The concepts from chapter 14 is something I think we do all of the time as educators. We often test student performance and behavior through assessments and if they do not get the desired results, we look at the causes and intervene. We do this with behavior as well as academics. For Curriculum Based Mesurements, there is a rule of three. If student falls below the goal line 3 times in a row, then the intervention must be changed. But if the student is above the goal line 3 times in a row, then a new goal must be set. For interventions, we try to see what "makes the kids tick" and try to teach to their abilities and interests and intelligences. We also try to find motivation for undesired behaviors (i.e. attention, power, etc.) in order to do an appropriate interventions which has to include a replacement behavior. As educators, it is important to look at why sometimes things do not go as well as they should in order to find a proper solution.
I decided to focus on podcasts that focus one learning a foreign language. Since there is a good portion of Spanish-speaking students, I decided to share ones that teach Spanish. Not only students can use podcasts to help them learn Spanish, but I found a couple of podcasts on iTunes that deal with dealing with misbehaviors of students whose language is Spanish. I thought this would be very useful for teachers not familiar with the langauge or a refresher for those who do know some who have had exposure to the language, like myself.
But for some reason this address won't work, but you can look at it iTunes. But learning Spanish can be done with Podcasts. A good I found is "Coffee Break Spanish". The address is
http://www.coffeebreakspanish.com
The reason I chose this topic is that there is a girl in the second grade classroom I work in (I shadow a boy who has EI) who came to school this year not knowing a work in English. The teacher and intern knew no Spanish. There is a bilingual assistant that comes and helps and teachers for partial days of the week, but I have been helping her give directions and work with her as needed in Spanish since I took three years in high school. Notes can be found on www.myspanishconnection.com. But I could not access the website for some reason, but if you go to iTunes and search for learn Spanish in podcasts, then behavior management in Spanish should show up. But podcasts can have all sorts of educational uses like showing social studies videos or foreign language sounds.
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The rule of threes seems like an interesting way to keep track of when changes surrounding a student really should be made. I really wanted to comment on your view of podcasting. I liked the angle you took on this, to look up how to deal with someone that speaks a foreign language. Though I have never done it, I think podcasting would be a great way to learn this. I think it would be a good way to learn a foreign language in general, but specifically learning behavioral management could be fun. With podcasting you can get a visual and audio sense of the language, and learn proper pronunciation even. I'm curious to know if you used the podcasting info directly with your student, or if it just gave you some tools for future use? Did it work well for you?
We do not have any foreign language teaching in our school so I think this would be a great tool to use. I am going to try it with my second graders.
I commented in my blog about how useful podcast could be to introducing students to other cultures. Your post was exactly what I was talking about. I come from the east side of the state and there was not a large Hispanic population. I was very surprised at the number for students that I have come across (since moving to the west side of the state), that speak English as a second language. Finding materials for them is always difficult. The use of podcast could and would make finding help for these students much easier.
Well the little girl ended up moving to the dual language school in Kalamazoo, but I keep the podcasts for future use.
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