Welcome Back to School

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde.

Teaching English learners can be challenging. Teachers are focused on meaning content goals with teaching language skills as well. Because classroom teachers as well as English language learner teachers need classroom support, this blog was created to give teachers in Laurens County tools to further there knowledge of teaching our growing population of English learners. I wish each of you a fantastic school year. Here we go….

Currently in Laurens County we serve 130+ students who speak seven different languages: Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, Gujarati, and Hindi. Each school has a subgroup of English learners and an English language teacher assigned to the building. we utilize push-in, pull-out, and scheduled models of EL instruction.

As we kick off the FY 20 school, I wanted to provide each of you with some resources that will be helpful to supporting you in the classroom. We will go over some of these resources in more depth as the year progresses.

The first link that I would like to point you to is our English Learner resource page. This site is loaded with information that can help guide you in planning instructional activities for your students. In the next post, I will give you information on the Can Do Descriptors and how to weave them into your lesson planning. https://padlet.com/lawilliamson6/ELResources