Promoting Academic Achievement for
Struggling ELs, New York State TESOL Conference, November 16, 2013, White Plains, NY.
This rich ELL resource helps content and ESOL teachers collaboratively help
struggling ELs meet today's rigorous content standards using research - based scaffolding techniques, advocacy and more!
Our reality as products and active transmitters of formal education is a different reality than that of
struggling ELs.
While this approach may make
struggling ELs successful in a particular classroom, it does not move them towards school success.
For one, educators may choose to teach
struggling ELs in the ways with which they are most comfortable, namely focusing on the concrete and familiar, and incorporating conventional basic literacy development.
A deep understanding of culture allows us to draw on and honor the prior experiences and current knowledge of
struggling ELs, experiences and knowledge that may not be (and in most cases are not) school - based ways of thinking and school knowledge.
MALP ® prepares
struggling ELs to participate in formal education while honoring their prior knowledge and experiences.
Struggling ELs are accustomed to shared responsibility; formal education demands individual accountability, particularly on assessments.
Neither approach truly addresses the needs of the majority of
struggling ELs.
By implementing culturally responsive teaching using the MALP ® instructional model, we can more effectively transition
struggling ELs to a new and different reality, one in which they see themselves as successful learners in a learning paradigm centered on literacy, school - based ways of thinking, academic discourse, and decontextualized tasks.
bridge between the learning paradigm of
struggling ELS and that of our educational system, culturally responsive teaching must be
There is, however, a third option, one that creates a bridge to success for
struggling ELs.
Other educators may take the approach that current pedagogical practices are sufficient and that it is the responsibility of
struggling ELs to catch up and keep up.
An essential portion of this alternative conversation about
struggling ELs is the incorporation of culturally responsive teaching (Gay, 2010) into our classrooms.
The preference for oral transmission makes the centrality of literacy in our classrooms difficult for
struggling ELs.
This rich ELL resource helps content and ESOL teachers collaboratively help
struggling ELs meet today's rigorous content standards.
Not exact matches
Many Ss, not just
ELs struggle w / this method.
Effective Instructional Strategies for Expediting Literacy for
Struggling Readers and
ELs in the Content Areas