If these students are in a classroom separate from her other students,
will they receive more ESL services? Google CALLA. They have
articles that will build her confidence with teaching ESL students.
I hope that this helps.
On Aug 25, 2010, at 8:23 PM, Hillary Marchel wrote:
Thank you for your reply. I probably was not clear in my first
email. I was not looking for research. I was looking for articles
that would build her confidence specific to other schools or
teachers who have had success with ELL students in their schools or
classrooms. This teacher instructs using all the best practices that
you mention. She is an excellent teacher. So you can imagine my
surprise and disappointment. I believe she is feeling overwhelmed
and I can understand that but her proposal to put her ELL's in a
classroom separate from her other students was very disappointing.
Hillary Marchel Reading Specialist
Hawthorn Elementary North
[email protected]
We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance but
it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to
recognize that we have such a distance still to go.
--LEWIS THOMAS
On Aug 25, 2010, at 5:10 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi,
I probably am looking at the situation differently than you, but,
I do not
think sharing research in that they are all of our responsibility
will
affect the situation.
I believe you are referring to homogeneous vs. heterogeneous
grouping of
students.
What is leading the teacher to view instruction in this manner?
Could it
be that the teacher does not know how or feels insecure in
teaching ELL
students? Does he/she feel it would delay the progress of the
other students?
Could it be that the teacher does not differentiate instruction or
know how
to use the students’ strengths and weaknesses in a lesson? Maybe
this
teacher does not know how to work with a colleague in a push-in
program. These
are just a few possibilities.
I hope this has given you a helpful way to approach the situation.
Casey
In a message dated 8/25/2010 5:13:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
Is there an article I can reference specifying the importance of
teaching
all the students in our classrooms. I have a teacher who wants to
put all
the ELL students in one room and have another teacher support them.
My goal
is for her and many other teachers to understand that as teachers
working
with ELL students in our classroom, although it may be difficult,
they are
all of OUR children. TEACH THEM AND THEY WILL LEARN! PLEASE HELP.
Thanks
Hillary Marchel Reading Specialist
Hawthorn Elementary North
[email protected]
We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance
but it
should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to
recognize that we
have such a distance still to go.
--LEWIS THOMAS
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