Journey of Chinese-English Dual Language Learning (DLL) Emergent - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Journey of Chinese-English Dual Language Learning (DLL) Emergent Program Nesanna Lee, Regina Wong & Laura Cheng

Nesanna Lee Site Manager 25 years of experience Regina Assistant Teacher Laura Cheng 30 years of experience Early Childhood Education Coach

Funding sources Quality enhancement 25% budget Foundation State of that covers 70% our basic California needs

Who we are Kai Ming Head Start, San Francisco 8 centers in the inner city 340 children 0-5 85% Chinese-American “Kai Ming” in Chinese means inspiration and enlightenment

Kai Ming Head Start Curriculum Creative curriculum Emergent curriculum as we explored Montessori inspired curriculum Character Education Positive Parenting Program (PPP)

North Beach Center Curriculum Dual Language Learning (DLL) • language acquisition assessment from Univ. of Colorado • initiated by First 5 San Francisco • art /cultural activities from SanFrancisco Asian Art Museum

Kai Ming’s introduction video

Today’s goal Present a 4-year process of DLL emergent curriculum development

Our journey in 3 stages 1.Adopting a Spanish-English curriculum into a Chinese-English environment 2.Emergent curriculum development 3.Enhancing teacher’s cultural competency

Stage 1 Adopting a Spanish-English curriculum into a Chinese-English environment

Implementation of DLL stage 1 Adopting Soy Bilingue focuses on culturally revenant teaching for Latino children

Obstacles of stage 1 Cultural differences Setting up the environment Lack of culturally relevant resources Implementation of the Teacher-based DLL model

Stage 2 Emergent curriculum development

North Beach Center Classrooms 


FULL Day II Classroom

Color coded

Story time in English

Obstacles of stage 2 Staffing changes unsure about the direction to go

Stage 3 Enhancing teacher’s cultural competency

Curriculum Highlights Collaboration with San Francisco Asian Art Museum Literacy Day Black History Month Study Lunar New Year Celebrations DLL parent committee—-Cultural Day Event

Collaboration with Asian Art Museum--Storytelling 


Literacy Day 


Black History Month 


Lunar New Year Celebrations

DLL Parents Committee

Cultural Day Preparation

Cultural Day video 


Lion Dance


 Chinese Poetry 


Chinese Study Group 
 Purpose: build cultural competency Culture and History Study Culture Sharing and Discussion Teacher Reflections Lesson Planning and Curriculum Development

Chinese Characters and Picture Matching Game Hieroglyph Oracle Bone

Examples of Chinese Cultural Symbols in Our Daily Life

Hidden meaning of bamboo health growth success

Tiger-head Shoes ( ��� )

Hidden meanings of Tiger-head Shoes ( ��� ) brave energetic

Chinese Brush Writing 
 (Calligraphy) ����

Benefits of Calligraphy Eye-hand coordination Calm Patient Focus

Resources for Teachers

Program Evaluation

2016-2017 school year parent survey. Overall quality of the program for this center ~~ 100% satisfied and above. North Beach Center

Assessment

Assessment conducted by University of Colorado Linguistic and Language Development Department Longitudinal study on developing Chinese-English assessment tool to assess English receptive vocabulary English expressive vocabulary Chinese receptive vocabulary Chinese expressive vocabulary

R eceptive ! V ocabulary ! Growth ! in ! E nglish 90 80 70 3 ! years ! old ! (S ept ! 16) 60 3.5 ! years ! old ! (S ept ! 16) 4 ! years ! old ! (S ept ! 16) 50 4.5 ! years ! old ! (S ept ! 16) 40 30 Receptive ! V ocabulary ! Growth ! in ! C antonese 90 20 S eptember, ! 2016 November, ! 2016 April, ! 2017 80 3 ! years ! old ! (S ept ! 16) 70 3.5 ! years ! old ! (S ept ! 16) 60 4 ! years ! old ! (S ept ! 16) 4.5 ! years ! old ! (S ept ! 16) 50 40 30 20 S eptember, ! 2016 November, ! 2016 April, ! 2017

E xppressive ! V ocabulary ! Growth ! in ! E nglish 100 90 80 70 3 ! years ! old !! (S ept, ! 16) 3.5 ! years ! old ! (S ept, ! 16) 60 4 ! years ! old ! (S ept, ! 16) 50 4.5 ! years ! old ! (S ept, ! 16) 40 30 E xpressive ! V ocabulary ! Growth ! in ! C antonese 20 S eptember, ! 2016 November, ! 2016 April, ! 2017 100 90 80 3 ! years ! old ! (S ept ! 16) 70 3.5 ! years ! old ! (S ept ! 16 cores 4 ! years ! old ! (S ept ! 16 60 S 4.5 ! years ! old ! (S ept ! 16 50 40 30 20 S eptember, ! 2016 November, ! 2016 April, ! 2017

Looking forward to future development

Closing Activity: Writing Chinese Character ‘Love’

Contact Information Nesanna Lee 1170 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, Ca 94133 415-931-1088 e-mail : nesanna.lee@kaiming.org Thank you!