LTEL Essential Component:
Student Engagement

Student Engagement

An effective Long Term English Learners classroom needs to address the entrenched non-participation and non-engagement that frequently characterize Long Term English Learners. Fundamentally, students are expected and supported to actively engage in their classes. Teachers use multiple strategies to elicit and support students' engagement in academic discourse and activity, and to build responsibility and accountability. Expectations are explicit. Students take ownership of their own academic learning and what it means to take responsibility in an academic setting. They are accountable for academic responses (e.g., the strategy of "ticket out the door"), and the teacher institutes routines that build student engagement snd provide regular opportunities for public speaking, active listening and academic dialogue. There is a lot of student-to-student interaction. The curriculum is designed and selected to include high-interest high-interest and complex material that draws students into the interaction.