Dear struggling teacher, below you will find our 4 big suggestions when approaching this issue with best technology and SIOP practices, Smekens strategies, and utilizing our ELA curriculum resources. Tip #1: Use… Continue reading "Dear Instructional Coaches: Absent Student Struggles"
Dear frustrated teacher, below you will find our 3 big suggestions when approaching this issue with de-escalation, Trauma-Informed Care, and SIOP in mind. Tip #1: Don’t take student behavior personally. … Continue reading "Dear Instructional Coaches: Classroom Management Struggles"
In my classroom, I want all students to learn. Don’t we all? But I also want my nights and weekends to myself and not to be spent lesson planning. So… Continue reading "Planning for Success with SIOP Components"
Practice and Application The 6th component of SIOP is Practice and Application. Practice and Application focuses on how will students will practice both the content and language objectives. It is… Continue reading "Making Learning Concrete with Hands-On Activities and Manipulatives"
All secondary teachers and students have free access to Explain Basics on their self service app store on the iPad. If you haven’t used this iPad app it can be… Continue reading "3 ways to Implement SIOP in under 10 minutes with Explain Basics"
October 16 Update: Canvas has now made immersive reader available in more areas, not just pages. Read more below. Our students enter our classrooms with different life experiences. This is… Continue reading "Using Immersive Reader and New Quizzes to Build Background in Canvas"
No two students enter our classroom with the same life experiences. This is especially true when you have English language learners as members of your classroom community. To help counter… Continue reading "Building Background with Seesaw"
If you teach Level 1 ENL students, one accommodation you can make is to provide English vocabulary alongside home-language translations. This helps students make mental connections to the new content… Continue reading "Use Google Sheets to Quickly Translate Vocabulary Lists"