witesol - joan wink

WITESOLWisconsin TESOL

Opening KeynoteWe are the Architects of Student

Success: Blueprints from WITESOLMeadowbrook Rm, 9 a.m.-10:15 a.m.

October 15, 2010Country Springs Hotel

Joan Wink, Ph. D.Professor Emerita

California State University, Stanislauswww.JoanWink.com

THE “DUAL ICEBERG”REPRESENTATION

OF BILINGUAL PROFICIENCY

Adapted from Cummins, 1981Retrieved from: www.joanwink.com/scheditems/b-w-iceberg.pdf

Tove’s Water Lily

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Paulo FreireRigor and Joy

Wink, J. (2005, p. 2). Critical pedagogy: Notes from the real world. Boston, MA: Pearson.

Education is radically about love (Wink, 2005, p. 2)

Paulo Freire

A lot! More

Laugh

Have Fun

Strategies

Stories

Images

No one way.

Answers are within and from your colleagues

What is a blueprint?A sketch, design, layout

•A blueprint is not the building.

•It simply provides a way of constructing the building.

One way to build: Scaffolding

What is

scaffolding?

Who are we?We are builders, too.

We are building the future.

No one way to build.

•None of us can do it alone.

•It takes all of us socially construct our future

Lev Vygotsky

The Vygotskian Metaphor for Water

Three Big Ideas from Vygotsky:

•Thought and Language•Sociocultural Context•Zone of Proximal Development

Thought and Language

http://www.joanwink.com/scheditems/tesol-part2.pdf

Sociocultural context

•http://www.joanwink.com/scheditems/tesol-part2.pdf

Wink, J., & Putney, L. (2002, p. 44). A Vision of Vygotsky. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon.

Instruction, after all does notbegin in school.

(Vygotsky, 1986, p. 208)

Student in the center

Zone of Proximal Development

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• What the child can do in cooperation today s/he can do alone tomorrow.

• Therefore, the only good kind of instruction is that which marches ahead of development and leads it.

• (Vygotsky, 1986, p. 188)

Zone of Proximal Development

A Head Taller in

Play

Play mediates the learning of children

In play, children become a head taller than their currents selves.

Vygotsky, 1978

Play Creates a ZPD

A PlantA Builder

An Explorer

Freemans

Nested Pedagogical Orientations

Transformative Multiliteracies Pedagogy

Scaffold Meaning

Extend Language

Activate PriorKnowledge

/Build

BackgroundKnowledge

Affirm Identity

LiteracyEngagement

↨Literacy

Achievement

The literacy engagement framework.Cummins, J. Transformative Multiliteracies Pedagogy: School-based Strategies for Closing theAchievement Gap. (2009, November, in publication with Multiple Voices for Ethnically DiverseExceptional Learners from University of Texas, Austin.)

School-based Language Planning: An Initial Framework

Literacy Attainment↑

Literacy Engagement↑

Scaffold Meaning

Affirm identity

Extend language

↔ ↔↔Activate prior knowledge / Build background knowledge

Scaffoldmeaning

Affirmidentity

Extendlanguage

Activateprior

knowledge

Two Perspectives on Teaching and Learning

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