No Series: The Multilingual Classroom

The Multilingual Classroom

Lesson Objective: Observe a variety of strategies to support English Language Learners

All Subjects / All Grades / ELL

14 MIN

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Note how a literacy objective can easily be developed based on the content objective See how Mr. Tran combines kinesthetic and verbalization techniques to help students with punctuation Try the "character hats" activity to help students with language development?

9 Comments

Paige Klumpe Sep 13, 2022 1:50pm

This video shows different ways to incorporate multi-language children into the classroom. They explain how to teach all of the children, at once, and how to not disclude. For example, when teaching English, teach all the students at the same time so they are all learning. So even the students who don't speak English start to learn it. They talk about the importance of respecting the student's home language. This relates to SEL because it talks about social awareness and the importance of incorporating different languages in the classroom.

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Sherry Short Sep 7, 2017 8:03pm

I love the uniqueness and simplicity of all three techniques! The student focus is incredible and it works!! Thank you!

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Jessalyn Lofton Jan 24, 2016 11:34pm

I think this is a great video to show to new teachers because it can give us an idea. I like that this video gives us the view point of teachers and the students. I like that the teachers gives us an insight on the classroom and how the children interact with the activities. I also like that this video is from students who are diverse and they learn differently.

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tracey shaw Jun 1, 2015 5:18pm

Tracey Shaw June 1. 2015 4:14 p.m. The Multilingual classroom is a wonderful video full of opportunities for ell students to flourish in the classroom. I learned that it takes 7-10 years for the student to become academically fluent. You must combine kinesthetic learning with verbalization to impact the students. In the classroom there must be an emphasis on speaking and listening to the language. Speaking frames can be used with young children to incorporate voice inflection in reading. I love the idea of "character hats" I want to try this in my classroom. I wonder how a student new to this country could best be taught when entering the elementary enviornment.

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Kevin Culleton Jul 31, 2014 1:18pm

Beautiful video. Some fantastic teaching going on in htose clases. I myself teach EFL, but this video has inspired me, Thanks.

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Summary

Teachers at St. Stephen's Primary School in Newham, London, use a range of classroom techniques to teach the curriculum to

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Summary

Teachers at St. Stephen's Primary School in Newham, London, use a range of classroom techniques to teach the curriculum to children who speak English as an additional language.
Anne Clayden, EAL coordinator, stresses the importance of giving children with EAL lots of opportunities for speaking and listening. She also highlights the need to model the language they require and to allow other children to do the same.
The children also get the chance to work in their home language. Nicola Coupland uses reading examples and peer modelling to encourage her Year 2 class to act out the roles in the story "Amazing Grace".
Tam Van Tran uses the guise of a Kung Fu grand master to help his Year 6 class hone their punctuation skills, while Ken Davies has his Year 5 class dressing up and wearing hats from around the world to inspire their descriptive writing.

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