Today we started by going to Apache and everyone worked with their students on their Chautauqua’s. Just to let everyone know we are supposed to have the students ready for their performances by May 1, on this day they will be video taping their performances. Parents night is supposed to be May 8^th or the 15^th, Francis said she would let us know for sure next week. We then meet at Three Rivers for the remainder of the class. Once there we talked about the book and the section we are reading. We discussed the Five Generic Principles, which are

1. Facilitate learning through joint, productive activity among teachers and students.

2. Develop students’ competence in the language and literacy of instruction throughout all instructional activities.

3. Contextualize teaching and curriculum in the experiences and skills of home and community.

4. Challenge students toward cognitive complexity.

5. Engage students through dialogue, especially in instructional conversation.

We then talked about the section Making and tasting “Amarillos”, which talked about how second language students will learn the English language better if they write and then dictate back to you what they wrote. We then talked about on page 42 under the section “research on Oral Communication” and how we liked were it said “listening is used twice as often as speaking, which is used twice as much as reading and writing”. we liked this quote, because we thought that it is very important to have teachers listen to what their students are saying and not just act like they are listening.