The demographics of school classrooms have slowly, but progressively changing over the years as a variety of different cultures and ethnic groups enrolled in the nation’s school system. The original view that most educators had towards students being similar and therefore taught together as a single group of common individuals no longer works in today’s classroom. Therefore, school districts have begun to incorporate programs that provide assistance to English Language Learners into their systems
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Foreign Language Academy is an immersion school that services students kindergarten to eighth grade. The mission of Foreign Language Academy is that they prepare students to enter high school having met or exceeded state standards in all tested areas; to be proficient readers, writers and speakers of the target language; and to be responsible citizens. There are currently 644 students enrolled in Foreign Language Academy. Of the 644 students 40% of the students are African American, 50% are Hispanic
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can at times be challenging. This added pressure and stress can wreak havoc for ELLs and can result in feelings of not belonging or loss of identity, their culture, family, or friends. They may also feel they lack the ability to fully express themselves through their native language. As teachers we need to take extra time and effort to understand that these students originate from diverse backgrounds, and some ELL students will have the learning skills that will enable them to pick up the English
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come to pursue a new life for both themselves and their families. While these opportunities are presented, they are not accessible to everyone. The Trump Administration creates an environment in which immigrants of color are scorned for even attempting to come to America while European immigrants are praised for chasing after the American Dream. More specifically, Hispanics are portrayed as criminals, drug dealers, job stealers and high school dropouts because of stereotypes that are instilled in our
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time ELLs students receive in language support for academic content area that is required to graduate. | | | | Define EEI! * Education * Environment * InitiativeThis is an environment-based curriculum. This curriculum features 85 individual units. Each unit is aligned to up to 100 selected Science and History-Social Science content standards. This vision encourages an active and hands on experiments. This positively impacts the leaders of tomorrow and their families, schools, and communities
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Educationese Instructions: Utilize the “Educationese” presentation to complete the following chart. Identification of picture with pedagogical term | Definition of Pedagogical term | Purpose in the Educational Process | Picture A: Content standards | Content standard is an articulate description of content for specific grade levels to be able to do or know, which are specified in the picture with grade 4-6. | Content standards are used in education to make sure the students learn the basics
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Cultural Diversity in School Lekesha Fraley ELL 240 Linguistically & Culturally Diverse Learners Instructor: Ashley Simpson May 15, 2014 Connecting with families of ELLs is every bit as important as connecting with the learners themselves in the classroom (Syrja, 2011 ).Working with families is an important first step in helping children accept, understand, and value their culture in school. By creating culturally aware school-family partnerships, school systems can reduce cultural
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regarding young children (www.nectac.org). In their online publication nectac Notes no 27, Danaher, J. states “IDEA offers special provisions for states to identify children younger than school age who are eligible for special education and related services. In addition to the Part B disability categories used for school aged students, states may use Developmental Delay (DD) or a term of their choosing, for ages three through nine or a subset thereof according to their state criteria” (2011,January,no
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There were more than 50,000 children classified as ELL in 2003 -2004 school year. Research shows that ELL struggle academically because of their limited ability to read, write, and speak English because this is the language a majority of educational centers use for children (Hoffman & Sable, 2006). The increase of ELL children has been noticed and teaching professionals are more aware and more educated to facilitate practices more effectively
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background will affect my ability to meet and exceed the needs of second language learners. My family and I are African American with family influences from Ireland and the Caribbean Islands of Barbados and Grenada. Growing up in a military family from the South, English was the primary language that was used in my home by my parents. I was exposed to other languages in small amounts due to the fact that my family lived overseas the majority of my childhood. In the past, I was exposed to German and Korean
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