https://padlet.com/amanda_kiefer_28/g5v0lme532li Based on: ELL Voices in the Classroom en-us 2017-08-09 02:40:04 UTC 2017-08-09 02:57:35 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Folder.png amanda_kiefer_28 https://padlet.com/amanda_kiefer_28/g5v0lme532li/wish/180438858 - Helping ELL students is the responsibility of the whole school, not only the classroom teacher. 
-ELL students need a good language environment to develop oral language skills.
-ELL students need to be immersed in an academic environment that is age appropriate.
-At the beginning of the year facilitating an interactive language survey is a great way for teachers to se e the diversity in the classroom and allows students to begin to engage in conversation.

]]> 2017-08-09 02:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/amanda_kiefer_28/g5v0lme532li/wish/180438858 amanda_kiefer_28 https://padlet.com/amanda_kiefer_28/g5v0lme532li/wish/180439149 - Always leave room for the child's first language as this is where they feel comfortable. 
-Respect the silent period, ELL students may go through a time when they remain very quiet and only respond in very short quiet phrases. 
-Maximize group learning, include a great deal of co-operative learning in the classroom, however directly teach to whole class what issues could arise during this and how to solve them as a group, also actively change group dynamics.
- It is very important to activate prior knowledge, this way new tasks and concepts do not seem to overwhelming. ]]> 2017-08-09 02:47:15 UTC https://padlet.com/amanda_kiefer_28/g5v0lme532li/wish/180439149 amanda_kiefer_28 https://padlet.com/amanda_kiefer_28/g5v0lme532li/wish/180439530 -Teacher's should model appropriate volume when speaking and rules of engagement. 
-As teachers we need to ensure that we are being patient and allow ELL students time to think and pause before we jump to help them respond. 
-Teacher's need to ensue that they themselves are speaking naturally and slowly. 
- In addition using gestues to support what is being said and using simple vocabulary and sentences.
- Provide constant feedback, correcting student errors and model correct forms however doing this in a private setting for example in a conference. ]]> 2017-08-09 02:51:57 UTC https://padlet.com/amanda_kiefer_28/g5v0lme532li/wish/180439530 amanda_kiefer_28 https://padlet.com/amanda_kiefer_28/g5v0lme532li/wish/180439697 I found this article to be very informative and to provide a lot of practical strategies that can be used in the classroom. However I found myself thinking that all of the things they suggested doing were in relation to students that had been exposed to a classroom enivronment. I am still confused on how you would first address a student who is ELL and is initally joinung your class. ]]> 2017-08-09 02:54:21 UTC https://padlet.com/amanda_kiefer_28/g5v0lme532li/wish/180439697