The Teacher’s Guide, which appears on all lessons within a collection, includes ready-made resources that follow a proven instructional framework with effective strategies for teaching multilingual learners before, during, and after viewing instructional videos. One Teacher’s Guide supports all 4-6 videos in the collection, and it's designed for teacher-led lessons that scaffold instruction to reinforce learning across language domains.
The Teacher’s Guide is broken into three parts, each with its own tab: Before, During, and After Viewing. Each part is organized similarly, with resources to help teachers save time and maximize student engagement:
- Strategy Tips: Generic strategies to help teachers, like “activating prior knowledge,” with suggested activities, such as “ask students what they know about the topic.”
- Lesson Details: Customized resources for each collection that can be plugged into each strategy, like background building questions specific to the collection’s content.
- Worksheet: Generic organizers customized to support student learning during each part of the lesson, which can be printed or used digitally.
Sections are expandable and collapsible to help teachers focus on what is most relevant at a given moment. For example, teachers new to Lingolift may want to read each strategy tip carefully before implementing a lesson, but once they have taught several lessons, they may only need to focus on the lesson details.
More information on each part of the Teacher’s Guide is below:
Before Viewing
Focused on building background knowledge, teaching strategies include pre-teaching vocabulary and activating prior knowledge before viewing. These activities are designed to be completed as a whole group. We provide a Words & Meanings worksheet to help students learn key vocabulary words before watching the videos.
The Lesson Details section provides a list of 10-12 vocabulary words for the collection, along with specific questions to ask to activate prior knowledge.
During Viewing
Focused on providing learning supports, teaching strategies include making content accessible and scaffolding instruction during viewing. Students will be working independently with headphones during this part while they watch the videos.
The Lesson Details section provides instructions for how students will complete the Watch, Learn, Speak sequence for the videos in the collection. It also includes some sample useful phrases found in the videos to help cue students to take notes on the Useful Phrases worksheet provided for this part of the lesson.
After Viewing
Focused on deepening learning across language domains, teaching strategies include discussion protocols and responsive writing after viewing. These activities can be completed through a combination of whole group, small group, and independent work.
The Lesson Details section provides comprehension questions and prompts with sentence stems related to the collection’s content, Students can fill these in on the Writing Prompt worksheet and document their answers there.
Standards
All collection teacher’s guides are standards-aligned. We provide alignment for ELL/ELD/WIDA standards and ELA standards on all collections for grades 2-12. For academic collections, there may be additional subject-specific standards (i.e., social studies or science) if relevant based on the content.
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