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MALP

Presentation about MALP to help support ELL students and SLIFE.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

MALP

MUTUALLY ADAPTIVE LEARNING PARADIGM
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SLIFE

STUDENTS WITH LIMITED OR INTERRUPTED FORMAL EDUCATION
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ELL students who have gaps in their formal education

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SLIFE CHARACTERISTICS

  • Individualism vs Collectivism
  • Pragmatic knowledge vs Academic knowledge
  • Literacy has low priority
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INDIVIDUALISM

  • Personal goals
  • Individual efforts
  • Achievements and accomplishments
  • Independent work
  • Individual accountability and group work
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COLLECTIVISM

  • Prioritize family over a single person
  • More value in helping the group than personal achievement
  • Part of a network or larger group
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ACADEMIC Knowledge

  • Based on logic or hypothetical
  • Focused on abstract
  • Relevant for the future
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PRAGMATIC Knowledge

  • Based on experiences passed down through generations
  • Concerned with immediate relevance
  • Focused on the concrete
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LITERACY

  • Some students grow up where reading does not affect their lives
  • In the US reading is everywhere: signs, directions, newspapers, books

MALP LESSON

  • Accept Conditions for Learning
  • Combine Processes for Learning
  • Focus on New Activities for Learning

1. ACCEPT CONDITIONS FOR LEARNING

  • I am making this lesson immediately relevant to students
  • I am helping students develop and maintain interconnectedness
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2. COMBINE PROCESSES FOR LEARNING

  • I am incorporating both shared responsibility and individual accountability
  • I am scaffolding the written word through oral interaction
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3. FOCUS ON NEW ACTIVITIES FOR LEARNING

  • I am focusing on tasks requiring academic ways of thinking
  • I am making these tasks accessible with familiar language and content

ACADEMIC WAYS OF THINKING

  • Compare and contrast
  • Classify or organize
  • Sequence
  • Cause and effect
  • Narration

PROJECT BASED LEARNING

  • Topic is high interest
  • Students have shared and individual responsibility
  • Produce an authentic product: poster, prototype, newsletter
  • Evaluate and reflect for the next project

PBL STEPS

SURVEYS

  • Choose topic
  • Create questions
  • Conduct survey
  • Analyze data
  • Draw conclusions
  • Report on survey
  • Disseminate results
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RECAP:
> Make learning relevant.
> Combine collaboration and independence.
> Teach the academic process.

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Plan of Implementation