Kate EDU 402

The presentation done by team one on ELL, or English Language Learners, really gave me a deeper understanding of the struggles that ELL students might face in a classroom that has no accommodations to help their understanding of English. I learned about a few different strategies that could help ELL students and some important tips and tricks to help their understanding and help them become more comfortable with English. I really enjoyed the work stations part of this presentation, and getting a more hands on, more personal approach to learning about ELL. I got something important out of all three of the station activities, in the math one I learned that ELL students enjoy more low risk and hands on activities to help their understanding, with the vocab station, I developed a deeper understanding of how ELL students learn vocabulary and some ideas on how to further their understanding of different vocab words and in the final station, I enjoyed learning about different ways to not iso...

I loved this presentation and definitely learned a lot about alternative schools that I didn’t know prior to coming into class today. My only real knowledge of alternative schools before I came into class today was a brief knowledge of a couple of the different kinds of alternative schools. I didn’t know exactly how diverse the options of alternative schools were, so that was really cool to learn about. For example, I didn’t know that there were specific schools designed for students who might have mental illnesses or struggle with addiction where they get to meet with therapists, and I thought that was really cool. I also had never really thought about how homeschooling was an alternative “school”, same goes for schools that are on military bases for students who have parents in the service. My favorite part of this presentation was probably the buzzfeed quiz, one because it was fun and the questions were entertaining, but also because, I had never really thought about what kind o...