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“When we see 'sharing' as something that both supports and pushes us to be better, the big winner will always be our students."
“When we see 'sharing' as something that both supports and pushes us to be better, the big winner will always be our students."
‒George Couros
‒George Couros
Family Engagement
Family Engagement
MLL & ELL RESOURCES FOR REMOTE LEARNING
MLL & ELL RESOURCES FOR REMOTE LEARNING
Model Instruction with Video
Model Instruction with Video
Screencastify: Create videos for students of yourself modeling instruction or use the Whiteboard feature to illustrate activities.
How to install Screencastify (Video)
How to Set Up Screencastify (Google Slides, from High School for Telecommunications)
Google Meet: Record a video of yourself modeling instruction or using a Whiteboard app such as Explain Everything.
1. An explicit focus on complex, precise, rich and academic language is needed. This involves strategic choice of key vocabulary to teach, strategies for teaching vocabulary, selecting books and modeling the use of complex, precise and wonderful language in both the social and the academic realms.
1. An explicit focus on complex, precise, rich and academic language is needed. This involves strategic choice of key vocabulary to teach, strategies for teaching vocabulary, selecting books and modeling the use of complex, precise and wonderful language in both the social and the academic realms.
2. An emphasis on oral language is an essential element of an effective language and literacy development program. Children must be talking and actively producing language.
2. An emphasis on oral language is an essential element of an effective language and literacy development program. Children must be talking and actively producing language.
3. Language develops most powerfully when it is in the context of building knowledge about something and interacting with the world. Everything that happens in a school day is an opportunity for language development. Language development needs to occur throughout the curriculum.
3. Language develops most powerfully when it is in the context of building knowledge about something and interacting with the world. Everything that happens in a school day is an opportunity for language development. Language development needs to occur throughout the curriculum.
4. English Learners require specific, specially designed instruction, and support in order to access, comprehend and participate effectively in school. Teachers need to differentiate by English proficiency level.
4. English Learners require specific, specially designed instruction, and support in order to access, comprehend and participate effectively in school. Teachers need to differentiate by English proficiency level.
5. Development of the home language in addition to English is critical because it contributes to growth in both English and the child’s home language – and accrues life-long benefits to the child.
5. Development of the home language in addition to English is critical because it contributes to growth in both English and the child’s home language – and accrues life-long benefits to the child.
6. Strong relationships between home and school are a cornerstone of powerful education for English Learner children.
6. Strong relationships between home and school are a cornerstone of powerful education for English Learner children.
Universal Design for Learning with MLLs/ELLs in Mind
Universal Design for Learning with MLLs/ELLs in Mind
Universal Design for Learning is for ALL learners, but here are some ideas for implementation with English Learners.
Universal Design for Learning is for ALL learners, but here are some ideas for implementation with English Learners.
The Gift of Immersive Reader
The Gift of Immersive Reader
This document outlines a few ideas for how to support students with learning and linguistic differences such as students with disabilities, English learners, and developing readers and writers in a virtual teaching and learning environment. Many of the strategies are useful for students with learning and attention issues, and students who cannot yet access complex texts independently.
Browse our free resources are designed to illustrate activities and scaffolds that can be strategically built into lessons and units to deepen and accelerate English learners’ content area learning over time. As laid out in ELSF’s Guidelines, these resources should be employed as part of a comprehensive approach to EL instruction within a cohesive curriculum that progressively builds student content skills and knowledge over the course of a unit or a year, and not in isolation. Filter by subject, grade, guideline, or intended audience.
Using Technology For More Meaningful Student Engagement
Using Technology For More Meaningful Student Engagement
Nearpod
Nearpod
Leverages research-based models (including Marzano, Kinsella, Fenner, CALLA, MALP, and SIOP) to provide access to rigorous academic content with strategies and scaffolds to support student engagement and success.
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