It would be so nice if each teacher was given a magical wand on their college graduation day. It would have lights and bright sparkles on it and include a tag that said, “No batteries needed.” This wand would work like the wonderful world of Disney in that it would turn everyone into perfect English speaking, reading, writing, and listening students. However, if you have ever been to Disney World you would find there is no such thing as a real magical wand. It seems as though the park workers and myself are the only ones that do speak English.
With this huge language barrier, we have teachers that use English language learners assessments (ELLs) for placing and tracking each student with their individual language skills and the progress that is made throughout the school year.
These assessments must be used in all grades that have ELLs in each of the four domains. This shows the teacher at what level each student has achieved (or not achieved) so they can be placed in the appropriate learning center.
These resources give the teacher the ability to understand a student’s weaknesses and what to work on in order to move the ELL to …show more content…
There can defiantly be all types of challenges not only facing the teacher, but the student as well. Teachers need the correct tools in order to appropriately assess each ELL student into the right program for them. One of the challenges that we face is described by the National association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). It states, “Citizens from diverse racial and ethnic groups now comprise about one-third of the U.S. population. Hispanics are the largest minority population; there are approximately 40 million people of Hispanic origin living in the United States. This includes more than 460 languages that are spoken by ELLs nationwide (NAEYC, 2005,
With this huge language barrier, we have teachers that use English language learners assessments (ELLs) for placing and tracking each student with their individual language skills and the progress that is made throughout the school year.
These assessments must be used in all grades that have ELLs in each of the four domains. This shows the teacher at what level each student has achieved (or not achieved) so they can be placed in the appropriate learning center.
These resources give the teacher the ability to understand a student’s weaknesses and what to work on in order to move the ELL to …show more content…
There can defiantly be all types of challenges not only facing the teacher, but the student as well. Teachers need the correct tools in order to appropriately assess each ELL student into the right program for them. One of the challenges that we face is described by the National association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). It states, “Citizens from diverse racial and ethnic groups now comprise about one-third of the U.S. population. Hispanics are the largest minority population; there are approximately 40 million people of Hispanic origin living in the United States. This includes more than 460 languages that are spoken by ELLs nationwide (NAEYC, 2005,