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Case: Teacher not using proper ESOL accommodations I am observing in a first grade classroom for an ESOL practicum and noticed that the teacher does not use appropriate ESOL strategies to help the ELL students in her classroom. This school is a high minority area, mostly Spanish and many of the families are low education level migrant worker families, so home support is very low. When I ask the teacher about her ESOL accommodations she explains that many of the teachers do not know how to work with ELL students and that most of them do not have any ESOL training but the school is working on changing that but for the moment they are not equipped to handle the amount of ESOL students and the various levels of English proficiency. As an observer I can see how much these students are missing out on academically and nothing is being done to help them. What can I do to help them? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Without overstepping any boundaries, you might suggest some accommodations or lesson scaffolding to the cooperating teacher. It sounds as though the CT is struggling with teaching her ELLs and might benefit from hearing some of your ideas. If you have a chance to teach a lesson in the classroom, you can include adaptable accommodations and monitor students' work to see how the accommodations worked or didn't work for the students. This observation will be important to remember in your own classroom of the necessary accommodations and scaffolding that ELLs require when learning subject content in an unfamiliar language. |
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