Remake of EB/EL Classroom Toolkit & Explanation by Gabi Rodriguez

ELPS Chart

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 19:49:19 UTC

English Language Proficiency Standards - these are important to include in the language objectives when lesson planning and for determining which language domains are begin addressed with the lesson.

PLDs

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 19:49:19 UTC

Proficiency Level Descriptors - these are important to refer to when monitoring the progress of the English learners. They also serve as reminders of what students can do at each level of proficiency within each domain of language.

ELPS Chart

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 19:49:19 UTC

Ways to enhance oral language

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 20:01:09 UTC

This website provides six different ways to enhance English Language Learner's oral language which align closely with the strategies we have gone over this semester.

Supporting Oral Language Development for EB/EL Students

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 20:13:06 UTC

This video provides excellent ways to support oral language development for EB/EL students and provides the stages students go through while learning English. These steps are important for future educators to understand so we can adapt our teaching strategies and developing strategies that preserve these students first language.

Writing Strategies for ELL Students

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 20:16:05 UTC

This website provides insightful strategies for enhancing ELL students writing skills. These strategies are intended for educators as they guide students through the writing process and provides worksheet links.

Strategies for Teaching Reading

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 20:21:53 UTC

I found this website very helpful in providing strategies for teaching reading development as it gave specific scaffolding techniques. "Scaffold story retells" was a great strategy that I can implement in my future classroom.

Strategies for Teaching Academic Language

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 20:25:46 UTC

This article provides information about understanding Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) and their important role in the development of academic language.

Increasing Academic Language

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 20:32:02 UTC

I found this article very helpful as it provides a "what to do" section followed by a "how to do it" which I find useful as an educator because I can use this resource in my lesson plan. There are several topics with instructions on the strategies provided.

Creating Language Objectives

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 20:51:49 UTC

This article provides great examples of effective language objectives and also provides notes on the importance of writing good language objectives that ELL students will understand. The examples provide great objectives for different grade levels and focus on ELL students.

Creating Learning Objectives

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 20:58:47 UTC

This video explains a model that teachers can use to write language objectives. There are two simple structures that use the same three components which are a language function, context, and a language target.

Teaching Math to ESL Students

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 21:01:34 UTC

This video is important because she provided examples of what ESL students may hear when they are read a word problem. She focuses on the importance of vocabulary words and how it relates to math and word problems.

Strategies for Match Achievement

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 21:04:21 UTC

This blog post was helpful as it provides a video and explanation of four practices for ELL math instruction. The practices include scaffolding techniques and examples for each one, which I found helpful in understanding the strategies.

Science Strategies

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 21:16:36 UTC

This article focuses on how the language used in science can be hard for ELL students to comprehend and repeat. Two teachers teamed up to create resources to support students as they grow as both scientists and English speakers.

Tips for Teaching Science to ELL Students

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 21:21:35 UTC

This blog post focuses on how to make science content accessible to ELL students. The tips provide examples of how to help ELL students learn science and resources like links to download worksheets and activities that correspond to the tips.

Preparing Social Studies Lesson

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 21:27:09 UTC

These 12 tips for preparing social studies lesson plans are important because they engage students in history lessons and using their personal background knowledge. I like this post because it focuses on allowing students to use their own unique background knowledge of history.

History Lesson Worksheet

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 21:31:26 UTC

This is an example of a history worksheet/activity that is accessible for ELL students. The worksheet uses simple vocabulary and uses visuals (pictures) for the fill in the blank instruction.

Engaging Multilingual and Multicultural Students in the Classroom

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 21:38:48 UTC

This article primarily focuses on identifying several ways to better support learners across linguistic and cultural differences through the ways we design and enact classroom assessments.

Empowering Multilingual Learners

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 21:40:55 UTC

This article provides seven strategies that embrace a culturally responsive classroom environment that celebrates diversity and fosters a sense of belonging for all learners.

Ways to Advocate for ELL Students

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 21:45:29 UTC

I thought this poster was important because it focuses on how when we advocate we help to provide equity and access to multilingual learners and their families.

Advocating for ELL Students

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 21:48:47 UTC

This blog post provides great examples, tips, and resources on ways to advocate for Multilingual students. It also provides ways that teachers can educate themselves and others in advocating for these students.

Assessment Strategies

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 21:51:41 UTC

This article is important because it defines what a summative assessment is and how to chose what skills should be assessed.

Importance of Summative Assessments

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 21:53:21 UTC

This article explains why summative assessments are important for ESL students and how to record the assessments.

Formative Assessments

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 21:55:38 UTC

By implementing formative assessments for ELLs, educators can develop a “language lens” that uncovers and showcases the growth of this culturally and linguistically diverse population. This is important because ELLs are a diverse group of students with unique assets and varying factors affecting academic performance.

Formative Assessment Using Peardeck

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 21:57:45 UTC

I found this video to be a very helpful resource at it explains step-by-step on how to use the application "Peardeck" for a formative assessment.

TABS

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 22:05:28 UTC

This presentation discusses TABS and provides scenarios to help identify the basic or core attributes associated with the giftedness construct.

TABS Observation Checklist

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 22:07:08 UTC

This document is a classroom observation checklist used to evaluate students. It includes scales to rate students on traits such as motivation, interests, communication skills, problem-solving ability, imagination, humor, and insight.

ELL Students with Special Needs

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 22:11:23 UTC

This video provides a personal experience of how a teacher discovered her ELL student had special needs. Amanda Talton shares her experience collaborating with an ESOL teacher to support an English learner with special needs.

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 22:12:36 UTC

This article discusses how teachers can improve upon identifying special education needs in English language learners.

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 22:14:12 UTC

Different tools to use in future classroom that foster language development

gabriela_rodriguez20 — 2024-12-02 22:15:46 UTC

Technology options to support ELL students in the classroom