Do you have an ESL curriculum that would be helpful to you and your students?
Can you relate to any or all of the next statements?
- I am tasked with teaching ESL/ELL newcomers, but my district doesn’t have a curriculum for that.
- I teach middle and high schoolers – and that is an added layer to the lack of curriculum .
- I teach mixed level classes – where do I find ready made lessons?
Being an ESL teacher usually involves a lot of moving parts.
In order to ensure our students’ success, we must be well-versed in language acquisition theory and practice, collaborate with our colleagues, scaffold our teaching to make the content accessible and to work with mixed-proficiency levels.
In addition, we create our own lessons, juggle lack of curriculum or grapple with one that we can clearly see doesn’t work for our English learners.
With all of this in mind, It can be hard to find a curriculum that meets all of the above mentioned demands. But I wanted to offer a different perspective.
And in today’s episode I will share with you a three-step roadmap that you can take to help your ELL students.
Here is what you will hear:
- How I myself needed a structure, a framework, a roadmap of sorts and how I began to pay attention to my own questions and those that other teachers asked.
- The three questions that I hear over and over again regarding teaching English learners
- The simple realization that the answer to these questions is really THE Roadmap.
As always, below you will find related resources that will help support your ELs and save you planning time!
- Simply Ieva ESL website – post about what to teach newcomers first.
- Teaching Absolute Beginners: An ESL Teacher’s Handbook
- 25 Authentic Speaking Activities for Your ESL Classroom
- The ESL Teaching Roadmap – membership community for middle and high school ESL/ELL teachers. Click HERE to join.