Hello all. I am a certified Spanish teacher based in SC. IO a am trying to make myself more marketable/add some skills to my arsenal. I was looking at some online tesol companies. Does anyone have any experience with any of these? can anyone recommend any good ones? many thanks!
On 8/09/11, Josh in SC wrote: > Hello all. I am a certified Spanish teacher based in SC. IO > a am trying to make myself more marketable/add some skills > to my arsenal. I was looking at some online tesol > companies. Does anyone have any experience with any of > these? can anyone recommend any good ones? many thanks!
I am from Arizona and this is my first time posting and my first year in my position. I am an ELL teacher, my primary roll at our school is testing all our students on the AZELLA test. Once testing new student is over I will have time to be more of a support to teachers and get into classrooms. I am fortunate enough to have several assistants, 2 that help with testing and all the paperwork and one that works with students. Seems like a lot of help but myself and 2 of the 3 assistants are shared with another school. OK so that was your background knowledge.
Here is my question the assistant that works with the students, for the K/1 students I am pretty comfortable with the support that she is giving those teachers. However, for the 2-8, I would like her to do more Grammar and Writing. Does anyone know of a program that will help guide her so that I don't have to recreate the wheel and make lessons up for her to do. She is pretty good at looking at the material and prepping the materials, I just would like for it to already be created. Thanks for any support you may be able to give.
I know there is a pen pal chatboard. Usually those classes are larger and younger. I have about 15 middle schoolers who would benefit from writing letters to another student. I am interested in anything from Grade 5 up. If you are interested, please reply.
Hi Mary, I have 10 ESL students fro...See MoreOn 8/19/11, Mary wrote: > I know there is a pen pal chatboard. Usually those classes > are larger and younger. I have about 15 middle schoolers > who would benefit from writing letters to another student. > I am interested in anything from Grade 5 up. If you are > interested, please reply.
Hi Mary, I have 10 ESL students from 6th through 9th grade. We start school next week Aug.29. This is my first year teaching ESL in an inner city small charter school. I like the idea of penpals. Lina
On 8/23/11, Lina Racicot wrote: > On 8/19/11, Mary wrote: >> I know there is a pen pal chatboard. Usually those classes >> are larger and younger. I have about 15 middle schoolers >> who would benefit from writing letters to another student. >> I am interested in anything from Grade 5 up. If you are >> interested, please reply. > > > Hi Mary, > I have 10 ESL students from 6th through 9th grade. We start > school next week Aug.29. This is my first year teaching ESL > in an inner city small charter school. I like the idea of > penpals. Lina
I have been teaching ESL for a few years now, but have very limited experience teaching Grade 1 and no experience teaching K. This year for the first time, I will be teaching ESL K-5. I am pretty solid on grades 3-5, good on 2 but pretty much clueless on K-1. Can anyone offer suggestions on what to expect, how to prepare, and what kind of activities I should be doing with the kids? It is an all pull out program so I am not able to push in to see what is happening in the classrooms, unfortunately because that would be very helpful. At any rate, I want to make sure the lessons and units I do with the kids are developmentally appropriate, relevant, and also will not only take 5 minutes to complete lol! Any suggestions of materials you use or activities? Thank you very much.
I do pull-out with first grade and used to with kindergarten. I have a district curriculum as well that focuses on content area for books, I like National Geographic School Publishing's Windows on Literacy Books (low-level nonfiction readers, all kids of topics). Also, good is Avenues Levels a and b. You can make some bingo boards and cards (for playing memory) using Boardmaker (if your district has it - check with sped teachers) or the free website [link removed]
What suggestions do you have for incorporating SmartBoard activities (i.e. beneficial websites,software,etc.)into an ESL classroom when introducing new vocabulary to students at the primary school level?
Hi, I'm interested in a career as an English teacher primarily teaching at schools in Asia. I've been looking for helpful resources and job sites, and recently found [link removed].
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It's great that she has learned to decode - that's progress. Does she know basic vocabulary? If not, start with a picture dictionary - there are some for older students such as the Oxford Picture Dictionary or the Heinle Picture Dictionary. She should have access to an Arabic-English dictionary as well. Your ESL person should be working with her; the fact that she is bilingual in Spanish should be a non-issue because it is VERY common for schools to have ESL students who speak multiple languages and the ESL instruction will be provided in English. (Our school has ESL students from Yemen as well as Mexico, El Salvador, Thailand, Laos, Korea, Japan, China, India, and Russia.) Does the student have access to ESL materials in English and ESL instruction, either with you or with your school's ESL person?
We have a lot of classrooms with some students that are ELL and others who are not as well as students you are in follow-up. I am trying to create a folder for teachers that will have data on the ELL students. Does anyone already do this? I would hate to recreate the wheel if I don't have to. We have students in grades K-8 and some of our classes are departmentalized and some are not. I am also looking for a way to label the desks so any teacher or helper in the classroom will be able to identify ELL students and offer appropriate accommodations for that student. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Lesley University, based out of Boston, now offers many certification programs to add onto a teaching certificate.
Here are some examples (please note the ESL endorsement):
Certificate in Mathematics Education Certificate in Science in Education Certificate in Instructional Technology Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Certificate in Autism Certificate in Teaching Online
There are also Master's and Doctorate Programs too.
If you are interested in any of these programs, please email me at: [email removed]
On 8/09/11, Josh in SC wrote: > Hello all. I am a certified Spanish teacher based in SC. IO > a am trying to make myself more marketable/add some skills > to my arsenal. I was looking at ...See More