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Speaking to your students level while maintaining professionalism I believe is important in building strong relationships

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Speaking to your students level while maintaining professionalism I believe is important in building strong relationships

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Using respectful, inclusive, positive language. Being clear and expressing belief in their ability to be successful. Students setting their own norms for group participation and seeing this modeled by other groups.

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Using respectful, inclusive, positive language. Being clear and expressing belief in their ability to be successful. Students setting their own norms for group participation and seeing this modeled by other groups.

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How does lang. impact student success in your classroom?

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How does lang. impact student success in your classroom?

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Language is the foundation for understanding content specific topics (ex., science). When a student struggles with basic language skills it greatly impacts their ability to learn academic language and content.

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When the teacher deems language as inappropriate, they can be disciplined to where they are removed from the classroom and not able to access the class content.

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Students sometimes struggle with switching to more formal language in their writing. I see a lot of slang and ignored formal grammar rules in their writing.

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Clear, concise, thoughtful language helps students understand and feel safe.

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Clear, concise, thoughtful language helps students understand and feel safe.

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Science is extremely heavy in academic vocabulary. The language of science is key to students understanding of concepts and processes we learn together. The learning of the vocabulary has to be scaffolded heavily for all learners.

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Domain-specific vocabulary needs to be considered and explicitly taught in Social Studies.  Students need academic sentence frames for discussions and writing. Academic discourse can be taught and practiced throughout discussions allowing students to practice specific, academic ways of speaking.

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Verbal participation helps students practice/reinforce learned skills in my class.

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Verbal participation helps students practice/reinforce learned skills in my class.

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*Providing supports to allow ALL students to engage in this practice/reinforcement is critical.

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Math is extremely heavy in vocab that students don't regularly use. This is difficult for ELL Students.

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Math is extremely heavy in vocab that students don't regularly use. This is difficult for ELL Students.

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Speaking to students so they feel like they are respected and challenged is important - never talk down to your students.

Using language that is accessible to my students is important. This could include using pictures, gestures...to help my students understand my meaning. Language is not just speaking words.

Give students the chance to experiment and learn academic language. It is a different language to them and must be learned.

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If information is not communicated in multiple ways, relying on spoken language for all communication can lead to misunderstandings and misinterpretations. Language processing issues can limit understanding, as well as confusions within languages (multiple meaning words, for example) can hinder understanding. 

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If information is not communicated in multiple ways, relying on spoken language for all communication can lead to misunderstandings and misinterpretations. Language processing issues can limit understanding, as well as confusions within languages (multiple meaning words, for example) can hinder understanding. 

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When students don't know the language--even just specific words or vocabulary here and there-- there are massive holes which can have very negative effects on students' success and motivation.

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Teaching academic language helps students incorporate their understanding with new vocabulary.

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so much "hidden" language demand in math

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so much "hidden" language demand in math

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What language/words do we assume are "universal"

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What language/words do we assume are "universal"

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Having fun with students in the way you speak with them is important. This is helpful when building relationships.

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It's important to use academic vocabulary and give students access to definitions to build understanding

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If the language that I am using as an educator is not understood by my students I am failing them and learning is not taking place.

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Using common language between classes is important to add to the understanding of lessons.

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Each subject has it's own language and it can be "foreign" to all, especially those who may already be focusing on English. 

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Each subject has it's own language and it can be "foreign" to all, especially those who may already be focusing on English. 

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Sometimes students have difficulty code switching from casual language and texting slang to more formal/academic language

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Sometimes students have difficulty code switching from casual language and texting slang to more formal/academic language

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language = greater access to everything within the learning environment - must be intentional component of instruction 

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language = greater access to everything within the learning environment - must be intentional component of instruction 

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For many students, the language of not just the class material, but also the objectives or instructions, are the first input for self-efficacy.

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Language is very important for expressing academic understanding and learning

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When we identify, teach/post/explain/show the meaning of key vocab, ALL students and especially English language learners benefit.

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Science vocabulary can be very difficult. It is important for me to introduce vocabulary words and give students a chance to draw a picture, write it in a sentence, and think about examples and non-examples throughout the unit.

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Understanding content specific vocabulary is really important for student success in science and understanding the overall concept. This tends to be difficult for ELD students.

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It (language) can make or break them.  Your tone, energy, body language, and attention truly can build or destroy a relationship.  Showing grace and assuming positive intentions whenever engaged in conversation with a student is a good quality to keep in the forefront of your mind.

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It (language) can make or break them.  Your tone, energy, body language, and attention truly can build or destroy a relationship.  Showing grace and assuming positive intentions whenever engaged in conversation with a student is a good quality to keep in the forefront of your mind.