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LANGUAGE: Challenges and Teaching Strategies for ELL Students

LANGUAGE: Challenges and Teaching Strategies for ELL Students. Stephanie Paradis. Agenda. Read Aloud Language: What It Means to You? Presentation Group Activity How can we meet the academic needs of ELL students? Wrap-Up Questions/Comments Reflection. Meet Monica Thao!!!. Read Aloud

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LANGUAGE: Challenges and Teaching Strategies for ELL Students

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  1. LANGUAGE:Challenges and Teaching Strategies for ELL Students Stephanie Paradis

  2. Agenda • Read Aloud • Language: What It Means to You? • Presentation • Group Activity • How can we meet the academic needs of ELL students? • Wrap-Up • Questions/Comments • Reflection

  3. Meet Monica Thao!!! • Read Aloud “I Am Proud to Be Bilingual”

  4. Think, Pair, Share • THINK about what “your” language, languages, dialect, language variations mean to you. What does it say about you? • PAIR off with a partner to discuss your thoughts. • SHARE your findings with the class.

  5. Challenges for ELL Students • Mastering a new language • Learning content- area material • Social acceptance among peers • Adjusting to a new culture without having to give up their own

  6. What This Means for Teachers * Giving Students the Best Experience Possible * • Resist “Americanizing” ELL students • Educate Yourself • Ask questions but avoid generalizing • Model language learning • Visit language classrooms • Look beyond culture Teaching Tolerance: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. (n.d.) Giving your students the best experience possible. Retrieved from http://www.tolerance.org/supplement/giving-your-students-best-experience-possible

  7. Additional Challenges for ELLs • English language learners receive lower grades • Judged by their teachers to have lower academic abilities • Score below their classmates on standardized tests of reading and math

  8. What This Means For Teachers • “Teachers and administrators must draw from a range of research-based strategies, pedagogy, and instruction to support English language learners in building language proficiency.” Focus on Effectiveness: Current Education Challenges. (2005). English language learners. Retrieved from http://www.netc.org/focus/challenges/ell.php

  9. Implementation • Develop reading skills • Work from strengths • Connect with students’ families and cultures • Use engaging instruction • Vary assessment strategies Focus on Effectiveness: Current Education Challenges. (2005). English language learners. Retrieved from http://www.netc.org/focus/challenges/ell.php

  10. Group Activity • 4 Members per Group • Remember to build off of each other’s strengths and incorporate your own experiences with language!!!

  11. Your Task… (10 mins.) • What are ways you can meet the needs of ELL students and enable success through… • Daily Classroom Assignments (in any content area) • Assessments (in any content area) • Standardized Tests/MCAS Preparation (ELA and Math)

  12. Daily Classroom Assignments • Assign a buddy • Repeat directions and check for understanding • Teach key words along with visual aides • Read and reread aloud • Utilize available resources • Technology (computers, calculators)

  13. Assessments • Varied, such as including hands-on activities and experiments • Provide directions in their own language or orally and allow use of a translation dictionary • Avoid the use of jargon or unnecessary complex sentence construction • Extended amount of time with frequent breaks

  14. Standardized Tests/MCAS • Give language learners many opportunities to read and write in meaningful contexts • Practice communicating complex ideas • Integrate technology to support writing instruction and motivate students to use written language to communicate • Direct instruction on how to use calculators, dictionaries, thesauruses • Help students recognize patterns and learn test-taking skills

  15. To Conclude… • Reflection • How can “your” language benefit your teaching?

  16. References Focus on Effectiveness: Current Education Challenges. (2005). English language learners. Retrieved from http://www.netc.org/focus/challenges/ell.php Shore, K. (2005). Success for ESL students. Scholastic. Retrieved from http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/ article.jsp?id=4336 Teaching Tolerance: A Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. (n.d.) Giving your students the best experience possible. Retrieved from http://www.tolerance.org/ supplement/giving-your-students-best-experience-possible

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