What Do I Do With An English Language Learner?

Here are your guiding questions that should be answered in the PowerPoint presentation you’re preparing for your interview:

* Does your content area have a state mandated end of year test? (ex. EOG or SOL)

* If so, will your ELL students have to take it immediately?

* If not, how is your content area assessed?

* Where do ELLs fall under NCLB and IDEA?

* What accommodations can you legally provide for your ELLs during formal and informal assessments?

* Why do we mainstream ELLs?

* What are WIDA levels?

* How are they helpful when planning a lesson with ELLs and native-speaking students?

* How can you use them to appropriately scaffold lessons to include all learners in your class?

* How will you accommodate the emotional needs of different ELLs? (specifically immigrants, refugees, asylees)

*How will you interact and work with your schools ELL teacher(s)?

Here are some websites to get you started:

http://www.colorincolorado.org/educators/background/nclb

http://www.aft.org/topics/nclb/downloads/QAELL0404.pdf

http://www.netc.org/focus/

www.tesol.org

http://www.wida.us/index.aspx

http://idea.ed.gov/explore/home

http://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/asylum_refugee.html

http://www.refugees.org/

http://www.newhorizons.org/spneeds/ell/wallace.htm

**http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1b/33/72.pdf

Social Studies: http://www.usca.edu/essays/vol162006/ahmad.pdf

Math: http://www.tsusmell.org/

Science: http://www.teachersnetwork.org/ntol/howto/eslclass/science.htm