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| timothypfox wrote: |
The current school I work at in New York is a special education high school, and I am the only ESL teacher. Some of the special education teachers see me the same way as they do an ELA teacher and in fact I found myself teaching two ELA classes this year in my schedule. My AP suggested that ESL has many methodologies that are similar to special education.
Others at my school lump me in with the related service providers because some of my 5 day a week - regularly scheduled classes mind you - are pull out classes. But technically ESL teachers are subject area teachers - instructing one or more subjects - usually ELA - although I find myself doing mainly ELA and social studies - and a bit of math - embedded in ESL classes. |
Interestingly, some of the New York State standards for ESL are the same as those for ELA.
It just seems to me that ESL and foreign language teachers would be the better fit because both deal with the process of language acquisition. |
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