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Thank you! I had one of my friends from college who graduated in Deaf Studies/Interpretation send me a book of basic signs. It's helping pretty well. It was found that she does have Selective Mutism. I am happy to report that she is lauging out loud in class now, and has even began (just this week) ...

This is my first year of teaching ESL (or anything for that matter!!) I currently teach 1-7th grade ESL, but am certified K-12. I am tutoring now with the ABE with my county. I was tutoring only for a factory that is having to lay-off several employees (so they hired me to teach their hispanic popul...

Ive heard of each of those! My assistant has some of the Rosetta stone cds, but she's only with me for a couple of hours a day before going to work with another ELL teacher. So I should probably order some myself.
Let me know how the Oxford curriculum is!

Stephanie

Im so glad to know that I am not the only one in a situation like this! I will let you know if I hear any good tips as well! My principal came up to me and asked me if I had any specific curriculum to go by. That made me even more nervous knowing that they didnt have one for me. I guess I will have ...

Thank you so much for your response! I am first meeting with the speech teacher to determine if there is any physical reason for her not speaking. I am going to meet with her parents next. I still cannot believe that she made it through all of last year with no verbal communication and no one thus f...

This is my first year teaching and I am having total trouble with scheduling ELL. I thought I had worked everything out but none of the teachers are happy with it (this is only at 2 of the schools at which I teach). The problem is in the fact that I am only available to these students from 8am-11am....

First of all thank you for the response! The answers to those questions were: Yes. There are some other ELL teachers in the county that have kind of taken me under their wings. However, they are at schools other than my 7. I am the sole ELL teacher for these 7. No. No. No. and Yes. I wasnt given rea...

Hello! My name is Stephanie and I have recently began my first teaching job with E.L.L. (or any teaching job for that matter). The system that I have worked with for the past 4 years (including all my practicum and student teaching) was one in which all the students were in a central location. Now, ...