All About ELLs......tips and tricks

In this episode, we look at an experienced Spanish teacher and her class. Sra Iglesias is involving her students using only Spanish...the students have only been learning for a semester, though they follow everything Sra Iglesias says.....why? well, she uses a range of pedagogical strategies that help students comprehend and follow the Spanish being used. These same strategies can be used with ELLs in content-area classrooms in order to help them follow your lessons in English.

In this episode we get to think about Principle 3 of our Five Principles for Creating Effective Second language Learning Environments

A bit long ....but EXTREMELY informative about teaching level 2 ELLs.

In this episode, I digress from our Principles of Creating Effective Second Language Learning Environments, to describe what the stages of English language development are. In this episode, I look at the first stage - the preproduction stage - and we consider what instructional strategies are best used with ELLs at this beginning level of English language proficiency

In this episode Principle 2 of Creating Effective Second Language Learning Environments is introduced

In this podcast I start us thinking about Principle 1: how to make our classrooms language-rich environments to foster second language development among our ELLs

In this episode, I unpack the idea of ELL and the implications of English Language Learners in our schools.

Welcome to what I hope will be the very first podcast episode of a long line of episodes introducing you to how best to teach English Language Learners. In this 1st episode I highlight what I think are the five principles for creating effective second language learning environments.