in your classroom!

         The Lexical Approach

       *** What is it?

        *** How can you implement                   it?

Learning with idioms!

*activity designed by Estrella Farias

Competency-Based   Language Teaching

Main Idea: Richards and Rodgers propose learners will learn with the language/measures student learning rather than time

*Relates to learner's needs

*The LEARNER can judge whether the competencies seem useful

*Specific and public competencies can be taught

*The learner can master one at a time

*Focuses on LIFE SKILLS

Competency Based Language Teaching Activity:

Cognates Bingo:

In this lesson we are teaching English to Spanish speaking students, Using cognates in English, Using visuals and the words in Spanish** Games can be altered to any language according to the students in your class*

*Activity Designed by Estrella Farias

What is "Text Based Instruction", you asked? Sure, I will tell you all about it! 

Mom: I was looking into some of the methods you use in your classroom, tell me more about "Text Based Instruction."

Text-based instruction method is providing students with guided practice as they develop language skills for meaningful communication through whole texts. There are two levels of learning with Text Based Instruction method. The first level is mastering many types of texts and understanding. The second level is learning the content through texts. 

The text-based instruction approach is a method of teaching (2nd language) or a foreign languages described by Michael Lewis in the early 1990s. The basic concept on of the Text-Based, this approach  is the idea that is important part of learning a language consists of being able to understand and produce lexical phrases as chunks. Students are taught to be able to perceive patterns of grammar as well as have meaningful set uses of words at their disposal when they are taught in this way. The Text-Based approach is teaching language which involves, Teaching explicitly about the structures and grammatical features of spoken and written texts. Designing units of work which focus on developing skills in relation to whole texts.

Example Activity:

In class, we will talk about comparing and contrasting two animals. The class will be able to pick any two animals they would like. The students will then find articles, books, magazines, or any text about those animals. They will create a venn diagram comparing and contrasting. Students will then write a reflection about their findings then we will discuss the different text the students used to find their informational text.

Mother of student: Tell me more about multiplies intelligences. I have heard such great things about this method and want to know how you use this in your daily lesson plans for ELL's students.