ELL

ELL students do not make up a large portion of the United States but they are spread out and no matter where you live or teach, you are bound to encounter them at some point. Team 1 showed a graph that said even in towns and rural areas there is still about the same amount of ELL students. As we went through the different group activities, I had a lot of fun actually. Team 1 did a great job demonstrating ways to teach ELL students and brought up a lot of interesting points about those students. For example, whether a student is from a different country or if they are from the Bronx, they may have different challenges when it comes to an English lesson about the Three Little Pigs. Some students may have trouble with slang words, while others have trouble with grammar. The rotation that I enjoyed the best was definitely the one where we had to write down a vocab word that students will hardly use outside of the classroom and make an easy to understand definition of that word. We also had to draw a picture to describe what that word means. It was fun to see the different content areas during this lesson because it offered up great ideas as well as a certain level of humor in some areas. Overall it was a good way to get us to think creatively about how we present new words into our lessons.