ENGLISH LEARNER SUPPORT
Reentry Resources
Opportunities exist to engage English learners and their families in unique and powerful ways as we rethink what our new normal looks like. Connect with students and understand their needs, design learning experiences that build on the strengths of multilingual learners, and design strategic supports to ensure accessibility.
Colorin Colorado: Distance Learning Guide
This guide shares ideas on how to get started with distance learning for English language learners, tools that can increase language production, and lessons learned about communicating with multilingual families during COVID-19.
5 Structures for Virtual School
Tan Huynh offers five structures that he has utilized to support his learners during virtual school. These include tips for recording lessons, an accessible planning tool, advice on student materials, as well as reflections on virtual meetings and collaboration.
10 Ways to Get Students Using Academic Language During Distance Learning & Beyond
How can we get students to use academic language? In this article, you will find 10 ways to get students, especially English learners, practicing academic language in your classroom and beyond.
Individualized Learning Plan Template
An individual learning plan (ILP) is a document that describes the academic and language needs of, and goals for, an English learner. An ILP details the strategies, accommodations, and goals to be implemented daily in the classroom in order to help ELs be successful. Here is a useful template for creating an ILP.
Teaching Multilingual Learners Online
Since many schools are moving to online instruction, WIDA reached out to educators in the WIDA International School Consortium to identify some of the unique opportunities and challenges for multilingual learners in online environments. This resource outlines these opportunities and aligned tools across WIDA guiding principals.
6 Key Considerations for Supporting English Learners with Distance Learning
SEAL explores six research foundations for supporting English learners and practical suggestions for how to apply these principles to distance learning.
School communities understand the importance of consistent, regular support for students who speak a language other than English as it relates to English-acquisition. An important part of that directly connects to the amount of exposure that children have to the English Language. Below are some ways in which schools and districts can consider ongoing support of students, even when school takes form of distance learning.
How do we determine which tech tool to use for online schooling? This is not an article about which virtual school tech tools to use. It’s about how to assign a job for each of the tech tools in your repertoire. By starting with your learning objectives and considering which tech tool to use to help students access that objective, you can learn to filter the myriad of tech tools in your tool belt into a workable framework.
The following brief provides an overview of the separate but intersecting federal policies that govern the identification of and services provided to English learners and students with disabilities. This overview will frame key opportunities to serve ELs with disabilities more equitably with the aim of helping policymakers, advocates, and practitioners take more strategic action on behalf of these students.