ELL Students Curriculum Analysis

One Misconception regarding ELL students is that immersion into an English-speaking classroom is enough for students to learn English.

Strategies for teaching ELL students in the general education classrooms are also very important. The ELL teachers gave some great

All these strategies gives all students an equal opportunity to practice English, participation and involvement. ELLs students when it’s time to read or participate in class they may be reluctant to speak because of their lack of proficiency in English or feel uncomfortable in an environment where they have to share their ideas. ESL teachers must provide a positive and supportive environment that offers significant influence on student comfort level, success and participation that requiring ELLs to use the language in front of class without force them

The Presidential election of 2000 was a legitimate election. Throughout the entire ordeal of the recount in Florida, Presidential nominee, Al Gore, never took the lead from George Bush. There were four counties in Florida that the Democrats were trying to get recounted. Only 18 out of 67 counties were actually recounted (1). After election day on November 7th, Bush was ahead 2,000 votes; however, the problem was that there were 175,000 ballots declared uncountable because of hanging, dimpled chads or clogged up machines(1). Therefore, Gore’s campaign demanded a recount of all the ballots in counties that said that they voted for Gore. The whole thing lasted about six weeks because the Democrats kept asking for an extension, which the Florida

Jayden is an ESOL student who has strong speaking, listening, and writing skills but is considered intermediate with his reading skills. He has problems decoding reading and even greater problems with getting a deeper understanding from reading, for instance, making inferences. He approaches language for its socially informative aspect. He prefers social interaction to solve problems and to make clarifications on something he does not understand. If he doesn’t understand a text or a word he will usually ask a friend first or the teacher, depending on who is more accessible at the time. He is also motivated by the social aspect of learning and therefore benefits from learning in cooperative learning environments rather than individual ones. He also leans toward looking for answers via oral communication first, rather than looking back at the text and reading for the information. Jayden lacks personal strategies for learning, especially in regards to reading and writing. His strategies have

teachers of ELLs and more importantly, higher outcomes for ELLs (p. 9). De Jong and Harper (2005) consider instruction that takes concern to, “explicit attention in linguistic and cultural needs of ELLs is lacking in most teacher preparation programs” (p. 101).

Beginning on August fourth of 1950, and lasting until September eighteenth of the same year, the North Koreans waged a battle against the United States and UN forces. The UN forces along with the United States were forced back to the Pusan Perimeter, a defensive line set up around the very southeastern tip of the Korean Peninsula. Inside of this protected area was the port of Pusan.

The fact that ELL student’s are given the exact same educational services provided to native English speaker, seem to be very unfair for the ELL student’s and instead of helping the ELL students to succeed academically we are preventing them from succeeding in their classes. When I was reading this section I couldn’t stop thinking about the video that we saw in class, the student was very smart but the fact that he couldn’t understand the material being taught, this was preventing him from showing how brilliant and smart he is. Just imagine how many brilliant ELL students can’t succeed in class because they don’t understand the language of the instruction.

Trying to accommodate different students learning styles in an English learning classroom can be overwhelming. Having good teaching strategies can help English learning students learn more effectively. Using the best strategies will ensure all students in the classroom have an effective learning environment. There are many instructional strategies that teachers can use in the classroom.

Through my bibliographic search, I was able to learn the specifics of what scholars were discoursing on in regards to this topic. Current debates began with the teachers themselves. One article found that ELL teachers were generally “unwelcoming” (Reeves 2006). Reasons for this were the concern that there’s not enough time to address all the students’ needs, too much work for teachers when students are also enrolled in non-ELL classes, and feelings of unqualification to teacher ELL students (Reeves 2006). Another area of discussion is whether ELL programs should take an inclusion approach vs exclusion (from normal school curriculum) approach. Inclusion is when students are mainstreamed for most of the day, with some specific ELL classes. If only in ELL classes, students may not have access to the mainstream education needed to succeed (Reeves 2006). One article stressed the importance of education at home as well. If English is not also spoken at home, acquisition is slowed (Allen 2011). Pride also affects the rate of learning, students will often claim to understand, even though they d not, to avoid the perception of being ignorant (2011).

Think about a lesson that you might teach. Briefly describe it and at least four types of sheltered instructional supports you might provide for your ELL students.

She did this based on a belief that it would help ELLs and non-ELLs alike. The students in the second class reported that classmates were “friendly and nice” and the teacher “likes other cultures.” The results of this study indicate the very important role that a teacher plays in creating and modeling an atmosphere where ELLs are accepted, encouraged and participatory in a learning community.

History is one of numerous topics students learn from the beginning of their education to the end. Although individuals learn a large amount about the past it is often found that scholastics focus mostly upon America’s successes and skim over its wrong-doings and failures. Some people encourage teaching the students about America’s failures so that they may gain some wisdom; therefore, the solution is often thought to be in the form of literature, particularly novels. For example, if The Color Purple by Alice Walker was taught as a part of the high school curriculum it would open discussions on morality and ethics by halting the avoidance of unpleasant but important topics and preventing similar happenings in future years. Walker’s novel addresses a number of situations that many readers find uncomfortable and often avoid.

Assessments are important in determining the effectiveness of any education program. A properly formatted assessment can effectively measure how successful a HL program is to meeting the needs of the population (Altin et al., 2014). In order to successfully assess the effectiveness of the proposed HL education program and its ability to increase understanding of HL knowledge, tests and surveys will be administered throughout the program. A survey that determines how competent students are in regards to race and culture will be administered at the beginning of the course. Additionally, two large examinations that include both verbal and written skills will be being given at the beginning and end of the program. The first examination will

Within this paper we will take a brief look at the Language Acquisition Principles and how they work on the behalf of ELL students. We will see how these principles can be applied within our own learning environment. There is much information from Walqui article that gives a brief overview of ELL students and how things looked in the past for these students. Now that times has change we will see how educators can make the requirements for ELL students better and more effective for teacher and students. Hopefully, as we look at ways of changing learning for our ELL students we must remember that every student learns differently. Even if you follow the principles from