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Senate Bill 560 - Emergent Bilingual Strategic Plan

catherinedbriers — 2023-11-28 21:45:46 UTC

The Bill outlines the plan for how the state of Texas wants each school district to carry out bilingual education. It is important to have this resource in this tool kit because there are strategies as to how professional development and bilingual education should be carried out through each role in a school, specifically at the administrative and teacher levels. It is also important to have this resource here as a reminder as to how bilingual education is a direct relationship to the growth in graduation rates for the bilingual education in the state of Texas. It is a strong reminder as to how teachers can influence an emerging bilingual into continuing their education, and therefore keeps a teacher persevering through hard times during their career.

Bilingual Education Act

catherinedbriers — 2023-11-28 22:00:09 UTC

Starting on Page 34, Congress outlines the special educational needs for the Emerging Bilingual and English Language Learning population. Here, they also outline the funding for the national program and the requirements for each aspect of each local program. It is important to have this resource here because it outlines the recognition for the special population at a national level. It also helps teachers realize that this is a recognition across the nation, not just in their classroom or school.

"All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."

catherinedbriers — 2023-11-28 22:10:03 UTC

I think that this would be an important poster to have in a classroom, especially one filled with many emerging bilingual students. It shows that all students in the classroom are saying the same thing in their own language. I think it would be important for them to create their own reflection on what the quote means to them in order for them to grow in their empathy with their classmates.

Empathy Lesson Plan

catherinedbriers — 2023-11-28 22:15:16 UTC

This lesson plan outline provides teachers a resource for explicit instruction on teaching students empathy, which is one of the hardest qualities for people to learn. When implementing this lesson early in a student's academic career, it allows the students to have the most amount of time to grow in empathy for their classmates. This resource will serve students past a classroom full with emerging bilinguals and shape them into people who will enhance all aspects of the world.

Grammar Lessons for ESL Students

catherinedbriers — 2023-11-28 22:17:59 UTC

Grammar is one of the elements within the sentence structure of English in order to have effective communication. Grammar is more than punctuation. Grammar allows you to convey both precise and accurate language in communication. You can have the same words in one sentence, but grammar can be one of the elements that change the entire meaning of the sentence. When you have grammar as fundamental knowledge, you are able to communicate better to people of all language levels.

Build a Sentence

catherinedbriers — 2023-11-28 22:22:36 UTC

In order to have effective communication, coherent sentences are more than vital. Coherent, simple sentences allow for people of all language levels to have understanding within a conversation. This graphic provides a visual representation of sentence structure in order to have clear understanding sentences for effective communication.

catherinedbriers — 2023-11-28 22:24:27 UTC

This graphic differentiates between the two bilingual and ESL programs for emerging bilinguals in Conroe ISD. This would be important for a teacher to have as an on-hand resource to have for parents who have struggling, emerging bilingual children in their class. Teachers need to advocate for their students and their specific needs in order for them to have the most impact in their education.

Dual Language Success Criteria

catherinedbriers — 2023-12-03 05:13:01 UTC

This document provides teachers success criteria for emerging bilinguals students to not only meet, but also exceed. In my opinion, teachers should use this criteria and provide documentation that justifies a teacher's claim on a student's language proficiency based on the criteria.

Supporting Immigrant Students and Families

catherinedbriers — 2023-12-03 05:19:33 UTC

This resource provides teachers explicit ways that teachers can support immigrant families. It is important for teachers to utilize this resource because immigrant families and emergent bilingual families need help past what teachers might see as the minimum.

Engaging Families of English Learners

catherinedbriers — 2023-12-03 05:26:23 UTC

This document is a resource for teachers that outline the barriers when it comes to engaging families of English Language Learners. I think it would be important to have this resource on hand because it even though it does outline the barriers, it will also allow teachers to think of how they can combat the barriers they are seeing in their classroom.