Remake of EB/EL Classroom Toolkit & Explanation by Blane Simmons

ELPS Chart

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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

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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

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Difference Between ESL/Bilingual

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Being able to differentiate between ESL/Bilingual education will be the first step to providing correct instruction.

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Having direct information from the TEA and knowing requirements when working with students will help to establish instruction.

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Being able to refer to all theories will help when establishing on how to effectively teach students.

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In addition, this video goes deeper into explanations of theories so that I can better understand them.

basimmons04 — 2025-04-28 00:57:58 UTC

This will be helpful to add to a binder on ways to encourage/instruct ELs and make sure that the instruction connects to what I am trying to teach.

basimmons04 — 2025-04-28 00:59:08 UTC

This is a great video when learning how to structure a lesson for ELs so that they can learn and I have a sort of "sentence stem" for my lessons.

basimmons04 — 2025-04-28 01:00:42 UTC

Having a timeline of ESL is great to refer to, so that I can understand how we came to be.

basimmons04 — 2025-04-28 01:02:15 UTC

Having this will help when needing to know all of the history and is a great read for understanding the history behind ESL.

basimmons04 — 2025-04-28 01:03:45 UTC

Having classroom examples of strategies will be extremely helpful to refer to.

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Steps to help development and acknowledging what levels students are at and what to do at those steps will help in the classroom.

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Knowing what students need to accomplish within all aspects of reading and writing will be useful to gauge students progression.

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This gives explicit instruction on how to help ELLs when learning and progressing through the language.

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This explains how JONK, joy of not knowing, helps to create an environment where students are able to be creative with their cultures and more.

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This article goes into the importance of why multilingual classrooms are helpful for students and why we need them. Having this will be great to refer to when arguing why including multiple languages and cultures in the classroom is important.

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This article gives strategies and step-by-step instruction for teaching ELLs academic language.

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This video provides background information and strategies for instruction. This also provides why academic language is important to teach students, both for their success and teacher success.

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This chart provides action words that will be useful when creating language objectives for future classrooms/classes.

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This short article provides examples of content and language objectives as well as the reason why they are important for students to succeed in the classroom.

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Having explicit examples of teaching math and what to focus on when teaching ELs will become useful especially when starting teaching.

basimmons04 — 2025-04-29 21:12:26 UTC

I want to create something similar in my classroom, so having this to refer back to when creating a word wall for ELs will be helpful for me and them to refer to in the classroom.

basimmons04 — 2025-04-29 21:15:57 UTC

Similar to math, this provides explicit instruction and examples for science instruction for ELs.

basimmons04 — 2025-04-29 21:17:28 UTC

Again, similar to Math, having a word wall will be really helpful for EL students to refer to when in the classroom.

basimmons04 — 2025-04-29 21:18:59 UTC

Having strategies for teaching students history so that they are engaged as well as understanding the material.

basimmons04 — 2025-04-29 21:21:53 UTC

If I do teach social studies, I want to do an interactive notebook so students have everything they need and it will be easy to follow! I think interactive notebooks are useful in all cases so having a reminder to do this will be helpful.

basimmons04 — 2025-04-29 21:24:26 UTC

Knowing what is a summative assessment vs a formative assessment is will be helpful and having examples are useful to refer to.

basimmons04 — 2025-04-29 21:25:32 UTC

This gives reasons why summative assessments are important as well as providing examples to use in the classroom.

basimmons04 — 2025-04-29 21:26:31 UTC

I think this would be great to use in the classroom for a quick check on students understanding.

basimmons04 — 2025-04-29 21:27:31 UTC

This video explains the importance of formative assessments and the relation to students success in the classroom.

basimmons04 — 2025-04-29 21:29:27 UTC

Reflex math is technology I used when I was growing up that really helped me with math, and is something I for sure want to use in my future classroom.

basimmons04 — 2025-04-29 21:32:05 UTC

This article helps when regarding how to use technology in the classroom as well as tools and different websites to use for ELs.