ELL Strategies:

Teaching Tips: This website has over 52 ideas and strategies for both ESL students and mainstream educators. It provides a great wealth of information for teachers such as Bloom’s Taxonomy questions to ask for all levels, a teaching tips section that goes over some of the challenges ELL have in content areas and there is a section of elementary websites for ELL’s. http://www.everythingesl.net/inservices/ For educational strategies the first teaching strategy that I use in the class that I am interning is called question, cue, and organize. This strategy helps students retrieve what they know about a topic by using questions that elicit inferences, cues, or hints about what is to come. By using these types of questions it helps provide feedback on how students are progressing and learning. Another teaching strategy I like to use in the classroom is cooperative learning, for me nothing is better than when students work in groups and help their peers learn. This type of learning is great to use in centers and it is nice to group the students with a high, medium, and low child and watch how the students all adapt to help each other. Some other strategies that have been helpful for me are the Kagan strategies. I know at Treeline Elementary where I am interning at require their teachers to use these and I have found them to be very helpful. Here are some of the Kagan strategies I have tried and enjoyed. “Match Mine” Partners are on opposite aides of a barrier. The Sender arranges gamepieces on a game board and attempts to direct the receiver to match the arrangement. “Rally Robin” In pairs, students alternates generating oral response. And “Mix Pair Share” The class mixes until the teacher calls pair then students find a new partner to discuss the teacher question. Here is their website also http://www.kaganonline.com/Training/index.html also here is the one example of an educational widget, that I found. It can be used for language arts and vocabulary for middle school. Here is there website http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/word and this site provides a new a unique word of the day from thefreedictionary.com. It also provides a word box so you know how to pronounce it. Along with definition, synonymous, and usage.