Software/Website Title: NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) ELL Website for Secondary Students
Website URL: http://www.ncte.org/collections/secell
Grade/Age Level: Middle and High School targets… Adults, too.
Language & Content: English Lesson Plan Strategies and Suggestions
The NCTE site is a wealth of ELL teacher resources. NCTE is a very large professional organization for English teachers… I think of it in the States, but this online presence makes them very international! This is one of hundreds of pages on their site, but it is specifically focused on the ELL secondary classroom. There are three columns of links to articles and sample lessons: teaching strategies, professional readings, and related resources. The most attractive aspect of this site is that NCTE’s staff has acted as an “aggregator” of current publications in a variety of professional journals that would take an unwieldy amount of time to sift through as an individual. I spent most of my time perusing the teaching strategy articles, a collection of recently published ELL teaching ideas. The variety of resources was impressive including ideas for guiding students metacognitively into using 4 strategies for spelling success and an article detailing a unit on having students update local/traditional idioms into modern, and more familiar, language. These ideas seem ready to be incorporated with minor adjustments for your local situation. The second column is a bit more dry… professional readings on a variety of ELL topics regarding the ultimate creation of an ideal ELL environment. These are useful as well, but they are more like a textbook than teachers’ resource book. The third column is a mixture of extra resources, including several that are plugs for books and other products. This seems like a great place for both beginning and experienced ELL teachers. Enjoy.
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3 comments:
NCTE is definately a great organization and a great professional resource.
Is there anything about the site that you would improve?
Dan
Well, the site columns aren't labelled, so you have to figure out what they are about. It would be awesome if they had links to wikisites that would allow the users to contribute to the ideas and plans described in the articles.
I am so new to this ELL idea that it is hard for me to make evaluations on the content they offer or the way they arrange it!
Doug
I think that you would be surprised at what you can evaluate :) Oftentimes, our first impressions are very telling, especially where design is concerned
Dan
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