Overview In the reflection below, I examine an incident I encountered while tutoring and eighth-grade student and describe what this incident taught me about how young teen’s desire to explore and further define their identities impacts the way they engage with subject-area content. Applying my learnings from the experience on which I reflect, I present …
Overview In this paper, I discuss how a classroom context wherein I am fortunate enough to work with a co-teacher would impact my approach to lesson planning and instruction. Specifically, I discuss how collaborative teaching can support multilingual learners. Collaborative Lesson Planning and Instruction After reading Honigsfeld’s and Dove’s (2015) co-teaching and collaboration articles and …
Overview In this reflection, I discuss how the knowledge I gained about Second Language Acquisition through completing my Masters of Education program will influence how I differentiate instruction to support students acquiring English as an additional language. I describe Carlos, a student I met while volunteering in an academic intervention program, and discuss how my …
To plan lessons that bridge students’ strengths with content-area concepts, I create learner profiles that consider students’ experiencial, social, linguistic, cultural, and academic assets. I find asset-based profiles a useful tool in classrooms with culturally and linguistically diverse student populations. The ability to read across profiles and consider profiles alongside lesson objectives helps me choose …
In the below paper, I describe a reading comprehension observation, evaluation, and analysis I performed to develop strategies to help a student reading below grade-level better access, comprehend, and perform higher-order thinking activities on course texts. The student I worked with had previously progressed out of ESL programming, but the tactics I outline are appropriate …