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Learning Together, Individually: Nontracking, Differentiated, Inclusive and Personalized ESL Teaching

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Pennsylvania Convention Center, Terrace Ballroom Lobby, Table 34

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Or-Tal Kiriati
Head of Entrepreneurship, English
Shamir High Tel Aviv
@lemino
A Director of R&D and technology in a Tel-Aviv public high school, Or-Tal develops new methodologies incorporating innovation, technology and creativity into teaching. She teaches English as a foreign language to grades 7-9, from special Ed to gifted students. Recently developed a new high school major, social-technological entrepreneurship, which would open September 2023. With a background in journalism, and two startups, Or-Tal founded a couple of Facebook and meetup groups to bring together educators and high tech entrepreneurs. She has been an active figure in the Tel-Aviv tech entrepreneurs and game development communities, and several international educators networks.

Session description

Discover how, in a new public school in Tel-Aviv where classes are crowded, we teach ESL and math with no level grouping or tracking. We embrace a diversity of backgrounds and abilities, use multiple textbooks in one classroom, simple technologies, one optional booster lesson and focus on skills.

Purpose & objective

The purpose of this presentation is to make the no-tracking method known, so that more schools could use it. Tracking, or level-grouping, is controversial for years. But here, with minimal assistance by technology, and some out of the box thinking, we were able to develop and deploy a method that allows us to personalize the teaching in a diversified class, rather than try to place students in a homogeneous class, and teach in a unified way.
Sample lesson plans are included in the presentation, as well as data showing the success in the EFL classes.

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Outline

Description of the background of the school, as well as the limitation in the Israel education system would lead to the story of the development of the no-tracking method. The "how to" shown, lesson plans would be presented and there will be time left for Q&A.
I intend to include video testimonies by students explaining their point of view.

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Supporting research

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10212-019-00446-4
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11y_ejSlJGEqtc0yLVXBIchFvm411Zw46/view?usp=sharing
The Motivation Breakthrough / Richard Lavoie
The course: https://www.edx.org/course/teaching-learning-in-the-diverse-classroom
and many more were used in creating this method.

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Session specifications

Topic:
Universal Design for Learning/differentiated learning
Grade level:
6-12
Skill level:
Beginner
Audience:
Principals/head teachers, Professional developers, Teachers
Attendee devices:
Devices useful
Attendee device specification:
Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows
Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows
Subject area:
ELL, Math
ISTE Standards:
For Educators:
Analyst
  • Use assessment data to guide progress and communicate with students, parents and education stakeholders to build student self-direction.
Facilitator
  • Foster a culture where students take ownership of their learning goals and outcomes in both independent and group settings.
For Students:
Empowered Learner
  • Students use technology to seek feedback that informs and improves their practice and to demonstrate their learning in a variety of ways.

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