Needed - Innovative ideas for teaching English Language Learners

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Permalink Reply by Chelsea Newberry on August 19, 2009 at 4:27pm

You could try a classroom response system. It is an interactive, hand-held "clicker" device that allows you to ask questions to your class and get real-time feedback with a graph that shows instantaneous class progress. You can use this in the middle of a lecture, a supplement to your lecture, quizzes, attendance, or simply for polling purposes.

Many times, this type of classroom technology can be funded through a grant. It is exactly the type of educational technology President Obama wants to fund through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (specifically ---> http://www.ed.gov/programs/edtech/factsheet.html).

I, personally, know that H-ITT (Hyper-Interactive Teaching Technology) makes one of the most cost-effective, versatile, easy to use and fully functional packages for this purpose. They can integrate with your any teaching style... bringing in a whole new level to your teaching strategy!

If you'd like, I can certainly give you more information and/or get you set up with a H-ITT representative who can even let you demo the product for 60 days... at NO charge to you. It's no doubt this will be in EVERY classroom in the near future for educational heightening.

Feel free to contact me, anytime, cnewberr@mail.usf.edu. I support the growth of every aspect of education as I am a recent college graduate myself supporting educational enhancement.

Good Luck!! :-)

Chelsea

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Nielsen on August 19, 2009 at 5:02pm

Hi Chelsea,

I am quite familiar with the technology in fact I recently wrote about how educators can get the benefit of what devices such as those have to offer without actually having to purchase anything in my post The Why, What, and How of Getting the Benefits of Student Response ... .

I apologize, but your response doesn't seem to be answering my question, but rather it sounds like you are pushing a system. While I certainly welcome feedback from a vendor or someone who just happens to be pushing a product they love, I would appreciate feedback that goes beyond the "what" and to the "how" can this or other tools be used to engage English Language Learners? If you could provide me with ideas for that, I would find your feedback quite helpful and would be most appreciative.

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Permalink Reply by Faiza Khan on September 2, 2009 at 1:02am

Hi, I have a collection of fun, short and simple vocabulary videos at www.WordAhead.com These have worked wonders with a lot of students. You may want to check out the following widget.

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Permalink Reply by Faiza Khan on September 2, 2009 at 1:10am

Some teachers have actually engaged their students in learning difficult English words by assigning word projects to the students. One such example is here:


Teachers can also make their own wordlists and embed their personalized wordlist widget (like the one shown above) in their blog or site.
I hope you find this information useful.
Faiza

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Permalink Reply by Denise Stewart on February 21, 2010 at 5:44pm

Check out the following links to Dr. Mora's materials:

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/jmora



http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/jmora/MoraModules/Default.htm

Also, the webcasts at http://www.colorincolorado.org/ are outstanding. I use them in my teacher training classes and online.

I also have my own website with awesome instructional supports for teachers of ELLs. In the 14 months the site has been up, I have received over 3,000 visits from the US and 22 other countries.

www.ellteacherpros.com

My blog is new though and I am still trying to figure out how it works:)

www.teachingsuccesseswithells.blogspot.com

Denise:)

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