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TOGETHER WE ARE BETTER CO-TEACHING ELLS WITHIN THE GENERAL EDUCATION SETTING Georgia Branson & Megan Mayfield Cherokee County Schools

PLANNING • Email Correspondence • One week notice for ESOL teacher • General Education Teacher • Plans to the state standards and objectives (content objectives) • ESOL Teacher • Takes the content objectives and creates language objectives • Highlight to differentiate from General Education Teacher plans • Add ELP differentiation for each lesson component & color code for TKES and to show collaboration

GROUPING • General Education Students • Grouped based on pretest/post-test • Reading Level/ Lexile Level • ELLs grouped with English Speaking peers • WIDA Chart • Type or write names directly on the document • Provides “Can Do” descriptors for each English Language Proficiency Level

BEFORE THE LESSON • ESOL T eacher previews Unit vocabulary • Visual Presentation of Vocabulary • Access prior knowledge on the topic through group discussion • Students create picture vocabulary cards with teacher direction • Picture cards can be referenced throughout the Unit • Flocabulary and Vidtionary • General Education T eacher • Grouping students based on assessment data and reading levels • Reviewing WIDA chart to aid in planning independent work

WHOLE GROUP INSTRUCTION • PowerPoint and Interactive Flipcharts • Introduce content material • Visual representation of vocabulary • Charts and diagrams associated with content material • Turn and Talk to review and use academic vocabulary after each subtopic • Video Clips Hook learners into the content • Connection to real-world application • BrainPop • • Mind-Mapping • Web-based tool to engage students in note-taking • Use of academic vocabulary in writing • Formative Assessment

STOP! • Turn and Talk to the people around you and explain how you can use some of these ideas in your classroom. • Use the words: • Content Material • Academic Vocabulary • Connections

DIFFERENTIATED CENTERS • What to Include: • Hands-on activity • Science experiments • Open exploration time • Academic Vocabulary/Sorting station • Example: levels and branches of government • Example: historical figures sort with vocabulary • Speaking center • Created a Reader’s Theater performance using economic relationships (consumers/producers) • Narrated PowerPoints • ChatterPix

DIFFERENTIATED CENTERS • Independent Comprehension station • Differentiated passages based on Lexile level • Increased support for lower ELP levels • Listening station • PebbleGo • BrainPop • Group discussions of task card content • Writing station • Blogging (Kidblog) • Commenting on blog posts • Creating presentations in SWAY and PowerPoint

MAKING THE CLASSROOM EL FRIENDLY • Managing larger class size • Pushing in students from other homerooms • Using centers with a larger group • Support within the centers • Language Frames • Anchor Charts • Utilizing picture vocabulary cards • Interactive notebooks

STOP! • Turn and Talk to the people around you and give an example of a center you could utilize in your classroom. • Use the words: • Listening • Writing • Speaking • Reading Comprehension

ASSESSMENT • Differentiated tests based on ELP levels • Highlight key words • Reduce multiple choice answers • Match vocabulary to picture card (Level 1) • Open Note Test using interactive Notebook • Alternate Assessments • Culminating Tasks • Technology Presentations • Student led activities • STEM activities

Math Morning

Economics Carnival

PARENT PARTICIPATION • ESOL Open House • Finding translators • Flyers in native language • RSVP for translation placed on invitation • Translation videos for conferences • Lo Porto Subscription • Skype translators • Google Translate for documents & email

STOP! • Turn and Talk to the people around you and discuss ways to modify student assessments. • Use the words: • Reduce • Highlight • Alternate

QUESTIONS