Today i had the opportunity to work with my ELL student on a lesson that was being taught in her geography class. the assignment required that she be able to read sections from the book and answer questions that pertained to the section. as we went through the lesson she read some and i read some of the sections. at the end of each section and also as i went through the material i answered and clarified any misunderstanding that she had. my little buddy was able to do a large amount of the work with minimal assistance. we made it through at least half of the lesson. she answered all the questions asked about the sections and we also did a recap of some of the things that was discussed in the preassessment portion of the assignment, she was much more at ease when answering these questions after reading some of the sections.
In this lesson I found myself using some of the the things that have been stressed through out the semester. with my little buddy because she was absent the day the assignment was given out, it gave me the opportunity to really teach and her learn the material. she didn’t know much about the material so the pre assessment portion was a slow process but i didn’t push her because i didn’t want up to put up a filter on me because then we would have accomplished nothing instead we just moved on and worked on the parts that she was comfortable doing and did some reading which would help her better understand the material and as a wrap up i decided to go back to the pre assessment lesson and asked her to elaborate more on it now since she had read the material and we had talked about it, and this time she was at great ease and even asked some really good questions about the subject matter.
as a result of this lesson i was able to get a better feel of what working with an ELL student is like. of course there are things I would have done differently but over all it went well. If i would have had more time i would have allowed for her to do more of the reading to help her with her speaking and reading, i will also in the future learn to speak more Bics which i think will greatly improve my relationship with my ELL students. overall great experience
