研究 shows that high quality instruction is the most important part of student success. At ICAGeorgia, we define “high quality” as a set of foundational skills called “Back To The Basics.” Back To The Basics is the idea that teachers will inevitably improve student outcomes once they are able to draft standard based learning objectives and opportunities, 解读和领导数据谈判, 高质素评估草案, 组织和促进灵活的小组, 利用技术,最重要的是要有一个增长的心态. We believe that teachers who have these qualities will be able to design curriculum and deliver instruction that will meet individual students’ needs.
These include heterogeneous groupings; pattern language; predictable books; TPR (Total Physical Response) and storytelling; print-rich environments; paired reading strategies; bilingual anchor charts; preview/review; and a choice of literature that is translated in both languages as often as possible. 在创建一个每天的课程计划, 每位老师列出几个学习目标, 以及有区别的课堂活动和作业. These teaching strategies are introduced in the teacher orientation and will continue throughout the school year bi-weekly during “professional development Fridays.”
We carefully implement the above strategies for promoting academic achievement through our Dual Language Immersion program using many years of research. 因此, students’ metalinguistic awareness and higher-order thinking skills, 元认知等, are better developed across languages as students “use what they know in one language as a resource for acquiring and refining their proficiency in the partner language” (Kennedy, Two-Way SIOP: Strategies for Promoting Academic Achievement in Two Languages, 2014).