Contextualized Academic English-Paired Courses and RA

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Sander, Taylor, Narez-Acosta, Shamo

How we met
The story begins.. Associate Professor Nancy Sander, ESL WLAC Dr. Daryl Kinney, Los Angeles City College-3CSN Professor Donna Brinton, USC Rossier School of Education

Concept: Contextualized ESL

West Faculty-Panel
Dr. Alice Taylor-Art History-Humanities Professor Alma Narez-Acosta-Counseling Florence Shamo-student Associate Professor Nancy Sander-ESL

We came together because of curiosity.

Pairings-Why and How

How to contextualize the study of the English language in a systematic approach. (Not random themes) ESL courses use the content from courses like Art 101 and PD 40 Hook-GE units and Transfer units Key component-linguistic and sociolinguistic skills acquisition

Critical Thinking: Analyze art, differentiating fact from opinions, and using visual evidence.

Throughout the course, each of us will pause to identify our individual responses to works of art, and explain them to each other through visual analyses of the art.
Aesthetics: Use multiple modes of inquiry and approaches to experience and engage with the arts. Cultural Diversity: Engage with other cultures in an effort to understand them.

Point out where this painting in the British Museum uses two points of view

You see a frontal point of view in the torso area of the god with the black face or mask. You also see a profile of the face, but the eyes are of a frontal point of view.

ESL is a support for me. Some relief from the task of teaching my students to be students. But also a face-to-face place: to break the barrier between me and my students. to get feedback from another instructor. to find out what my students actually do when they try to work. I get to see my students succeed!

Personal Development 40College Success & ESL 5A Pairing

Professor Alma Narez-Acosta Counseling Division West Los Angeles College

Personal Development 40 College Success

No prerequisites for this course Serves as the content course ESL 5A utilizes topics we cover in PD 40-such as Time management, Study Strategies, Taking Notes, identifying Learning Styles, Reading Techniques, Critical thinking, Memory Techniques and much more. 3 unit UC/CSU Transferrable Course

Personal Development 40 College Success

PD 40 is part of General Education pattern /Plan A at WLAC; CSU General Education Pattern; and is a major preparation course for the A.A. Degree in Liberal Arts with an emphasis in Behavioral and Social Sciences We have been doing this partnership for a few years now; every year we have an opportunity to improve our pairings.

Benefits for students

Students have an opportunity to connect with Student Services- specifically the Counseling Division- it allows us to introduce them to the variety Student Services programs to support them to succeed Students are introduced to College Success Strategies to help them in all their classes and ultimately complete their educational goals They are taking a degree applicable course and transferrable course that can help them complete their educational objective

Benefits for me
Directly work with Language Arts Division I have learned new teaching techniques to improve my content delivery to better assist our students succeed; such as Reading Apprenticeship I am able to work more closely with my students I have a support network; I am able to learn from my colleagues

Measurable Skills
Reading-Through public routines RA Synthesizing- Public collaboration
Discussions in class Discussions on line

Writing-Discussions online
Paragraph to essay writing in context

Critical Thinking-Conceptual demonstration Online discussion in Art 101

RA in action: Talking to the Text

Florence Shamo

Reading Apprenticeship
Public collaboration of reading skills Film: Talking to the Text in ESL 6A classroom Dr. Monika Hogan, 3CSN, Pasadena City College Deborah Harrington, Dean for Student Success, Executive Director of 3CSN at LACCD, BSILI, FTLA

Led to FIG

Faculty Inquiry Group-RA

We have over 10 members Math, English, Counseling, Humanities, Computer Science, ESL, Learning Skills, Anthropology Faculty are taking the 6 week online course We are meeting once a month We have received a grant from the West Los Angeles College Foundation for $15,000 for continued training!

Panel-West Los Angeles College

Associate Professor Nancy A. Sander, ESL sandern@wlac.edu 310-287-4584 Dr. Alice Taylor, Humanities taylora@wlac.edu Professor Alma Narez-Acosta, Counseling narezaa@wlac.edu Mrs. Florence Shamo, Student