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- Does technology helps us educating our students more effectively or does it harm us?

- Tech is reinforcing our teaching, tech doesn't babysit for us. Do your job!

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There is a very loose program for hiring - most of the time the single criterion is speaking another language.

Often, having functional skills as an aide trumps language ability. Good crowd management / English / self motivation are more effective than language skills

Many teachers are tempted to defer teaching of ESL learners to aide - that is not their role.

Effective teacher / aide relationship requires communication, clear and defined classroom roles and duties, and expectations.  Teacher and aide should be clear on their duties and the duties of the other.

The book creates a wholly unrealistic scenario of how and aide should be trained and how a relationship should be built. The book assumes that time will be allocated for the teacher and the aide to develop a clear and concise understanding of the aides job and role. The book suggests the teacher create a contract for the aide to assign, despite the teacher having no authority to supervise the aide.

The book assumes that the aide and teacher will have time outside of student contact to discuss debrief, when the reality is contrary.

One good suggestion is creating a job description of duties that the teacher would like performed in the classroom setting, and what the expectation is during the beginning of the class, during work time, and during wrap up.

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- Great way to gather resources
- Great way for students to collaborate and work together
- Keeps parents involved in the classroom
- The real-world uses technology, they need to learn those skills now

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- Technology continually changes "no dinero no technology" - Ana
- Availability of technology, including funding for technology
- Too many resources? What is credible? Not Wikipedia....
- MOST technology is not focused on language learning. Lots of work to find resources for language learning

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- Colleague has own website that he posts assignments and reading on for extra support. Can also post helpful links and resources for students/families
- Differentiation for Language support for students on google classroom.
- YouTube videos to front-load information for students or get extra practice at home.
- Newsella

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Example of Collaborative Planning with Elementary Aide

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Example of Collaborative Planning with Elementary Aide

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We would like to see more parental involvement, but we are still trying to assess WHAT it is we want for parent involvement at the secondary level and HOW to achieve it.

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We would like to see a system of reciprocal feedback between the student and the tutor on a regular basis to make sure the partnership is beneficial.

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We like the idea of bringing in advanced students or senior citizens to tutor students.

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This is not realistic for secondary students. It is not recommended by any of us, as recommended in the text.

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I will understand how to utilize available resources in my classroom.

Language Target:
I can speak and write about how to use available resources in my classroom.

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JOBS
Reader- summarizes important information whole for group

Creator- (must have computer) creates and types up the padlet

Presenter- presents the information to the whole class

Facilitator- time and task manager

TO-DO
1. Assign Roles
2. Read pages
3. Pull out important information and how it can be applied to classroom instruction.
3. Using Padlet, determine how you want to present the information
4. Add supplemental images, sketches, files, links, etc that are applicable to your information
5. Present to class

Google Classroom code: ebc

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USING WEBSITES FOR RESEARCH
pgs. 148-150

use for research

promotes critical thinking

use evaluation surveys to analyze sites for accuracy and credibility

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Use Epic for 3rd grade students to research planets for their planets reports. Each student will write a informative writing using the research and information gathered.

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Instantly access over 40,000 of the best books & videos for kids on Epic

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Create a Symbaloo page with the links you want students to use. This will help them to stay focused on the research using credible sites.

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Apps and Websites to Support English Language Learners

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Apps and Websites to Support English Language Learners

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Many of the resources from chapter 7 in the Kottler text are out dated. Here are some current resources to support ELLs:

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Apps and websites to support English Language Learners

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Apps and websites to support English language learners