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By Lisa
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First of all, shouldn't you already have some documentation on these kids? Look in their records or ask someone- if they've been at the school there should be test scores sitting around somewhere! If for some reason there| is no documentation, you need to test these kids somehow to find out their level! Some ESL kids speak no English, some are fine tuning, and some in the upper grades probably have good English skills but are low academically. These are all very different needs and you need to adjust for them! As for who to pull out when...first you need to look at your students. You don't want to | |
divide strictly by English level, because then you'll have 5th graders with kindergarteners, and the 5th graders will HATE that! If you can, keep them by grade level and see if you can work with all of them effectively. What might work if you have a range of abilities is to maybe group off into pairs- K-1, 2-3, 4-5. Then you could have one group of stronger English speakers in one and one group of lesser English speakers in the other. Since you have K-5, I imagine you don't have the time to break up each grade level into smaller pull out groups. If you could find that time it would be great. I knew an ESL teacher who was able to do that (she had 1-4 not K-5 though). So she had 2 second grade groups and 2 first grade groups. One comment about teachers- I know how uncooperative they are! I know teachers who have requested not to have ESL kids because it bugs them that those kids miss part of class. Just remember that you have a job, and an important one! Do what you need to do, and you'll be fine! Good luck! Lisa, bilingual teacher
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