Culture in the Classroom
• What techniques did Diane use to help her ELL students learn English more quickly?
Created a flash card system that helped the Korean students to speak and read English more quickly, and to recognize the English language sounds. She wrote the Korean letters representing the English sounds. It also helped with their intonation.
• How might you replicate some of her strategies in your classroom? Even if you are a monolingual English speaker, what outreach or other work might you do?
Since some of my students’ L1 use the Roman alphabet, I could try to find information regarding how the letters sound in their L1 in order to make connections between English letter sounds and the students’ L1 sounds. In addition, …show more content…
In addition the activation of prior learning and background building are critical components when differentiating for ELs. Providing students with age-appropriate, lower level reading materials, graphic organizers, and guided writing and reading practice will enhance the learning for ELs.
Thematic Units One of my upcoming lessons is for the students to understand the importance of knowing their addresses. I could modify this lesson in order to have a more thematic approach is to work with my colleagues into planning in a cross-curricular method. I am aware that in the social studies class, the students are learning about diverse places in the community. At the same time, in the science class the students are learning about measurements. One way to have a more thematic approach is for the students to use the same vocabulary words in the diverse classes. In addition, the students can create a presentation that may include information from all the classes and notice how the topics from the classes are interconnected to each
• What techniques did Diane use to help her ELL students learn English more quickly?
Created a flash card system that helped the Korean students to speak and read English more quickly, and to recognize the English language sounds. She wrote the Korean letters representing the English sounds. It also helped with their intonation.
• How might you replicate some of her strategies in your classroom? Even if you are a monolingual English speaker, what outreach or other work might you do?
Since some of my students’ L1 use the Roman alphabet, I could try to find information regarding how the letters sound in their L1 in order to make connections between English letter sounds and the students’ L1 sounds. In addition, …show more content…
In addition the activation of prior learning and background building are critical components when differentiating for ELs. Providing students with age-appropriate, lower level reading materials, graphic organizers, and guided writing and reading practice will enhance the learning for ELs.
Thematic Units One of my upcoming lessons is for the students to understand the importance of knowing their addresses. I could modify this lesson in order to have a more thematic approach is to work with my colleagues into planning in a cross-curricular method. I am aware that in the social studies class, the students are learning about diverse places in the community. At the same time, in the science class the students are learning about measurements. One way to have a more thematic approach is for the students to use the same vocabulary words in the diverse classes. In addition, the students can create a presentation that may include information from all the classes and notice how the topics from the classes are interconnected to each