Our corporation offered a paid workshop today. It was for ELL students. The instructors gave is some very good information. However, I struggle with how to make my classroom work for all my students. What are your best pointers for reaching your ELL students without losing the other students? If I spend time translating and helping my ELL students, my other students get bored or start causing problems.

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My very best advice is to allow students to partner work or small groups. I have found that many students will engage with a small group better than an entire class. It is an extra bonus if you have bilingual students who can do some or most of the translating for you. Even if you can’t partner everyone, it will at least be a smaller group that may be distracting.

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They offered done good advise, including what you said about the small group or partners. I'm going to try to incorporate more of that in since I have to rewrite a lot of my lesson plans anyway

In my science classroom, I have found incorporating whole brain teaching techniques and Kagan structures not only benefited my ELL students but all my students; especially students struggling with understanding, concepts, and vocabulary. It is difficult to translate everything for students. However using these structures allows you to partner your students with other students that would be a good fit to help them assimilate the lesson and everyone benefits.

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I will have to check out these techniques. I feel like our corporation is failing teachers and students by not giving us better training and resources.

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