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We are now into the second half of the year and I am trying to gather some good info to give my school district to solve our problems with our ELL program. I was hired this year as the first ELL teacher in the district. I am brand new at teaching ELL. The district has had 5 tutors who helped the stu...

Cgage, you are so right. I think we all are learnng this year. Senorita Daniels, thanks for your comments. You make a lot of great points. I am pretty ok right now with my place in the system, and what changes I can possibly make for next year. I am doing the best I can right now to a little bit of ...

Thanks, Ann. I think part of the problem has been that there has been confusion over what a tutor does and what an ELL teacher does (from the administration down). The tutors are excellent. They just don't happen to be certified in ELL. A lot of the time instead of just working on the classwork, the...

Hi...I don't think I was clear in my post. Part of my frustration comes from knowing that much more goes on in the ELL classroom than merely conversational English. I don't know why one would go to school and become trained as an ESL/ELL teacher if it were only about what the children could pick up ...

PLEASE HELP !!! I just wanted to see if anyone had a word of advice for me. I am a brand new ELL teacher in the US. I have been hired by a district that has, for the last 5 years, only had Spanish speaking tutors. These tutors are highly qualified and have done a great job. For some reason the dist...

Hi Stephanie,
I just remembered a curriculum that I am going to order. Another teacher recommended the Oxford Picture Dictionary and the workbooks/CD's that can come with it.

I also received a demo of the Rosetta Stone software. It looks great.

Take care,
Laurie

Hi Stephanie, I thought I was the only one in this situation. I am not at as many schools as you are. My kids are coming to me from four different schools. I teach K-12 newcomers (some who speak English and are coming to me because they only scored emergent on the Stanford, and some who are total be...