Analyzing the Implementation of ELL Strategies

Application: Analyzing the Implementation of ELL Strategies
Throughout this course, you have explored multiple perspectives and learned strategies for teaching culturally, linguistically, and socioeconomically diverse students. For this assignment, you will demonstrate your learning by analyzing and evaluating these practices in action. To complete this assignment, follow the steps below:
1. View the entire "Strategies on Video DVD," which accompanies your course text, 50 Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners. While viewing, consider what you have learned during the course as it relates to the characteristics of effective teaching practices that meet the needs of diverse students.

2. After viewing the DVD in its entirety, choose one strategy/teaching vignette that made an impression on you. View that segment again, using the Teaching Practices on DVD Analysis Sheet (below) to help you gather and organize your thoughts as you critically analyze the vignette with regard to the pedagogical standards and practices you learned throughout this course. Stop the video as necessary to fill in the Analysis Sheet as instructed below. (You do NOT need to submit the Analysis Sheet.)
? Click here for the Teaching Practices on DVD Analysis Sheet

? Complete the Analysis Sheet as follows:

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o Identify evidence in the vignette of the practices/characteristics listed in the first column of the Analysis Sheet.
o Make notes in the second column about what specifically you heard or observed in the lesson that provides evidence of these practices/characteristics and their effectiveness in this particular lesson with these particular students. Pay attention to the teacher?s reflection after the lesson with regard to his or her instructional planning and decision making.
o Write down comments, questions, and reactions about the practices/characteristics evident in the lesson – noting strengths and weaknesses in the lesson, making connections with educational research and theory, and offering suggestions, if applicable, for how the teacher might further refine his or her lesson
With these thoughts in mind, write a brief analysis of the lesson you have chosen, explaining in what ways it exemplifies the characteristics of effective practices for educating culturally and linguistically diverse students. In your analysis, also include any suggestions you might make for enhancing the lesson. Be sure to reference at least two to three of the practices/characteristics from the Analysis Sheet, your specific observations from the lesson, and educational theory/research to support your ideas. (Assignment length: 2?3 pages)