planting seeds for a diverse community let’s be ready! sheryl ferguson, esol teacher britt...
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Planting Seeds For a Diverse Community
Let’s Be Ready! Sheryl Ferguson, ESOL Teacher Britt Elementary, Gwinnett County
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As we become more diverse, we can choose for our diverse population to become a burden or we can choose to help them become an asset.
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When you get your ELL students:
–Learn to pronounce their names.
-Learn about their backgrounds…Why are they here … for a better life, for a job, business transfer or promotion, for life?
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When you get your ELL students …
–Pay attention to social and cultural customs.
–Use the same language … “We are going to the playground.” OR “We are going outside.”
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When you get your ELL students…
–Assign a willing friend and helper.
-Choose small groups rather than large groups.
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Remember how language develops!
• First – Listening
• Second – Speaking
• Third – Reading
• Fourth – Writing
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Where are your students?
• Level 1 - quiet, minimal comprehension … listening!
• These students can:– listen, draw, point, copy, act,
match, circle, color!
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Where are your students?
• Level 2 - Increased comprehension, 1-2 word sentences
• These students can:
-name, list, label, group, tell, say,
respond, answer!
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Where are your students?
• Level 3 - Increased comprehension, simple sentences, errors in speech
• These students can:
-recall, retell, describe, summarize, role-play, compare, contrast!
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Where are your students?
• Level 4 – good comprehension, more complex sentences, complex errors in speech, engages in conversation.
• These students can: -analyze, create, evaluate, justify, support, debate!
…They’re ready for transition!
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Teaching ELL students is simply good teaching!
• Tell me and I will forget.
• Show me and I will remember.
• Involve me and I will understand!
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Find your students and meet them where they are.
• All cultures do not think, believe, or learn in the same way.
• Home cultures may not have prepared students for interacting in their school community.
•Financial difficulties may interfere with home/school involvement.
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“Children construct their own understanding of the world.”
• It is the teacher’s job to create appropriate learning contexts so students can construct, and take responsibility for, their own understanding of concepts.
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Teachers must be willing to …
• Think flexibly.
•Explicitly connect school learning to children’s own life experiences.
•Differentiate between cognitive skills and social and cultural context in which the academic skills are set.
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ELL students ARE at risk!
• “The challenge for teachers is to accommodate these students’ needs in classrooms where, in the end, all students must learn to work confidently, productively, and successfully.”
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What are your students’ learning modalities?
• Visual
• Auditory
• Kinesthetic
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Students learn best in classrooms that are student centered, with the teacher in the role of the facilitator! You don’t always have to be the teacher!
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Make learning meaningful!
Story Retelling
Rich Illustrations or Photos Hands-On
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Make learning meaningful!
Create!
Sing! Dance! Role Play! Totally Physical!
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Teachers must …
Model Academic Language! Think Aloud!
Scaffold Lessons! Introduce Key Vocabulary!
Love Your Children!
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NEP Parent Communication
Photographs tell a story in all languages!
Save your students work in a portfolio!
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Planting Seeds For a Diverse Community.
Accept our diversity!
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Planting Seeds For a Diverse Community.
Celebrate our differences!
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Planting Seeds For a Diverse Community.
These students did not chose to learn a second language. Plant their seeds so they may become an asset to our school,to our community … to our country!
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Now go and plant your seeds for our future!