Educational Issues: ELL

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 isolate students in their classrooms.

Overall, I really enjoyed this presentation and I learned a lot about different ELL strategies and the way that ELL students learn and interact with the teachers and other students in the classroom. As the graphic showed, every state has some sort of percentage of ELL students, so chances are, no matter where you end up, you’re going to have some students with some sort of language barrier, so these tips and tricks will come in very handy.