Reflection: Gonzalez's quote of EL "students doing twice the job of everybody else in the class, even though the result looks like half as much" hit home for me. I had the opportunity to teach an EL section of Global History last school year and saw first hand the amount of effort it took for my EL students to complete an assignment. With my ENL co-teacher present, we eliminated extra vocabulary/parts of tasks, provided visuals, even had a "study buddy" sit near them to collaborate. Even with these modifications & strategies, getting a few sentences for a multi-body paragraph essay was a huge success. I loved the idea of using Sentence Frames for practice for all of my students (especially with the Regents Tasks of answering CRQ questions & Enduring Issues Essays). Not only would this benefit the EL students, but these strategies would aid all students within the classroom.
As a Global History teacher, we discuss cultures and customs from various parts of the world. I could see myself in the future continue to implement cultural backgrounds of the students in our class & make it a point to know their religious and cultural practices. I also liked the idea of continuing to communicate with our ESL staff and teachers in the building- even a simple act of adding them to our Schoology courses and pre-teach or push out materials ahead of time for students to preview prior to class would be a huge help.
As a Global History teacher, we discuss cultures and customs from various parts of the world. I could see myself in the future continue to implement cultural backgrounds of the students in our class & make it a point to know their religious and cultural practices. I also liked the idea of continuing to communicate with our ESL staff and teachers in the building- even a simple act of adding them to our Schoology courses and pre-teach or push out materials ahead of time for students to preview prior to class would be a huge help.