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What grade levels?
How much English do they know?
How much education have they had in their first country?

It's surprising to me that the 50 minutes of Spanish counts,
as that's not ESL. Is the Spanish class designed for native
Spanish speakers or is the Spanish instruction received by
all students (including native English speakers)? Regardless,
it will not be appropriate for the Thai student, certainly
not as ESL time.

Do you have any materials for ESL yet?
Do you have bilingual dictionaries and/or picture
dictionaries for the students to use?

You will get many good suggestions on this board, but what's
appropriate for your students will depend in large part on
the answers to the three questions above - grade level, level
of English, prior education level.

On 10/07/09, MT wrote:
> I was just asked yesterday to add 30 minutes per day into
> my schedule to work with our four ESL students. One is from
> Thailand and three are from Puerto Rico.
>
> I've researched our state's requirements. If a school has
> fewer than 20 ESL students, a certified ESL teacher is not
> required.
>
> I'm actually looking forward to this, but not sure WHAT I'm
> looking forward to.
>
> According to what the principal says the guidelines are --
> we must offer at least 50 minutes per day/250 minutes per
> week to this endeavor. Our Spanish class will count, which
> is two 25 minute sessions per week.
>
> I'm not sure what plans they have yet beyond what I've
> mentioned.
>
> We know this isn't the ideal situation, but with and
> extremely tight budget and already tightly stretched
> budget, this is our starting point.
>
> I'll be reading posts on this board over the next couple of
> days and printing out or making notes on anything and
> everything that sounds practical for my setting.
>
> If you have any suggestions directly related to my
> situation, I would be extremely appreciative.
>
> I'm 1/2 day Title I Math and 1/2 day Elementary Computer
> Lab.

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