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2 Big Shifts I’m Making as an ESL Teacher
If you look up my job description, it says I’m an ESL teacher for a large urban district with a high percentage of multilingual learners. But I don’t really like the title “ESL teacher,” because it gives the impression that I am teaching English as a second language. It’s true, I do teach in English, but it’s very rarely…
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10 Ways ESL Teachers can Plan for the WIDA ACCESS Test
Is your state a part of the WIDA consortium? Whether or not your state has been WIDA-fied, your multilingual students likely participate in some sort of annual language proficiency exam. In my state, our students complete the ACCESS for ELLs test every January-February. We have almost finished up all of our testing and we’re looking…
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Preparing ESL Students for WIDA’s ACCESS for ELLs Test
Winter is almost here, which means that ACCESS testing is coming up soon for students in ESL! We have been busy preparing our students for this annual WIDA test, hoping that they will remember anything once they return from winter break. In our state, the testing window opens as soon as we return in January!…
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Back to School in ESL
I can’t believe it’s almost time to start school again! I love being in a school that has a team of ESL teachers. Our admin support multilingual learners (MLs) so well, and part of that is ensuring that there are enough language specialists to cover our caseload of students! So this year, we get to…
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That Summer Feeling
Hi! It’s so good to see you in my little corner of the internet. It’s summertime, which means I have time to build a website that will be a space for me to share my thoughts about all things teaching-related, resources that can help you in your work with multilingual learners, and little anecdotes about…