TOGETHER WE ARE BETTER

CO-TEACHING ELLS WITHIN THE GENERAL

EDUCATION SETTING

Georgia Branson & Megan Mayfield

Cherokee County Schools

PLANNING

• Email Correspondence

• One week notice for ESOL teacher

• General Education Teacher

• Plans to the state standards and objectives (content objectives)

• ESOL Teacher

• Takes the content objectives and creates language objectives

• Highlight to differentiate from General Education Teacher plans

• Add ELP differentiation for each lesson component & color code for TKES and to show

collaboration

GROUPING

• General Education Students

• Grouped based on pretest/post-test

• Reading Level/ Lexile Level

• ELLs grouped with English Speaking peers

• WIDA Chart

• Type or write names directly on the document

• Provides “Can Do” descriptors for each English Language Proficiency Level

BEFORE THE LESSON

• ESOL Teacher previews Unit vocabulary

• Visual Presentation of Vocabulary

• Access prior knowledge on the topic through group discussion

• Students create picture vocabulary cards with teacher direction

• Picture cards can be referenced throughout the Unit

• Flocabulary and Vidtionary

• General Education Teacher

• Grouping students based on assessment data and reading levels

• Reviewing WIDA chart to aid in planning independent work

WHOLE GROUP INSTRUCTION

• PowerPoint and Interactive Flipcharts

• Introduce content material

• Visual representation of vocabulary

• Charts and diagrams associated with content material

• Turn and Talk to review and use academic vocabulary after each subtopic

• Video Clips

• Hook learners into the content

• Connection to real-world application

• BrainPop

• Mind-Mapping

• Web-based tool to engage students in note-taking

• Use of academic vocabulary in writing

• Formative Assessment

STOP!• Turn and Talk to the people around you and explain how you can use some of these

ideas in your classroom.

• Use the words:

•Content Material

•Academic Vocabulary

•Connections

DIFFERENTIATED CENTERS

• What to Include:

• Hands-on activity

• Science experiments

• Open exploration time

• Academic Vocabulary/Sorting station

• Example: levels and branches of government

• Example: historical figures sort with vocabulary

• Speaking center

• Created a Reader’s Theater performance using economic relationships (consumers/producers)

• Narrated PowerPoints

• ChatterPix

DIFFERENTIATED CENTERS

• Independent Comprehension station

• Differentiated passages based on Lexile level

• Increased support for lower ELP levels

• Listening station

• PebbleGo

• BrainPop

• Group discussions of task card content

• Writing station

• Blogging (Kidblog)

• Commenting on blog posts

• Creating presentations in SWAY and PowerPoint

MAKING THE CLASSROOM EL FRIENDLY

• Managing larger class size

• Pushing in students from other homerooms

• Using centers with a larger group

• Support within the centers

• Language Frames

• Anchor Charts

• Utilizing picture vocabulary cards

• Interactive notebooks

STOP!• Turn and Talk to the people around you and give an example of a center you could

utilize in your classroom.

• Use the words:

• Listening

•Writing

• Speaking

•Reading Comprehension

ASSESSMENT

• Differentiated tests based on ELP levels

• Highlight key words

• Reduce multiple choice answers

• Match vocabulary to picture card (Level 1)

• Open Note Test using interactive Notebook

• Alternate Assessments

• Culminating Tasks

• Technology Presentations

• Student led activities

• STEM activities

Math Morning

Economics Carnival

PARENT PARTICIPATION

• ESOL Open House

• Finding translators

• Flyers in native language

• RSVP for translation placed on invitation

• Translation videos for conferences

• Lo Porto Subscription

• Skype translators

• Google Translate for documents & email

STOP!• Turn and Talk to the people around you and discuss ways to modify student

assessments.

• Use the words:

•Reduce

•Highlight

•Alternate

QUESTIONS