Originally posted on April 19, 2013 for Colorin Colorado by Diane Staehr Fenner In last week’s post, guest blogger Ayanna Cooper shared some highlights of the Office of English Language Acquisition’s pre-conference session at the National Science Teachers Association’s conference in San Antonio, Texas. In this week’s post, I will take a…
Originally posted April 12, 2013 on Colorin Colorado by Ayanna Cooper In this post, guest blogger Ayanna Cooper shares some of the discussion focused on ELLs from the National Science Teachers Association’s annual conference. Imagine a classroom where English learners are being cognitively challenged while developing science knowledge and English language simultaneously. A…
Originally posted March 28, 2013 on Colorin Colorado by Diane Staehr Fenner While at the TESOL convention last week, I learned of a well-attended presentation titled “Taking on Mathematics: How the CCSS can work for ELLs.” The interactive, manipulative-based workshop focused on engaging ELLs in mathematics while highlighting key areas of…
Originally posted March 12, 2013 on Colorin Colorado by Diane Staehr Fenner In President Obama’s most recent State of the Union Address, he indicated a need to offer preschool for all children, a notion which has been embraced by many educators. In addition to this increased urgency to prepare all children for…
Originally posted February 22, 2013 on Colorin Colorado by Diane Staehr Fenner This post is my second of two about how the shifts of the English Language Arts CCSS are playing out in classrooms with ELLs. My first post was about teaching informational text to ELLs, and this post will…
Diane Staehr Fenner / September 11, 2012 Forty-six states have adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), but few have fully executed and practices to assist English Learners reach those standards. This disconnect poses a number of challenges for English as a Second Language (ESL) and general education teachers as…
