Topic 3- Should English Language Learners Be Placed in a General Classroom or a Special Education Classroom?
A third question plaguing schools with English language learners is whether to place the English language learners in a general classroom or a special education classroom. Several schools place them in the special education classroom when they do not have special needs, thus taking the teacher’s attention away from students that have special needs and require the extra help. Likewise, when English language learners are in a general classroom, they usually have trouble keeping up with the quick pace due to their limited English. Both scenarios are difficult for English language learners and it causes them to lose interest in school. …show more content…
Cori M. More, Tracy Griffin Spies, Joseph John Morgan, and Joshua N. Baker collaborated to write an article on this subject, it was entitled, Incorporating English Language Learner Instruction Within Special Education Teacher Preparation (More, Spies, Morgan, & Baker, 2016). This article also aligns with Calderón, Slavin and Sánchez’s article, Effective Instruction for English Learners about appropriately preparing teachers. While the article Effective Instruction for English Learners reviewed ways to help teachers instruct English language learners in an inclusion classroom, Incorporating English Language Learner Instruction Within Special Education Teacher Preparation reviewed ways to help teachers instruct English language learners in a special education classroom. The basis is the same, teachers need more tools to appropriately instruct this growing demographic. Along with the increased number of English language learners, there is also an increased number of English language learners who are identified as having disabilities, most commonly, reading disabilities. In this article, authors More, Spies, Morgan, and Baker assert the importance of the incorporation of “theoretical frameworks and evidence-based practice for students who are ELL into their teacher preparation programs” (More …show more content…
While this is a valid choice considering most English language learners in the United States are Spanish speaking, it would be important to see researching regarding different languages. Without appropriate research regarding other languages, it does question the effectiveness of the techniques given. Will they only help Spanish speaking students? Will they be as effective with students with a different native language? Can they be used in classrooms where the students speak various languages? More research needs to be done to properly answer these
A third question plaguing schools with English language learners is whether to place the English language learners in a general classroom or a special education classroom. Several schools place them in the special education classroom when they do not have special needs, thus taking the teacher’s attention away from students that have special needs and require the extra help. Likewise, when English language learners are in a general classroom, they usually have trouble keeping up with the quick pace due to their limited English. Both scenarios are difficult for English language learners and it causes them to lose interest in school. …show more content…
Cori M. More, Tracy Griffin Spies, Joseph John Morgan, and Joshua N. Baker collaborated to write an article on this subject, it was entitled, Incorporating English Language Learner Instruction Within Special Education Teacher Preparation (More, Spies, Morgan, & Baker, 2016). This article also aligns with Calderón, Slavin and Sánchez’s article, Effective Instruction for English Learners about appropriately preparing teachers. While the article Effective Instruction for English Learners reviewed ways to help teachers instruct English language learners in an inclusion classroom, Incorporating English Language Learner Instruction Within Special Education Teacher Preparation reviewed ways to help teachers instruct English language learners in a special education classroom. The basis is the same, teachers need more tools to appropriately instruct this growing demographic. Along with the increased number of English language learners, there is also an increased number of English language learners who are identified as having disabilities, most commonly, reading disabilities. In this article, authors More, Spies, Morgan, and Baker assert the importance of the incorporation of “theoretical frameworks and evidence-based practice for students who are ELL into their teacher preparation programs” (More …show more content…
While this is a valid choice considering most English language learners in the United States are Spanish speaking, it would be important to see researching regarding different languages. Without appropriate research regarding other languages, it does question the effectiveness of the techniques given. Will they only help Spanish speaking students? Will they be as effective with students with a different native language? Can they be used in classrooms where the students speak various languages? More research needs to be done to properly answer these