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Ell: Student To Tutor Report

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This semester we were given the task of finding an ELL or English Language Learner student to tutor and get to know. My goal was to get to know a student and find ways to help or enhance this student’s educational experience this year. I found my student in a kindergarten classroom at Hunter Elementary in West Valley Utah. This is a lower socioeconomic area. The school has a variety of diverse learners in the classroom and school. This area tends to have a lot of movement in and out of the school. Not just people moving but people going out of town like Mexico for long periods of time to visit family and sometimes they don’t even come back. This makes teaching in this area little more difficult due to the school make up and not knowing if …show more content…

That started conversations on what she likes to do, eat and wants to be when she grows up. This was a great icebreaker to get to know each other; because I did one as well so she could get to know me as well this was an idea I got from the book Creating Welcoming Schools by JoBeth Allen. Getting to know our students helps us as educators get to know their funds of knowledge and what they bring to the classroom. Some of the strengths of Abigail is she is a leader. She helps other students who are ELs by translating to students who speak little to no English. Her personality is hard not to love. She is always so funny and open with everyone and a friend with everyone. She loves to try new things, one day we were tracing letters and numbers in shaving cream. She loved every second of it! She was so excited to do something messy and hands on. She had a great time and had practiced her letters and numbers at the same time. She loved anything I planned she was very fun and easy to work …show more content…

This included letter sounds and letter recognition, counting, writing her name and writing numbers. From the beginning of the semester I can see that she has improved and will continue to improve over the remainder of the year. Some connection I made through this experience to the TESL class was that parents and their involvement in the classroom and school is so important to the teacher and the especially the students. As a teacher I will be sure to incorporate and use my students funds of knowledge to help concept the curriculum to my students. I loved talking and getting to know Abigail’s parents through the interview with her

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