Solutions for ELL Students

Good solutions and tips for teachers who have ELL studnets are the following. Getting to know your student (outside the box information), ask what their native country was like, and most importantly give praise to the students. What I learned through reading the a guidebook to theory and practice, was that teaching an ELL student is much like having your student like it is your own child. Their should be a little bit more of "care" to the ELL students. Many of the ELL students are coming from a totally different culture and of course a different language.

Not only are you teaching the students the requirement of the district board, but you are teaching the English culture, taboos, and just tips that the students should know living in a different culture.

But the key of becoming an ELL teacher, is providing a playful, joyful, and loving environment for the students. There can not be any sort of bias or being impatient with the student. A good small harmless thing a teacher could do, is to use a token method. To teach the new students some cultural taboos, using the token method is a good form to use. Every human no matter what culture, knows the token system. For every good act the students does you reward them with a token. At a certain time, the students could trade their tokes for prizes. Dual language teachers have to constantly provide a fun and entertaining environment to fuel the ELL students in which they feel hungry to learn more of the english culture. Not only is learning English important, but what is more important is teaching the foreign students taboos they may not know.

Bibliography

Gunderson, Lee, 1942-revised 2007- ESL (ELL) literacy instruction: A Guidebook to theory and practice.

youtube video called Billingual ELL students and stratigies @ http://www.youtube.com/