TELL Specialist M1:Task 4

Choose 1 of the 3 questions below to answer. In order to respond to your chosen question, incorporate the learning materials reviewed, conduct research, visit a school and/or interview an ESL teacher. Also, be sure to share any personal insight and/or experiences of your own in your response.


Question 1: What are some areas from the videos and reading that resonate with you in regards to how you support ELLs?

Question 2: What are some implications or challenges that educators should be aware of when implementing specific strategies to support programming?

Question 3: Create a report to your school that emphasizes areas that you think need to be addressed and strategies that can be used for teachers to support their ELLs.

Q3: Student Support Needs

Proposal for Teacher Support Block

Name: Carmelo Bono

Grade level: 9-12

School: ANON

Purpose: To improve the overall confidence of TELL students when speaking in classrooms. Many students have the ability to speak well, but do not write well. Although many students can speak well, they are nervous to share their opinions openly in conversational circles and class participation activities because they are afraid they may not say something to the level matching the class pace. Many students who are speaking well and writing poorly are also students who are not speaking English outside of their TELL classroom settings. These opportunities are crucial for students to make verbal and written word connections (holistic immersion).

Reason: Students are not using the language they are learning in class and need a place to actively share their spoken English skills.

Potential Action: 1 day a week hosting a MANDATORY speaker workshop for TELL students in which peer mentors and/or teachers can come in for 30 minutes after school (in lieu/as a part of office hours and provide spoken English opportunities in regards to their progress throughout the week/day). This could be done in different ways based on the rapport of the student and mentor. But essentially this is a volunteer opportunity by mentors and growth area for TELL students to continually improve in conversational English speaking confidence.