um so today we're going to be talking about echo pro which is our fsl program we have echo
pro levels one two and three um and i'll talk about all the different levels and
uh what they correspond to in the different provinces as far as grades are concerned
so the first thing to let you know is these this list here these are the guiding principles upon which a gopro
was developed so you can see certainly the program is action oriented and literacy based
we have a whole lot of strategies embedded in the program in fact um you know that's one of the strongest
foundations of this program is the focus on strategies there's a whole lot of
cooperative learning that goes on in in the lessons and in the activities um
the assessment and differentiation are at the forefront of of the work that
our authors have done and certainly there's a an
emphasis on cultural awareness and intercultural understanding so i do want to let you
know now that we've sort of seen that list and have a bit of an understanding of what the program is based on
this is also these are also the uh guiding principles for the cefr
uh the common european framework of reference so um quite on purpose our authors have
written this program to really match up and coordinate with the cefr
so the program echopro one two and three it comes in three levels now here in
ontario levels one two and three correspond to grades four five and six
but in other provinces alberta bc it would correspond to different levels of five six seven maybe
even six seven eight possibly depending on your students um i think what you would can i
interrupt you for one second i apologize kelly yes um but for bc we do have correlations
up on our website for what grades it does correspond to and yes it does go even up to grade nine
um five six seven eight so it goes to eight so um you can
get those correlations to your curriculum on our website and for alberta
it is the same as ontario it's um four five six that's great thank you for
that detail thank you sorry about that no i'm glad you jumped in please anytime barbara
that's wonderful so um the program itself is based around these student modules
there are five student modules at every level so what you see here
these five covers that i'm showing you are from level one but of course there's five
more modules in level two and five more again in level three so the student modules are available in
print or in digital format for your students you can choose either one and then we also sell what we
call the professional bundle so this is the teacher package so this
professional bundle includes a print version of the program overview and the program overview is
the pedagogy and background and foundation of the program it's how to teach you know french as a second
language using eco pro the professional bundle also includes
five print teacher guides so obviously they correspond with each of the student modules you do get one copy of
each of these five student modules in print and then you also get what we call digital teacher access which means you
get a login name and password that allows you to log in to our online component and i'll be showing you the
online component the online component is a combination of the student modules
with teacher guide material embedded right in it so it's everything you need in one
account one login um following today's um session you will be receiving an
email from our uh sales and marketing department that will give you actual purchasing prices
and purchasing options the different ways that you can buy we weren't going to get into pricing too
much today together because we want to spend the time actually showing you the resource itself
so this chart here is taken from the ontario fsl curriculum document and this shows the evidence of
all the things that can be clearly found embedded in the teaching notes so at the center
of it all is the student and at this point at this level the goal here is to start thinking
about creating a student that's interested in lifelong language learning so you have to start them
on the road on the path and this is a great place to start so all of these things authentic oral
communication an emphasis on the four strands listening reading writing and speaking
um the development of the language learning strategies the strategies are super important in this program
um the interconnectedness of language and culture uh the emphasis on critical and creative
thinking goal setting and reflection you're going to find that um sort of self self reflection and self
assessment comes up quite regularly throughout the modules and of course connections with the real world
so here in blue on the top left is a quote taken again from the ontario
curriculum document and it stresses the importance of teaching strategies
in fsl and evidence of the strong strategy focus in eco pro
is shown on this slide we've taken some examples from our student books from the
student modules and we've put them here on the slide these are actual pages from the student material
that really shows you um the the use of strategies production strategies
uh so these are for when students are uh doing their you know their oral
presentations and things like that or when they're communicating um comprehension strategies
metacognitive strategies of course we mentioned that a minute ago and cooperative strategies
working together jacob so this chart shows how clearly embedded
the cefr framework is integrated into eco pro sorry um so on the left here you
can see again these are the the foundations the guiding principles of the cefr
and on the right you can see how they align with the guiding principles of a gopro so action oriented
um focus on language the text that provide a focus for language learning and in our program we do have a variety
of texts we have graphic text audio text multimedia electronic
print you name it all types of varieties so this really does show you the
interconnectedness so just have a few more slides to get through and i do want to spend just a
minute or two talking about assessment so in the curriculum there is a
metacognition expectation or outcome for each of the four learning strands
so here i did i just pulled we pulled these out of the teacher guide these are little
assessment as learning blurbs that would be shown in your teaching notes so
here students are expected to identify the strategies that they used or that they found helpful
and to set goals for future learning so here you can see we also give
suggestions on which line masters which assessment masters you would use
in the different tasks so here we're saying use fisht values
and then we have assessment for learning so these are some examples again taken
from the teacher guy from the teaching notes some examples of reminders for
opportunities to do assessment for learning so learning checks are reminders to circulate
and monitor how well the students are performing and we provide suggestions on how to adjust the lesson to provide
either additional support for students or uh provide information on how to how to give extra
challenge to students so all of these are examples of
assessment for learning reminders that are in your teaching notes
and then of course assessment of learning so here's an example of some of the reminders um
and again just as a reminder um we do tell you which assessment tool to
use um and sometimes there's more than one that's suggested so for you can see here for assessment of
learning assess and evaluate the extent to which students can transcribe
personal details onto a visual text so we're saying that you could use fish develop
a so it depends on what you're doing with
the class and how your students are doing okay so we're going to leave the slides at this
point and we're going to i'm going to jump over to the website
and i'm all logged in and ready to go i'll just take this moment to check in with barbara are there any questions
that i should be showing or responding to at this point in the chat not not at this point thanks kelly we're
up to date in the chat awesome thanks good okay so for today's
demo or this evening's demo i'm going to be using eco pro 2 level 2 um but you should know
that all the levels are set up in the same way um they use the same platform we call
this the pearson etext platform if you're familiar with it in any of our other programs
um so just very quickly what we've done is we've taken the student modules let me open
the menu here the table of contents on the left now you can see a listing of
all of the content that we've included in this ebook e-text
so your five modules are listed here module so you can see all five student modules
are included and i'm just going to scroll down through the table of contents and show you what else is included so we also have these um
literacy titles booklets these are reading story books these are not student
modules um it's literally a story in a book that you can share with your students they're
meant for obviously reading independent reading or uh together with your class
so there are four of them and we provide you two versions of every one so we
provide you the regular version so here's the pasta and then we provide you the
wordless version son text is also included so you can see two versions of libre
and libre do la femi special libretto
[Music] is a magazine echo mag so every level has a magazine as well
and then again we're just continuing here in the table of contents we have the guide
can i mention one thing at this point just because it makes sense i just want to mention though with what kelly's talking about with ali ray
it's actually part of our our echo series which is echo literacy and it is available in print
and those um do come in like big bags of a big plastic bag with uh the readers
right in it um and so um those can be purchased in print but
if you're and you don't also have to purchase them at all so they can be standalones if you don't have them and
don't care to have them that is fine for the program you but having what
um kelly is showing you now gives you the entire eco pro program with the added benefit of
had having those literacy techs in a digital format
sorry about that great thanks barbara thank you yep so they're included digitally here
the getting started guide that's a folder that contains some help
documents and some how to navigate documents and then most importantly the coin de la
senia folder and the multimedia folder are here at the bottom so let me just start there
i'm going to open these up i'll open up queen de la senya so here is your teacher's
corner so this is where we've embedded the teacher material your lesson plans the program overview
so let's start with the lesson plans i'll just we call them teaching notes here i'll
just open it it's a pdf document that contains teach your teacher guide your your
teaching notes for all of the modules and the literacy titles so
let's open the first one and have a quick look and see how the teacher guide is organized so this is
module one lagondav until the samuel and uh we're not going to read through
this of course we're not going to look at every lesson but we're just going to scroll through and have a quick look so at the
beginning there's a module overview so a big picture view of how this
module is going to go um generally uh all the lessons we give you
the outcomes and assessment plan for each of the lessons and activities
and i'm just going to get past oh a bit of information here every uh module is terminated with the
students by doing an action-oriented performance task so that's your uh end of module
project i guess you could call it for the students so there's a bit of information up front here about that and
how to set your students up from the get-go and let's just jump right down now to an
actual teaching lesson plan sorry i'm trying not to scroll too
quickly because i know that's sometimes disorienting so
here we go lessons one two and three here at the beginning we'll be using student book pages two
and three so you'll be spending three lessons using student book pages two and three so we
give you the learning goal and the focus of each of the lessons shown here in this chart
and then the actual lesson plan itself now as i show you these lesson plans you're going to look at that and say and
you'll you'll notice that really we provide you step by step including the script of
what to say in order to get through these lessons so we really do
spell it out for you now of course we know that teachers are professionals and
there's a really strong chance that you're going to look at this and say okay well i'm going to make this my own
i'm going to read this and then i'm going to do bits and pieces of it and i'm going to adapt it
for my situation and i'm going to skip this because i like to do that uh at another time and i'm you know
you're going to make it your own the idea here is maybe the first year that you're teaching
using this program you might rely on these teaching notes in a in a heavier way and you will do it word for
word potentially but otherwise in your second and third and fourth year you'll be like
yeah i'm gonna change this up and of course that's a good thing that's never a bad thing
um so very quickly i do want to show you um each of the each of the lessons are
divided into what we call the four-part uh gradual release of responsibility
model now i don't know if you're already using that model in your teaching practice for fsl but in
there's information about it in the program overview but in a nutshell it starts with
modeling we we use the m to indicate modeling so that's where all the responsibility is with the teacher so
the teacher is modeling for the students the language and the activity expectation and then it moves
the next step is shared practice so now the responsibility is being
shared between teachers and teacher and students and together you're sharing the practice
the next step in the four part is the guided practice so that's where now the
responsibility is moving towards the students and the students are doing the work
the practic the language but with the teacher there as a guide and for support and help
and then finally can i interact it this time yeah in a second sorry um you're mentioning before
that um there's suggestions on how long um some of the lessons will take etc and
there's a comment that has come in in the chat but i just wanted to um bring out
uh for everybody to hear um because um the comment is around um with times
like net right now with the um with covet and the pandemic some
of the timelines yes they might be a little bit different than what we are suggesting they may take a little bit
longer they may there might be more figuring out of how something can actually work in your class given
the situation or you might be in a situation where you're digital and in person
and you might have to work things out a little bit different so i wouldn't worry too much about how long
things actually say um because you're gonna have to use some of
that um flexibility around your lessons oh absolutely that's it
yeah sorry i'm going and also going along with that um um some things say working in
partners as well in the guide that i know is going to be a huge challenge for a lot of people and some
things may or may not be able to be done in groups as we might be suggesting in that guide
there might be other ways of figuring out how to do things in groups whether it's doing
similar to like a zoom within your class or doing it on um
like google hangouts or there might be just other ways of trying to get that
partnership and collaboration to happen it's just going to take some time in figuring that out yeah absolutely
as i've said before these programs were written a few years ago now before covid bc um
clearly our author team had no even inkling that something like this was going to happen in our schools
and in our world and so uh yeah you will notice that when you have a look at
these lesson plans that yeah cooperative learning working in partners working in groups
moving around the classroom getting up going to different corners of the class all of that really can't be done
right now or it needs to be done with accommodations so uh don't look for actual
help within these lesson plans because they were written a few years ago now so yeah it's just to that point kelly i
was also and you can talk further about it but i was also going to just make the point that um you mentioned that there's five
modules um for each level and um you're not going to get through all of
it so if things do take longer then they take longer and you have choice if you don't
want to do certain things and you do um but if you want to talk about that more i just want to say you're not going to get through
absolutely every single thing absolutely yeah this uh the idea here is
if you if you teach two modules out of the five you will cover the expectations uh in
the curriculum so don't think that you're going to get through or that you need to get through
all five modules we provide you these modules as some variety and some choice for you
but you don't need to get through all five of them two is enough for covering the expectations
okay so that is the teaching that's a quick look at the teaching notes
we do i just i'll stop here for a quick minute and i just because i happen to be on a page that i can see there is a listening
activity i can see this icon here that represents an audio file so this
lesson comes with a listening activity and we provide you with the script right
here in your teaching notes so uh if you need to or want to copy
this and and project it or send it out to students who need extra
support with their listening the script is here for you so let's
leave these teacher notes now and go back to the student modules and uh just as a
reminder all of this your line masters as well your line masters are here
are all found in the teacher's corner actually before i leave this teacher's corner i will open up the line masters
these are your worksheets for students so um you have the option of opening
them up in word format which allows you to modify them of course you can type and
make some changes into the word format and then you just save it to your own computer
or if you scroll down a little bit you can decide to instead open them in the pdf format
which means it's not modifiable you're going to use it exactly as we've presented it and again
you save it to your computer you send this out to your students you can send it through google classroom
or through email or however else you're sending files to students so these
fish these worksheets are shareable with your students okay
back to the e-text so let's have a quick look now at the actual student modules in a digital format
so in this format it's pretty straightforward for turning the pages you simply use the arrow keys here on
the left and the right to go forward and backward and as i scroll through the pages you can
have a look at some of the content you do have an option to change the presentation a bit if you go up here
under your settings and switch it over to two-page view so what that does now is it brings up
the left and the right page together the spread so now this exactly mimics what is
happening in your print books so if you're in a classroom situation where you're projecting this
up on a screen and your students might have some print books on their desks then their pages look exactly the same
as your pages that you're presenting if you're not in a classroom and you're doing this
virtually then of course you can share these pages with your students by doing a screen
share so in a live uh classroom situation
live meaning what we're doing now like in a video class but unfortunately you have no way
of sharing these pages to students outside of your class unless you purchase online access for
your students so if you purchase only the teacher access
then you can only show this to your students during class if you purchase digital student access
licenses then they can log in on their own at home or in the library or wherever on
the bus and they can log in and see this content as well
otherwise with your teacher access you can just do screen sharing
so on these pages we've embedded some content we've embedded some what we call media so here we are on the
first pages two and three and i can see here on the left we have a listening activity we have a
an audio icon so let me just have a quick play of this one
separate different
okay so this is an activity a listening activity now this is one of the strands which is listening
and you would you would have distributed er so worksheet number one and the
students would be listening and looking at their worksheet and checking off the right checkboxes
according to whether it's the same or different so this is one example of the type of
media that we've embedded on these pages as a listening activity
let me just scroll through a few pages here we just have a few more things to show you
we also have another type of audio file on these pages you can see here
uh there's more there are more audio icons and this is this represent a read aloud of the text so all of this
text on these pages we've recorded them and we've put them here in the audio player
questions
so this is really built-in support for students there's reading and listening and if students are
struggling with the reading then of course they can listen along as well so wherever you see these icons on the
pages that's a represented that those represent the read aloud of the text and then we
have one more type of odd of multimedia i'm just going to use the menu here to scroll down and jump
to this page here in fete alecal
and show you that we have video embedded in these modules as well
so this uh this page we're on page 1617 so that's quite a few lessons in to the
module this is a video type um lesson um content so let me just play it
now it was acting up for me earlier and it looks like it's acting up again my internet is not let's see if it'll
play oh yeah here we go okay
[Music]
okay so i'll just pause it there we're not going to watch the whole video but you know these are five minute videos
give it roughly your teacher guide will tell you exactly how to present and how to do this lesson um these
videos were written by our author team and of course they were filmed in canadian classrooms
with canadian teachers and students so all of that goes into the making of these resources
so that's just a really quick overview of some of the content that we've embedded in these pages
oh here now sorry i was just about to end but i realized oh let me explain this page
so where where we have graphic stories we also include a wordless version so
here we've landed on a wordless version of a graphic story and the next page has the original
version with the words so as a teacher if you want to use this wordless version maybe you want to do a
predicting activity maybe you want to do an activity where let's write our own speech bubbles
now you can't type or do anything on these pages but you can project them and use them as
inspiration um and class discussion and stuff um but quite frankly you could also just
not use them at all the original print modules don't have the wordless versions they just have
the word versions of these stories so you might decide let's just stick right to the story
and skip those wordless pages um so there you go that's that's the e-text
in a nutshell um i've shown you really the bulk of it which is the listening activities
the read-aloud of the text the teaching notes and the line masters
and the video that come with uh that come with every module your multimedia can also in
addition to being found using these icons on the pages you can also find all the multimedia
in the multimedia folder which is in your table of contents so i was just going to
mention that um kelly um can you also show that the salt where the songs are
oh sorry yep yep so every module also has a song um now i'm going to admit i'm not even
sure what page the song is on in this module do you happen to know barbara in eco pro i don't but you can even just
do the same by going to the left now i will that's exactly what i'll do yeah because i'm not sure which page
unfortunately mine oh i can't open the multimedia because my
my zoom menu is covering it up oh isn't this terrible uh let's see if i can move my zoom so oh
there i can move it never mind okay we're in business we're in business so uh in the multimedia folder we have
the listening activities the song and the video and the song here let me uh this there's songs for modules
two three and five at this level so there is no song in module one we were looking at
module one that's why i didn't know where it was so let me just
you can play it from here
[Music] so we won't listen to it all but that's an example of of how uh you can find one first of all
in the multimedia folder or you can go to the actual page in the
book where the song is presented
so if anyone has questions at this point i might finish the sort of formal part of the presentation i'm happy to
turn on people's microphones here if anybody wants to speak you can open up your own
microphone let me just click on everyone's name uh you're more than welcome to continue
using the chat if you like or you can just um
turn on your microphone and ask any questions that's the way also if you would like to see something
again that maybe we went over quickly um kelly's happy to go back and show you where something is if
if you want to see how to find something um so the floor is now open you'll just
have to um unmute yourself and then you are able to speak to it
okay so linda i see that you've got your hand up so you can open your own microphone if you'd like
um by hovering down towards the bottom and get the zoom there you go okay
thanks um so i noticed that you have the pages where they're like the book you were
saying so last week when i was doing this with um my kids in my blended class they weren't
lined up so is that fixed for all the levels now or yeah that's a great question linda so
in echopro 1 we are planning and but i'm keeping my fingers crossed
to have that fixed for friday oh okay yeah we've been told that the engineers
who build these for us um they've found a fix and they're going to promote the fix on friday
the problem doesn't happen in eco 2 and that's what i'm showing you so the pages are working fine in echo pro 2
but unfortunately in echo pro 1 you're right they they're mismatched okay the other problem somebody else
asked asked in the chat and i have answered it individually but since there are a number of vehicle pro
users um i will mention it because it's another issue that we are having which is with the audio
boxes that you cannot move them yeah um that was we'll be able to move them that fit
that fit should also happen either tomorrow or early next week um oh sorry tomorrow i keep thinking
that today's thursday my apologies so either by friday or early next week those audio boxes you should be able to
move out of your way and where you need them based on the text yeah and in the end if if it's not fixed
on friday i don't mean to sound uh like i don't trust our engineering group but um honestly we've tried a few fixes
already and so we'll see what happens but if it's not fixed by friday do know that
we are continuing to work on it we're not going to leave it um broken i guess we can say so we are
continuing thank you yeah
and your questions i don't see any in the chat but feel free to unmute yourself and ask your question
um i had a question um about the the topics um so are there specific
uh themes that are talked about or uh addressed in each of the different
levels yeah yes this is amanda i'm assuming i'm just looking at
the microphones the list here um yes absolutely so um probably the best thing i could do if
if this interests you is i can um set you up with a um short term login
a 60 day account where you can log in and actually look at the topics and see
if it's what you're looking for yeah so in alberta we have uh specific subjects that we're supposed
to cover for each of the grade levels so grade four is like the classroom
and grade five is first yeah grade five is family and then grade six is more like um food and things like that
right so yeah i i would need to know which level addresses the themes that we're supposed
to cover before deciding yeah absolutely i know that's a so amanda let me
put um okay i think you're seeing the word document that i had up earlier i'm just going to type my
oh actually silly me oh so sorry i don't know why i didn't
think of that uh let's keep talking you can keep talking i'm gonna put your i'll put it in
okay and i'm also gonna put it here in the uh so um just so everybody knows my role
here at pearson is to support teachers who are using digital
so please feel free to reach out to me anytime if you have questions either before you purchase or after
you've purchased and you might need some help so this is my job so i'm happy to help
and i'm happy to set anybody up with a short term login if you want to give this a test
drive and have a look at the content that's the best way to decide whether it's going to be suitable
is to try it out so please send me an email and i will happily set you up
i've also added my email into the chat if anyone wants to contact me um i'm barbara melodick and i'm the
marketing manager uh for fsl in canada k to 12. that's great kelly would they be
willing to do that for the student access as well i've only just started teaching at
what they're calling blended class here in bc in surrey anyway um they had a different teacher before
christmas and i've um they switched our schedules around so i've now taken over this grade 567
blended class yeah so um i put a package together of the books to
to send home with the kids but only two of them have picked them up out of 18. oh boy so yeah
and that's kind of the challenge with these kids who aren't choosing to be at home their parents have chosen um
is the engagement piece so because when we when i introduced this to them two weeks
ago um i was flipping through and of course the picture the little text or the audio
box was right in the middle yeah yeah the dictionary that we were trying to go over and i was like okay
well um but i i wondered if like having access to that because i
already wrote down to talk to lily about if this district would even provide that um
do a trial digital student license for the kids for like i don't know so that's not
something we actually do um and the reason is because we have the student licenses are for one year
and they're eleven dollars um our our our trials are like we can do
a 60-day trial but um it's really only eleven dollars per student which is a very
big difference for when you're looking at the uh teacher um uh
professional bundle which is 550 so that's how we make that 60 day available so
that you can try it out and you're purchasing it not for one year you're purchasing it based on
you know five years and plus down the road um so we really don't for the students do
anything like that um they're so affordable to begin with that yeah you do want to just give it a try
with a few students um you could just buy a few licenses for 11
each well i have 18 kids in one class like it's a it's one class of grade five
six sevens yeah okay eighteen kids in the class that siri already has
a coupo level one so i have access to all the digital stuff for the teacher stuff
i just thought you know if i can't get these kids picking up books from the school then at least um
when i'm not because i only i only see them once a week then i could actually you know have them
be working on it when they're not with me yeah so
um shoot me an email linda and we'll talk about it and i'll and barbara as well um we're in a tough
situation here because the students you've purchased books for them um
it sounds like you have anyway so yeah let's take that offline if it's
possible and we'll discuss it separately i just want to make sure that there's other questions here that we can get to them
um and then we can talk with you about about what if there's anything we can do okay thank
you the the other thing that i wanted to mention is that we do have on our sites and documents
now i think you're in a very special case uh linda but um i i think we do have
some documents if you are teaching split classes in your case where you're teaching three split classes it
i i don't know if it will really help too much um but we do have documents of how to
teach for two grades and actually um i do want to just
address linda if you're still uh listening if you're still on the line here um the the audio player that opens up right in
the middle of the screen i do want to just quickly show you that you can i'm you've probably figured this out
already but if i let me just get here okay so you can see how the audio player
is blocking potential text that needs to be read so you can
if you zoom in by using the zoom um here on the pages
you can now scroll the page so the audio player doesn't move oh okay we're working on fixing that of
course but the page itself can move so it's it's a it's not great but it's better than
nothing okay and it's helpful in the meantime to know that you can still get it out of the way even though it's
clunky yeah yeah for sure okay thank you
okay so any other questions
oh i just see um amanda you have to leave early oh thank you very much for joining us
okay so let's how about we leave it there i don't see anybody else opening up their microphones to speak so
um you do have my email address and you have barbara's email address now in the chat so if you need to reach out to us
please do anytime and thank you so much for joining tonight giving up your very
precious time uh good luck with the teaching we know it's not ideal at the moment
we're just uh everybody's just barely hanging on we know us too um so good luck
and thank you that's it can i mention just one last thing oh yeah but just to finish up but i just
wanted to remind um for anyone who isn't currently using it and for anyone who still is you will be
getting um an email from our sales department um by the end of the week and you will have
in there either links to correlations or price lists and more information so if you are
planning to purchase or need more information regardless you'll get that and if you still have more questions
even after that email always feel free to contact kelly or myself
excellent have a good night everybody bye bye thanks for joining us