What Is a Multilingual?

At school, we refer to students who speak another language at home as "multilinguals" or "MLs." Their families may speak both English and a native language (or more than one!) at home, or maybe just their native language. These students are screened for English proficiency and can then qualify to get extra support at school from an ESL teacher.

What does An ESL Teacher do?

Our job is to support students who speak and/or understand multiple languages. We believe bilingualism (or multilingualism!) is a huge asset to these students, but sometimes they need a little support to do their very best in school...and that's where I come in.  

At PPE, we do both push-in (staying in the classroom and co-teaching with the classroom teacher), and pull-out (taking small groups out of the room so we can customize instruction).  Some of these groups get "ELD," or "English Language Development" which is a curriculum written specifically to help students develop language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing in English.

We work with grades kindergarten-5th grade.  We love that we can work with students for multiple years and get to see them grow as learners and as people.