Caitlin James

M.Ed. 🎓 K-5 ESL teacher 🌎 Wescosville Elementary School, Allentown, PA 🦉@EastPennSD @EPSDWescosville Adjunct ESL Professor @LehighCarbonCC

[John @ Kid-Inspired Classroom @kid_inspired]

For your ELLs, learning MATH is a much about language learning as it is about learning the math. You can provide this vocab theme to your students to use as a reference.
https://t.co/kUR2W3nsZe

[🌍 Dr. Vαℓєηтιηα Gσηzαℓєz ♥️🙌🏽 @ValentinaESL]

Like the resilient seeds of a Mexican proverb, we too can rise, even when they try to bury us. 🌱

#hispanicheritagemonth #esolteachers #eslstudents #eslkids #teachingenglish #teaching_english #bilingual_kids #bilingualpreschool #bilingüe

[🌍 Dr. Vαℓєηтιηα Gσηzαℓєz ♥️🙌🏽 @ValentinaESL]

The EL teacher is an INTEGRAL member of a PLC discussing an EL/ML. The EL teacher can advocate for the child and discuss language acquisition, language proficiency, accommodations, progress, etc. Here are some sentence starters for EL teachers in this situation:
1. ____ is a student whose first language is...
2. They have been in our school for ___years/months.
3. Over this time, we have seen ______ linguistic progress.
4. When they entered, they were at a level...and now they are at a level...
5. They seem most confident when...
6. They shine most in ...
7. The linguistic accommodations we are employing are...
8. His/her caregivers report that at home...
9. His/her teachers report that in the classroom...
10. One area that I would like to address with the committee is...

[TCEA @TCEA]

A well-crafted rubric serves as more than just a grading tool; it's a pathway for offering constructive feedback to students, guiding them toward mastering specific learning targets. 🌟🎯

https://t.co/JK82oLCYw5 via @middleweb
#teachertwitter #learning

[Alex @teachingwrens]

Explicitly teaching vocab at the start of a unit in English, and then continually revisiting it, has made a world of difference. Focused on application and understanding, rather than researching definitions. (Not everyone has sentence stems but these work well!)

[John @ Kid-Inspired Classroom @kid_inspired]

5 Tips for Teaching Successful ELL Beginners -
I didn't understand these when I first began working with ELLs.

[Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) @CAL_Linguistics]

Fabiana MacMillan, Director of Test Development at WIDA, and Tanya Bitterman, Associate Director for Test Development at CAL, recently offered insights on the development and updates of ACCESS for ELLs in the article at the link below.

https://t.co/jd8mMNQjzp

[Seal of Biliteracy @BiliteracySeal]

Bilinguals switch cultural practices when they switch languages, and these effects of culture and cultural frame switching, as it is referred to, extend to language use with young children. https://t.co/64peLrJIgw

[Caitlin James @EslCross]

@emilyfranESL @MrsMorganTeach @WIDA_UW Best wishes to your students! I am finishing up ACCESS here in PA on Thursday.

[Caitlin James @EslCross]

@kid_inspired We have a large Gujarati and Burmese population - In Allentown, PA (right next to us) we also have a huge Syrian population, so Arabic is also very common.

[🌍 Dr. Vαℓєηтιηα Gσηzαℓєz ♥️🙌🏽 @ValentinaESL]

Tomorrow Lau v. Nicholas celebrates 50!🎂 I am asking that we all stop and remember that 50 years ago on Jan. 21, 1974, the Supreme Court's decision in Lau v. Nicholas deemed that "[T]here is no equality of treatment merely by providing students with the same facilities, textbooks, teachers, AND curriculum; for students who do not understand English are effectively foreclosed from any meaningful education." ⁣
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How are we doing? How far have we come in this 1/2 century? ⁣
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https://t.co/rVMXxzMJ2x⁣
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[Caitlin James @EslCross]

@teachbk I've taught both, but different content areas (ESL for elem, Spanish for secondary). For me, elementary is more difficult due to the social/emotional piece, but secondary was much heavier on the pen & paper work. I'd imagine a lot of it is more content based than age level though

[Caitlin James @EslCross]

@ValentinaESL In high school I knew a girl who lived in an orphanage in Estonia until she was adopted as a teenager to an English only family. She learned English by watching Alvin and the Chipmunks and also said her adopted mom would sit w/ her, point, and say the word so she could learn.

[Dr. Catlin Tucker @Catlin_Tucker]

🫶🏻 Enhance equity for #EnglishLearners in your classroom with my free Vocabulary Attainment #ChoiceBoard.

Grab it now ➡️ https://t.co/6bpada3Neo

#EdTech #EdChat #EduTwitter #BlendChat

[Colorín Colorado @ColorinColorado]

Sentence patterning charts are similar to sentence frames, but offer students more choice and explicitly teach common sentence patterns. | https://t.co/rVCBYaQTWr

#ELL #ELLchat #MLL #MLLchat @TanKHuynh @easkelton

[Colorín Colorado @ColorinColorado]

Learn how to use the Picture Word Inductive Model (PWIM) strategy to teach students sentence structure and content simultaneously.

This strategy comes from our new #ELL strategy library! https://t.co/U1UClver8i

#ELLchat #MLL #MLLchat @TanKHuynh @easkelton

[TCEA @TCEA]

Here's a LESSON PLAN TEMPLATE that will work for ALL students 👏👇

https://t.co/rYYQbFAwv5 via @TanKHuynh
#teachertwitter #eduresources #mll #ell

[Ms. Jachymiak @MsJachymiak]

I wish more people knew how hard teachers work.

I wish more people knew how much teachers care about their students.

I wish more people realized that teachers are human too.

I wish more people realized that teachers cry sometimes because of how much they care.