Session 11: Understanding Access and Equity
SESSION OVERVIEW
In this session, participants experience a science lesson as language learners so as to better understand the need to attend to access and equity in their science instruction. Note: this specific lesson can be replaced with any other lesson that provides a hands-on, concrete experience with sufficient scaffolds for participants to make sense of in a language in which they may not be proficient. Participants read, take notes, and discuss the FOSS Access and Equity Chapter to learn more about how to establish a culture of talk that enables participation in sense-making discussions.
In this session, participants engage in a model FOSS® (Full Option Science System) lesson that uses argumentation strategies. (Full Option Science System, Next Generation Edition, developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science; Published and Distributed by Delta Education/School Specialty.) The Energy Module is designed for grade 4.
SESSION OBJECTIVES
| Theme | Goals |
| Argumentation | – Identify the assets and supports that students from vulnerable populations need so as to engage in argumentation. – Learn how to incorporate practices for supporting vulnerable populations of students to engage in science argumentation. |
| Learning and Teaching | – Connect support for emergent multilingual students to strategies currently used to accelerate English language development. |
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