Diane
teaches ELL (English Language Learner) classes. She has groups of pull-out
students that come into her classroom. Others, she pushes-in to the general
education classroom to assist the students. Diane attended NIU (twice) – once
for computer science, the second time for elementary education. She was a
substitute teacher for a year and took over an ELL position for seven months
when a teacher left that district.
Diane tries
to use a variety of hands-on activities to engage her students. Any way she can
connect a topic to them personally, she finds it especially effective. She has
a Promethean board in her classroom and would like to learn as much as she can
to be able to utilize it as another way to engage students. Also to help
students focus on specific vocabulary in a text, Diane uses small colored transparent
post-it notes to identify these words. (SEE PHOTO BELOW)
Diane has an
eleven year-old daughter who is in 5th grade. When her daughter talks
about her school day, Diane of course pays close attention. She does this not only as a way to know what her daughter is
up to in school, but also to see if she
can tweak the activities her daughter talks about and use them in her classroom.
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