Next Steps: Project GLAD Implementation Insights

I'm a specialist with 6 classes! How do I manage the prep for GLAD?

general tips Feb 06, 2020

We love collaborating with language specialists during GLAD® trainings!

At the beginning of the week they consult with us on how to focus their energy and where to start.

By the end of the week they teach us new answers to the age old question:

"How do I manage the prep for GLAD® when I have several different classes/groups?!"

The following are ideas we have gleaned from professionals in the field, like you.

1. Start by partnering with a like-minded GLAD® trained teacher.

Push-in to their classroom, or better yet, embark on co-teaching during your times with their students. Find ways to share the load and try new things.

For example, the classroom teacher does an Input chart and the language specialist leads the ELD review with a small group or a word card review with the whole class. Collaborate to find other ways to focus on the language demands of what is going on in the regular classroom through GLAD® strategies.

2. Select only 1 or 2...

Everything is good in moderation...even lamination

general tips Dec 04, 2019

The scent of hot laminate wafting through the workroom is a smell all educators are familiar with! The pile of items to be laminated at the beginning of the school year or when creating a GLAD® unit could rival the Eiffel tower and is somehow synonymous with productivity.

When creating materials for your GLAD® classroom we encourage you to be laminate savvy, not laminate crazy!

Laminate item that will be stored and used again so you only have to create them once:

Observation Charts
Big Books
Narrative Input Chart
Picture File cards

That's pretty much it!

In order to take full advantage of the language functional environment you have created leave everything else as paper charts. This gives you and the students the freedom to interact with the charts on a daily basis. Add information, revise, sketch, highlight, post pictures.

Laminating black line charts, inputs, or chants and then using vis-a-vis or dry erase markers to process is an idea that many...