Systematic ELD Work Examples

One good thing about working during the summer is . . . I get to see my friends and start thinking about next year.  The iPad will continue to be a huge focus for me as I integrate them more with my ELD students. After presenting at the 2012 Palm Springs CUE about Mobile Learning for ELs, I have found a small but passionate group of educators who want to use more technology with their EL students during ELD instruction. I am planning to create iBook ELD portfolios for my students in hopes that it will become useful at our site and in our district. Assessments are always helpful, but having a digital portfolio to show the stages of growth will be a great benefit for our teachers and the students themsevles to monitor their progress and pinpoint areas of need. Some students struggle more with writing, especially in the higher levels of language acquisition, so a collection of student writing samples is always useful.  In addition to writing, the ePorfolio/iBook will also include videos, and audio recording to demonstrate listening, speaking, and reading skills necessary for reclassification.  Here are some samples of student created work that will be placed in ePortfolios/iBooks.

For the last two years I have had the priviledge to work with the beginning and early intermediate level students. They have been a joy to work with and they love working with iPads.

Obviously they are still learning the proper gramatical forms of English, but they are writing and speaking in complete sentences. They also enjoy coming to ELD and sometimes that is the hardest part of teaching ELD, the students don't want to be there. Using the iPads has really motivated the students to come and get to my room early.