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How to Create a Welcoming Classroom Environment for ELLs
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Learn how to create a welcoming classroom environment for your English language learners (ELLs) and immigrant students — and why it matters — with these strategies from Colorín Colorado. This article is part of the Strategies for ELL Success guide.
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​Pinterest can bring teachers together like no other social media tool. Teachers can connect and collaborate with other educators across the country. Each teacher can create boards to share their ideas and other boards to collect new ideas. Every pin, board and person on Pinterest has an individual link, which makes sharing easy.
Check out my pins by clicking on the icon.
Lesson Plans and Helpful Tools to Reach ALL students!
Lesson Plan: Making Inferences: The Great Garbage Bag Mystery
Click HERE for Two Bad Ants Book Info
Click HERE for worksheet
Click HERE for anchor chart
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Click HERE for grades 6-12 Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Unit
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Helpful Tools for Literacy Proficiency and Note Taking For all students:
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Articles
Culturally Responsive Teaching​
​"When classrooms are organized into commu- nities that are designed to encourage academic and cultural excellence, students learn to facilitate their own learning as well as that of their fellow students"
-Elizbeth B. Kozleski
Teacher and Student Interactions
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Every day, teachers make countless real-time decisions and facilitate dozens of interactions between themselves and their students. Although they share this commonality, educators all over the country often talk about these decisions and interactions in different ways. The Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS), developed at the University of Virginia’s Center for Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning, helps educators view classrooms through a common lens and discuss them using a common language, providing support for improving the quality of teacher-student interactions and, ultimately, student learning.
