Elevating Peer Learning to Foster Multilingual Learners’ Oral Language Development and Content Understanding Picture walking into a classroom and observing a teacher is leading a whole class discussion where they ask a series of questions and several of the same students raise their hands to respond. Then, imagine walking into…
SupportEd to host webinar on ML oral language development Watch the webinar replay Peer Learning: Fostering Multilingual Learners’ (MLs’) Oral Language Development and Content Understanding. FAIRFAX, VA — SupportEd is hosting a free webinar titled Peer Learning: Fostering Multilingual Learners’ (MLs’) Oral Language Development and Content Understanding. The interactive webinar…
Engaging English Learners (ELs) in Academic Conversations Imagine this scene… your students are in small groups using images from a story that you recently read to discuss the story’s themes. As you kneel down to listen in on one group’s conversation, you overhear one of your quieter English learners say…
By Diane Staehr Fenner and Sydney Snyder / Originally published on the Colorin Colorado website / November 17, 2014 In our last post, we shared information about the new Teaching Channel ELL series based on Academic Conversations (2011) by Jeff Zwiers and Marie Crawford featuring related classroom videos developed in partnership…
By Diane Staehr Fenner and Sydney Snyder / Originally published on the Colorin Colorado website / October 8, 2014 In the first two posts in our series about using Socratic Circles (or Socratic Seminars) with English language learners (ELLs), we provided an overview of the activity and its objectives and offered…
By Diane Staehr Fenner / Originally published on the Colorin Colorado website / October 8, 2014 In Part I of our series on Socratic circles and English language learners (ELLs), we provided you with an explanation of what Socratic circles are, how they’re relevant in the Common Core, and some…
