English Language Learning

Building an ELL Program from Scratch.

Reference                     : Monterrey, S. (2019). Building an ELL program from scratch.
                                        Retrieved 3^rd oct from https://edutpia.org.

Summary

In order to provide an English language learning program for students in a school, there are five points suggested by the Monterrey. It is based on her experience teaching about to 70 students in North High School in Southeast Wisconsin. In fact, the students took the bilingual study skill class with the lack of accommodation support. The steps are as follow:

1.        Watch and listen. It is important to do evaluation before starting the ELL program. We can start by evaluating the school’s resource and the student needs. The evaluation should be done continuously or every year to find out the impact of the program.

2.        Decide the suitable structure. We can find out the appropriate program by referring to the evaluation result as we already find out the limitation that our school has.

3.        Support other teachers. The support can be in the form of paying attention to the staff and their need related to teaching ELL students, doing collaboration with the counselor and ELL teachers to conceive schedules, emerging a good relation between ELL teachers and the content teachers, and helping teachers to know student needs and their language proficiency levels.

4.        Create a welcoming environment. It is important to make students feel comfortable with their environment. For instance, spreading a welcoming poster around the school, and offering additional such classes for the students as emotional and academic class.

5.        Don’t forget the family. Having a strong relationship with the family will ease the way to make the program becoming successful so that we should arrange a meeting with parents every month.

Those are things that we can follow for successfully running an ELL program and to give support for the students. In fact, a good collaboration and relationship with those people around and the parents are important.