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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