What types of teaching strategies of you utilized with your ELL students? Which strategies do you think you will implement in the future?
One strategy that I use is having students work in cooperative learning groups. I make sure to group my ELL students with other students who are proficient in English, so that they can practice their English in a low stress environment. They feel more comfortable talking in English with a small group of peers as opposed to in front of the whole class. I also try to include a lot of visuals in my teaching so that if they are confused by the wording of a concept, they can hopefully understand its meaning based off of the visuals that I provide. This is particularly important when working with word problems, that are often difficult for my ELL students to understand. Something I need to make sure I include more of is establishing language objectives for my ELL students. I always have the math objective listed, but I want to make sure to post the language objectives as well to make sure that I am giving my students to practice their language skills in the math classroom.
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