ELL Blog Resource:
While I was searching for research studies; journals; articles related to my inquiry question, I came across this wonderful blog. Despite the fact that this blog has been designed/ written by a teacher in the States, this blog offers great strategies for K-12 teachers and ELL students.
Haynes, K. ELL Strategies that Work for the Whole Class. Retrieved from http://www.teachhub.com/ell-strategies-work-whole-class.
Kim Haynes has created a great blog which is a great resource for differentiated instruction; specifically focusing on English language learners. She suggests some great strategies that we can use with our students. Even though we might have seen some of these approaches before, she has taken the time to describe each tactic by providing some great examples. This makes it easy for those of us who are having difficulty in assisting some students and are planning to use some of these strategies in our classrooms. Even though this post looks at about 12 different strategies, the three that stood out to me the most were:
“TheTriple exposure” – You teach a concept using 3 ways: Introduce it/ teach it/ review it.
Teach students to “Stop & Think”- Here students review their own work. Kind of like a self-reflection piece.
And my favourite one: “Celebrate each student as unique”- This will not only allow ELL’s to feel safe in the classroom, but they will also feel welcomed which will lead to confident.
More details can be found on the blog below, along with some additional resources:
http://www.teachhub.com/ell-strategies-work-whole-class