About a week ago I engaged in my second twitter chat. The
chat I engaged in was #ellchat and it was primarily different teachers chatting
with regards to English language learning students. The topic for this particular chat was how to
get ELL students to think critically. My goal for the chat was to be involved
and try to share my experiences, as well as learn new ways to teach students
how to think critically.
Going into this chat, I thought this would be a great topic
to discuss because it is something that we have gone over in class a lot. Some
of the other teachers and I brought up using Bloom’s Taxanomy to provide questions
that would prompt students to think critically. I thought this was great
because it reinforced something that I had already learned. I do not prompt my
students to think critically much since a lot of what we do regards the psychomotor
domain, but now I know that this is a great resource used by many to generate
higher order thinking.
While in the first chat, I was chatting with people that I
did not know, during this chat, Karina and Lauren happened to be present. It
was a little less intimidating knowing that there were others there that I
knew. I was able to chat briefly with Karina and she mentioned that she used Bloom’s
Taxanomy in her class to get her students thinking. Lauren also provided an insightful
comment saying that probably one of the best ways to get students to think
critically was to just allow them to question and probe them with different
types of questions. I think this is where Bloom’s Taxanomy plays a great role.
Like in my previous chat, the teachers in this chat also
provided us with a lot of different resources. I added these to my diigo so I
can keep them for future reference. I thought one of the best ones was a
website called Colorin Colorado it provided a description on what critical thinking is and provided different activities
that one can use with students.
Another great resource provided by one of the teachers was a
site called ESL Techies on how to use ipdas to teach ELL students.
The site provides other resources such as sites and ideas that are
helpful. I thought this was great because even though we have learned about integrating
technology, it never crossed my mind to incorporate technology to teach ELL
students. Now I realize that it is possible and there are a lot of sites that provide
ideas on how this can be accomplished.
Engaging in a second chat was very insightful. I really like
how everyone collaborates and comes together to talk about topics that they are
very passionate about. I am able to learn and get ideas and resources from professionals
with a lot of experience.
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