Learners

Who am I as a learner? The learner profiles that not good at is communication as if I hate being in groups and socializing. One academic I’m not so amazing at is Math it makes me very very confusing…. But one that I’m great at is being a risk taker which means that you are confident about trying new everything , also standing up for what you believe. This relates to me being; i'm in sports I play soccer and i'm great at it…. but when i'm on the field I can be a risk taker and this is why, when…

district court and the Court of Appeals affirmed the position of the San Francisco School District that they were not required by law to provide English Language Learner services to non-English speakers. The Court of Appeals held that every student brings their own unique background, skills,…

Introduction English pronunciation is a major problem among some ESL learners. Majority of the cases the degree and type of difficulty depends on the learner’s native language. Despite the differences between countries, there are certain common mistakes among ESL students all over the world. According to (Pesce, 2017) there are seven common pronounciation mistakes among the ESL learners.Pronouncing the letter “th”,it is the most tough comsonant to produce. There are three different ways to…

Though my personal mission statement feels as if it was written forever ago, I still have the same ideas in mind that I believe can connect directly to our class text, Becoming a Learner by Matthew L. Sanders. Sanders puts emphasis on why we go to college, what to do in college, work and finding purpose in education. My first and foremost goal in my mission statement was wealth and/or financial security. I want to be able to provide for myself and others comfortably. Most people believe or…

Summary The English language learners (ELL) population has been and will be growing as time goes by; due to that reason teaching and instruction need to be suitable for all students including ELLs. In the article Teaching English language learners in the content areas by Joy Janzen, we can see how ELL students make 10.5% of the school population, and these same students are at a high risk of academic failure (Janzen, 2008). A very important factor about ELLs is that a vast majority of them have…

Grabe and Grabe (2007) explained the importance of letting students do the work when they stated, “schools seldom allow students to do “works of the mind” (Original projects or investigations that are largely the responsibility of the learner)” (p. 338). Because I have been working this semester with a dysfunctional PLC who use multiple choice unit tests that require only level one thinking on Bloom’s Taxonomy, I have been hyper-aware of the type of work we ask students to do. Our readings, too,…

is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire”. This quote exemplifies a Social Reconstructionist and a Learner-Centered ideology of education. It is the job of the teacher to tend to and provide the adequate environment and stimulation for that fire to flicker strong and grow in the present and future years to come. That flame that grows strong…

Big Picture vs. Detail-Focused Learners If we are so concerned with students seeing the bigger picture in everything they learn, we should take a look at what it means to be a big picture learner versus a detailed focused learner. Big picture learners seem to be more successful with real-world scenarios that show a purpose for learning the material. They like to dig into conversation regarding open-ended questioning. Another aspect is that they want to see how what they are learning will fit…

During the Industrial Revolution, another chore was added to women’s list, which is work outside of the home. The articles I read was a deliberation between the two authors, Nancy Cott and Gerda Lerner, on whether or not the industrial revolution created more opportunities for women. According to Nancy, the industrial revolution did create more opportunities for women as compared to women’s life before the revolution. On the other hand, Gerda disagrees with Nancy’s argument. She believes the…

Success with English Language Learner’s by Margo Dellicarpini was something I was interested just by reading the title. Any time I hear the word success I am motivated. When seeing the title I predicted this article would talk about how one is able to succeed with ELL students. As a first year teacher, I am looking for many any tools or skills I can gain to make every single one of my students are successful. Once all of my students are successful I can somewhat feel that sense of success…