Learn some of the basics of working with ELL students in mainstream classrooms.
Heidi Adam
secondary
science
Terry Fritz
secondary
ELL
Natalie Tourtelotte
secondary
social studies
Sharon Cormany
secondary
ELL
How do you make content area lessons more comprehensible and more relevant for your ELLs?
Describe specific classroom management techniques that enhance student participation in the academic language learning process as well as content area learning process.
Describe ways to increase thinking, on-task involvement, meaningful interaction and basic skills development of your ELLs.
Describe how to teach your ELLs to become more strategic learners and processors of new material.
Ms. Terry Fritz (ELL Teacher) and Ms. Heidi Adam (Science Teacher) Ms. Fritz and Ms. Adam co-teach a Science class for lower level ELL students. This is the second year Ms. Fritz has co-taught with Science teachers but the first time teaching with Ms. Adam. They volunteered to co-teach with each other. Ms. Fritz is a very experienced teacher and has been teaching English as a second language for ___ years. Ms. Adam has been teaching for 3 years, and this is her first time co-teaching. Prior to having a Science class made up of ESL students, she had experience working with ESL students in her regular mainstream classes.
The students in the Science and the Social Studies classes are primarily Liberian. All have had limited formal education and many have experienced or witnessed atrocities in Liberia before coming to the US. Liberians typically speak a variety of English that can be difficult for speakers of American English to understand. The teachers feel that class as a whole would have difficulty succeeding in a mainstream classes due to their limited reading level and their lack of background knowledge in the subjects they are studying. The classes consist of a mix of students from all high school grades and ages.
Ms. Sharon Cormany (ELL Teacher) and Ms. Natalie Tourtelotte (Social Studies Teacher) Ms. Cormany and Ms. Tourtelotte co-teach a Social Studies class for lower level ELLs. This is their first time they have co-taught together, and they volunteered to collaborate with each other. Both have taught at the same school for three years and they knew each other before agreeing to co-teach. They decided to create this class to support the development of their ELLs' social studies specific skills, general literacy skills and English language skills.
The students in the Science and the Social Studies classes are primarily Liberian. All have had limited formal education and many have experienced or witnessed atrocities in Liberia before coming to the US. Liberians typically speak a variety of English that can be difficult for speakers of American English to understand. The teachers feel that class as a whole would have difficulty succeeding in a mainstream classes due to their limited reading level and their lack of background knowledge in the subjects they are studying. The classes consist of a mix of students from all high school grades and ages.