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MSSELL literacy-infused science curriculum and bi-weekly professional learning for sixth-grade treatment teachers

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Description

Project MSSELL (DRL-0822343) provided treatment teachers ongoing bi-weekly, 90-minute, face-to-face professional learning sessions for one year, covering upcoming lessons and ESL strategies in researcher-developed, scripted lessons. Students received "85 minutes of daily literacy-infused science instruction" following a highly-structured curriculum aligned to state and national science and reading standards, embedding expository text features, pre-taught academic vocabulary, pronunciation and decoding, hands-on 5E activities, questioning, scaffolding, cooperative grouping, and technology integration.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Ongoing bi-weekly professional learning sessions taught by research coordinators specializing in science and second language development

Constraints

  • The treatment curriculum replaced the district curriculum; randomization was at the school level and quasi-experimental at the student level in accordance with Texas law

Target Learners

  • Sixth-grade English language learners and economically-challenged students in a large urban district in southeast Texas

Learning Goals

  • Science content knowledge, academic English language, and literacy development

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Irby, B. J., Lara-Alecio, R., Tong, F., Guerrero, C., Sutton-Jones, K. L., & Abdelrahman, N. (2018). Implementation of Research-based ESL Strategies with Lower Grade Middle School ELLs in the Science Classroom: Findings from an Experimental Study. The Electronic Journal for English as a Second Language, 22(1). https://tesl-ej.org/
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title MSSELL literacy-infused science curriculum and bi-weekly professional learning for sixth-grade treatment teachers
description Project MSSELL (DRL-0822343) provided treatment teachers ongoing bi-weekly, 90-minute, face-to-face professional learning sessions for one year, covering upcoming lessons and ESL strategies in researcher-developed, sc...
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