Personal Philosophy and Major Learnings
For the final post of the class, I would like to reflect on my developing understanding of teaching English language learners and how my personal philosophy has developed and reinforced. The most rewarding part of the class has been realizing that the key elements that make great instruction for ELLs has been the same principles that I have been taught over the course of my teaching career and use in the classroom. The components that should be incorporated with ELL students, I believe, should be used with all students. It is just good instruction and can help any student with their learning.
I did learn the stages of a second language acquisition and the characteristics of each stage. This knowledge was new to me and now I know why it is so important to know where ELL students fall into the stages. I also appreciate and found very useful the different resources we created or obtained during the course. Create the spelling guide for parents and the graphic organizers were useful and already used in my own classroom.
Finally, this class has helped me deepen my philosophy of teaching English language learners. I believe the students deserve the best instruction we can provide them and it is our responsibility to incorporate the following elements in our classrooms:
-objectives
-nonlinguistic representations
-feedback
-self-reflections
-graphic organizers
-cooperative learning
-differentiated assignments, assessments, and homework
-instruction driven by assessment data
-Classroom Talk
-Developing background knowledge and vocabulary
-higher-order questioning and thinking skills
-hands-on activities
-engaging and interactive lessons
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