Accommmodations for ELLs and Infusing Technology into a Lesson/ Flipped Classroom

This Methodology use teaching strategies and learning resources that make content comprehensible; this is the key to helping the student understand the content and learn the language.

Infusing Technology into a Lesson:

If your are looking for a way to add excitement to your lessons and connect with more of your students, technoogy is the answer! Utilizing and combining groapics, video, and audio can address varied styles of learnign in a support to English languge learners.

Teaching English ELLs through Technology:

Technology is transforming education today and it will continue to do so tomorrow.

We can use our aim in to simulate the feedback of the mentor teacher to intern and map out how the original lesson plan was transformed so that the final draft ultimately exampled many of the instructional sequences (ELL modifications and technology infusion) we would like you to reflect on and consider. Aside from the specificity of the content (investigation of the nature of countries throughout the world), the lesson plan below could unfold across any range of content subject-areas. In essence, it is instructionally generic:

1. The teacher introduces a new topic by asking students a range of questions to activate their schema.

2. The teacher then explains the parameters of project: researching a topic (a country) and creating a product (a brochure).

3. The students are then let loose in the library to research the topic and collate the information the form of a brochure

ELLs English Language Lerners: 

Are students who are unable to communicate fluently or learn effectively in English, who often come backgrounds and who typically require specialized or modified instructions in both English language and in their academic courses.

FLIPPED CLASSROOM:

A new method of teaching is turning the traditional classroom on its head.

A flipped classroom is more demanding thant the traditional one. The teacher need to identify the individual lerning needs of students. It come with a set of rewards:

Teachers can support students in better undestandin the concepts through practical application.

Once a lecture is done, it can be reused as many times as the teacher wants.

Give more feedom to teachers to decide upon how much time to spend with each student.

Last, but least, it offers more trnsparency for parents. This can also improve the communication between parents and teachers.

All the tools are the teacher´s to use, for the best delivery of instruction.

A student-centered approach to teaching shifts the focus from the teacher's needs to the student´s.

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