1. Working with English Learners agarza@fullerton.edu

2. -English learners should have daily English language development lessons -Books in both the home language and English should be available on a daily basis. (use a checkout system, as a reward…)

3. Taken from: Bennett, C. (2011). Comprehensive Multicultural Education: Theory and Practice. Boston, Mass. Pearson Peregoy, S. and Boyle, O. (2013). Reading, Writing and Learning in ESL. (8 th ed.). Boston, Mass. Pearson

4. Eight Characteristics of Teachers who have attained high level of racial and cultural competence

5. -Are very comfortable with students -Engage students all the time -Have a personal positive connection with each student

6. -Have very high expectations for each student and follow through with them -Accept total responsibility for any students lack of success (persistence pays off) -Have a strong positive relationship with all the parents

7. - Constantly reflect on their practice & include others in the assessment of their practice - Develop and use culturally relevant lessons on a regular basis

8. Principles of Culturally Relevant Teaching

9. -Students must experience academic success, including literacy, numeracy, and the technological, social and political skills they need to be active participants in a democracy. Self esteem accompanies genuine academic success. What does this mean?

10. -Students must develop and/or maintain cultural competence, and the students home culture becomes a vehicle for learning. What does this include?

11. -Students must develop a “critical conciousness” through which they may challenge social injustice. What might this look like?

12. Examples of Culturally Relevant Teaching

13. An emphasis on cooperation and collaboration in the classroom -Encouraging students to rely on and support each other -Including students’ real life experiences in the curriculum

14. -Allowing students to ask their own questions and search for their own answers -Encourage students to lead discussions & other class activities

15. Working with English Learners

16. PREREADING -Build background knowledge -Motivating the learner -Setting purpose

17. - Some pre-reading strategies -Overview (preview of topic) -films -pictures -preview in L1

18. During Reading - Reading with a purpose -Monitoring comprehension -Engaging background knowledge

19. During Reading Strategies - Learning logs -Asking questions -Using headings/sub-headings -Answering questions

20. -Postreading -Organizing & remembering information -Using information

21. -Post-reading strategies -Artwork -Summarizing -Publishing/dictation -Reporting -Making a film

22. Other helpful strategies for ELs

23. - Before a lesson Review the concept -in the home language (L1) if possible -provide a book, film, youtube or information sheet (search google…)

24. Before a lesson cont… Teach key vocabulary

25. During the lesson -Use visuals, gestures, pair/share -Assign a bilingual buddy to EL -Repeat & define key vocabulary

26. -During the lesson cont… -create a graphic organizer, writing or using pics of major concepts Examples: venn diagrams, clusters comic strips, charts, … - ask questions that are comprehensible for Els (watch sequence of questions, ask questions that require one-word answers…)

27. During the lesson cont… Review the major concepts at the end of the lesson. – encourage students to add a sentence using the vocabulary to their vocabulary journal

28. After the lesson -Modify the task for Els based on their English fluency Ex: instead of a paragraph, a sentence, or a pic and dication