This blog captures the experiences of an instructor in a pre-service ELL course carrying out a collaborative project with her university students and a small school district around questions and answers.
The question that we are working on is: “Are there online or other quick resources available to teachers for cultural understanding or academic questions/activities for ELL kids?”
After taking education and ESL courses, I thought about what other factors to keep in mind besides cultural understanding. What perhaps the teachers should also focus on are the students type of learning style, the use of authentic materials, and what to take into consideration when using online resources. I’ll go more in depth later on.
One of the online places that can be helpful for cultural understanding is on Google scholar. An article I found was English Language Learners: A Growing Population by Kathleen Flynn and Jane hill, which is very helpful informational guide. However, when researching one has to be careful making sure they have the whole text is there but other then that it has great information. I would also consider looking at books as well as maybe taking the chance to do an observation at a school or talking to someone who teaches ELL students. I believe it is more beneficial to get ideas. The book Student cultural diversity: Understanding and meeting the challenge by Eugene Garcia is one that appeared to have great key points on how to help ELL students. Let me know what you think, but don’t you think that even some of the articles we have been reading in class would also be useful as a resource to get an understanding of what to think about when teaching ELL students.
This website has lots of cultural etiquette quizzes, culture lessons, and activities. http://www.sundancepub.com/c/@UcP8zTv6fRlTw/Pages/product.html?nocache@1+record@S8478
The question that we are working on is: “Are there online or other quick resources available to teachers for cultural understanding or academic questions/activities for ELL kids?”
ReplyDeleteAfter taking education and ESL courses, I thought about what other factors to keep in mind besides cultural understanding. What perhaps the teachers should also focus on are the students type of learning style, the use of authentic materials, and what to take into consideration when using online resources. I’ll go more in depth later on.
One of the online places that can be helpful for cultural understanding is on Google scholar. An article I found was English Language Learners: A Growing Population by Kathleen Flynn and Jane hill, which is very helpful informational guide. However, when researching one has to be careful making sure they have the whole text is there but other then that it has great information. I would also consider looking at books as well as maybe taking the chance to do an observation at a school or talking to someone who teaches ELL students. I believe it is more beneficial to get ideas. The book Student cultural diversity: Understanding and meeting the challenge by Eugene Garcia is one that appeared to have great key points on how to help ELL students. Let me know what you think, but don’t you think that even some of the articles we have been reading in class would also be useful as a resource to get an understanding of what to think about when teaching ELL students.
This website has lots of cultural etiquette quizzes, culture lessons, and activities. http://www.sundancepub.com/c/@UcP8zTv6fRlTw/Pages/product.html?nocache@1+record@S8478
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