Episode 133 - 5 SEL Components to Incorporate in Every ELL Lesson
What is social-emotional learning? And why it is crucial to address it daily with your students, including, if not especially, English learners. SEL or social-emotional learning is the buzzword nowada...
10 Des 202422min
Episode 132 - From Struggle to Success: Helping ELs Thrive in Language Arts Classroom
Helping English learners access the curriculum of the Language Arts class, which is geared towards native speakers, is one of the challenges many teachers face. There are many linguistic demands that ...
3 Des 202418min
Episode 131 - How Neuroscience Can Transform Your ELL Teaching with Guest Meeghan Carter
In order to learn something, we need tools that address the way we learn as people as well as help us develop ways of thinking. In recent years, terms like neuroscience and neuroplasticity have become...
26 Nov 202428min
Episode 130 - Beyond Buddies: How Peer Pairing Empowers ELs
Over the past several weeks, I have been sharing with you three simple accommodations every classroom teacher can make to reach ELs, even newcomers. We talked about why using visuals is essential when...
19 Nov 202414min
Episode 129 - Why Simplifying Your Language for ELs Leads to Effective Higher Order Thinking
I am bringing you a series of episodes … 3 simple accommodations every classroom teacher can make to reach ELs, even newcomers. They are very targeted and easily digestible so that the tips you hear t...
12 Nov 202416min
Episode 128 - Seeing is Understanding: 5 Visual Strategies for Supporting ELs
How can I help an English learner in a regular education classroom? This question is right there at the top of all questions asked by teachers along with what to teach EL newcomers. We all know that t...
29 Okt 202412min
Episode 127 - When to Use Professional Interpreters vs. Bilingual Staff for Communicating with EL Families
Let's talk about translation in the world of multilingual teaching. It is a bigger topic and covers both the translation of materials in the classroom and translation of school communication with EL f...
22 Okt 202419min
Episode 126 - The Top 5 Questions We Get about Teaching ELs - And Here Are the Answers!
I work closely with content area teachers, and I frequently receive questions from them about how they can help English learners in their classroom. The questions about teaching ELs, frankly, are the ...
17 Sep 202425min
