Is the Pedagogy of Poverty related to ESL?
During our weekly staff meetings, we have been studying the Pedagogy of Poverty and how it effects our teaching. Through these postings, the ESL team would like to show you how P.O.P is related to English Language Learners.
This week, we want to keep it simple: Teacher work load vs. Student work load. Who is carrying the weight of learning and teaching in our classrooms? Is the the teacher or the student? Even in a class full of language learners, the students should be doing most of the hard work. SIOP is a fantastic way to avoid the Pedagogy of Poverty and encourage students to take charge of their learning.
The one SIOP component we would like to point out this week is INTERACTION. Interaction is key to comprehension and learning. It also helps the teacher avoid falling into P.O.P. Interaction encourages all students to discuss the topic or task at hand and work it out for themselves. Let them do all the thinking. Let them work! They are here to learn and want to learn. Giving students time to interact can improve both reading and writing. So for this week, the connection is simple- Let students interact- take the work load off yourself, and push your students to take charge of their own learning.
During our weekly staff meetings, we have been studying the Pedagogy of Poverty and how it effects our teaching. Through these postings, the ESL team would like to show you how P.O.P is related to English Language Learners.
This week, we want to keep it simple: Teacher work load vs. Student work load. Who is carrying the weight of learning and teaching in our classrooms? Is the the teacher or the student? Even in a class full of language learners, the students should be doing most of the hard work. SIOP is a fantastic way to avoid the Pedagogy of Poverty and encourage students to take charge of their learning.
The one SIOP component we would like to point out this week is INTERACTION. Interaction is key to comprehension and learning. It also helps the teacher avoid falling into P.O.P. Interaction encourages all students to discuss the topic or task at hand and work it out for themselves. Let them do all the thinking. Let them work! They are here to learn and want to learn. Giving students time to interact can improve both reading and writing. So for this week, the connection is simple- Let students interact- take the work load off yourself, and push your students to take charge of their own learning.