Teaching Guidelines

http://ccsd.net/ellp/programs/teachingguidelines.html
This website provides guidelines for teachers of ELL students. This is useful because it teaches us how to meet student's needs in the areas of study skills, reading, listening, writing, speaking, and research. Student's need to learn how to organize their notes so that they can learn the information from them. The first experience students have with English is through listening. Teachers can help their students by using oral cues, written cues, a combination of both oral and written cues, physical response exercises, and multi-media support. It is extremely important that teachers create a comfortable and inviting environment to encourage early language. This is essential to help ELL students learn and develop. Some techniques include repetition drills, substitution and transformation drills, formulation exercises, dialogues, and role playing exercises. I really believe that role playing is a great way for student's to learn. It is important that they have practice and time to prepare before demonstrating it to the class. The next area is reading. Reading is a difficult skill for most students to master. The teacher can help by providing vocabulary, different exercises such as matching and recognition, and silent reading time. In my sophomore field I was placed in a kindergarten class in Perth Amboy. My cooperating teacher had the children select a book of their choice each week and take it home and read it with their parents. ELL students must also begin writing the English language as soon as possible. They can do paragraph writing and completion exercises. I think it is also a good idea to allow them to peer edit and then check it over as the teacher. This will help them to develop their skills.