Savannah McDonald EB/EL Classroom Toolkit & Explanation by

TEA TELPAS RESOURCES

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:11:38 UTC

This site can be incredibly helpful for teachers, students, and parents. It shows exactly what each student must strive towards as well as help given.

PRACTICE EXAMS

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:13:52 UTC

Practice exams are extremely important for each category of the TELPAS exams. They provide help for listening, speaking, comprehension, and many other ESL tested subjects.

RIGHTS OF ELLS

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:15:33 UTC

This website is extremely important for teachers, parents, and students to view. It goes over all of the rights of ELLs and EBs and talks about the legislations for these students.

TEA CODE FOR EBS & ELLS

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:17:44 UTC

This guide is very helpful and easy to view for teachers, students, and parents. It gives nothing but factual information about what exactly teachers and students are to follow when going through an ESL program.

ESL PROGRAM RUBRIC

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:20:12 UTC

This rubric shows exactly what teachers should follow when teaching ESL students. It gives an exact program that the TEA recommends for teachers.

BILINGUAL EDUCATION PARENTAL SUPPORT

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:22:20 UTC

This website shows parents many at-home resources and programs that they can use to help their child in learning English.

BEHAVIORAL THEORY (FIRST)

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:24:22 UTC

This shows ways teachers can use operant (behavioral) conditioning in the classroom. This theory can be extremely helpful for younger students.

INNATIST PERSPECTIVE (SECOND)

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:26:11 UTC

This Prezi shows an extremely detailed ides of what the innatist perspective is and how it works with ESLs.

GUIDE TO SYNTAX

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:27:44 UTC

When reading through this website, it showed many great lessons and tactics used to help teach syntax to our English language learning students.

PHONEMIC AWARENESS

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:30:30 UTC

This website discusses the principle of phonemic awareness and gives plenty of strategies for teachers to follow when teaching ELLs and EBs the process of sound in English.

METHODS & APPROCHES

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:32:36 UTC

This chapter of the textbook breaks down each method of ESL teaching. This can be extremely helpful for teachers to break down each method and figure out which works best for them and their students.

TIMELINE

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:34:32 UTC

This site was very insightful to the full timeline of methodology for the English second language eduction topic.

LET THEM TALK

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:37:22 UTC

This small article was found to be incredibly impactful by myself. It stresses the fact that we must encourage our students to speak in their new learned language as well as their first language and feel comfortable doing it.

ENGAGE YOUR STUDENTS

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:39:12 UTC

I loved this article because it discussed focusing on understanding what level of proficiency each student is at. From there, you can focus on oral activities that will be engaging for each student.

WRITING GRAPHIC ORGANIZERS

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:40:55 UTC

I always found graphic organizers helpful when setting up an essay or any small writing. This article dives deeper into why and how these can help our ELLs in their writing proficiency.

READING ROCKETS

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:42:32 UTC

The Reading Rockets organization has hundreds of resources for students and teachers. This organization goes above and beyond to help ELLs proficiency levels sky rocket.

MULTICULTURAL CHILDREN'S BOOKS

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:44:39 UTC

This site has a list of multicultural books for early education classrooms. It is extremely important that each child feels included and represented in our lessons and activities.

ACTIVITIES FOR AN INCLUSIVE CLASSROOM

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:46:31 UTC

This website shows plenty of inclusive activities teachers can have their students participate in. This brings comfortability and familiarity to the classroom.

STRATEGIES

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:47:58 UTC

This website goes over extensive strategies for teachers to teach academic language to ELLs and what students should be reaching in the classroom.

WHAT TEACHERS NEED TO KNOW

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:49:05 UTC

This article goes through what teachers should know when teaching academic language. I loved this article because it gave real-world scenarios and how a teacher should go about the scenario.

PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:54:29 UTC

Problem-solving skills are extremely important when doing math. It involves reading comprehension which is something ELLs tend to struggle with, but this article goes into methods for teachers to follow.

TIPS FOR MATH ACHIEVEMENT

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:55:51 UTC

This site includes videos and strategies for teachers in ELL math achievement. It discusses scaffolding which I think is vital for ELLs

STRATEGIES

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:57:33 UTC

This article includes plenty of strategies and activities to use for ELLs in the science classroom. There is detailed descriptions for the activities and how they are helpful.

CHALLENGING ELLS IN SCIENCE

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-24 23:59:37 UTC

This article discusses ways we can still challenge our ELL students in science while still scaffolding and providing accommodations for the students.

PLACEMENT

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-25 00:01:03 UTC

This is a provided guide for parents and teachers of these students and how to get them placed and tested on proficiency.

IEP

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-25 00:02:20 UTC

This site provides information on IEPS, what they are, how to get one, and how to enforce one. IEPS are extremely important to the education and accommodations of EBs, ELs, and SPED students.

TECH TOOLS

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-25 00:03:56 UTC

This website lists activities involving technology for our English language learners. It is important for our students to be engaged in their learning and technology is extremely helpful for engagement.

AI USE

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-25 00:05:18 UTC

This article discusses how much of a help artificial intelligence can be for English language learning students. I think AI is one of the best ways to support language development because it can do so much.

CONNECTING WITH FAMILIES

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-25 00:06:55 UTC

This article discusses in-depth strategies for teachers to use to connect to their student's families. This is extremely important for our students because encouragement and practice at home can make all the difference.

DOCUMENTATION TRANSLATION

savmmcdonald — 2024-06-25 00:09:13 UTC

A lot of our ELL students have families who do not speak English. Translating important documents as well as papers sent home with students is important so their families can help and be involved in their child's education.