Methods and Strategies: Enhancing Science for ELLs
Sun, Dec 10, 2017 7:31 PM
ELL Strategies
The article I read dealt with ELL strategies. This is a very important factor in schools today because in some schools over half the population deals with ELL students. The article was entitled Methods and Strategies: Enhancing Science for ELLs by Joanee Olsen. In my opinion the article was very good. It did give specific strategies or ideas. As a teacher, I like learning new strategies because they are very helpful when I am all out of ideas. I am very interested in using the word walls. Many students are visual learners and this will help them a lot. This article was very easy to understand and it would be great use to a first year teacher. I really like the idea on the use of alternative assessments. Many students tend to freeze up when they hear the word test. I agree that assessments do not always have to be on paper, they can be observations. Our schools are increasing the number of ELL students daily and it is going to take plenty of strategies and hard work to get them where they need to be. I will be using these strategies in my own classroom.