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Equipping ELLs

Beth Vaucher, ELL, ESL Teachers

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Frequency: 1 episode/7d. Total Eps: 143

Equipping ELLs is a podcast for ESL specialists and homeroom teachers who are looking for effective and engaging ways to support their English Language Learners without adding to their endless to-do list. Each week you’ll hear tips, strategies, and inspirational stories that will empower you to better reach your ELL students, equip them with life-long skills, and strengthen relationships with colleagues and parents. Your host, Beth Vaucher, is an ESL certified homeroom teacher with over 10 years of experience teaching in the US and internationally. Learn more at www.inspiringyounglearners.com.

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🇨🇦 Canada - languageLearning
06/09/2024
#89
🇨🇦 Canada - languageLearning
05/09/2024
#77
🇨🇦 Canada - languageLearning
04/09/2024
#94

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142. Empowering General Ed Teachers: Practical Tips to Support ELLs with Risa Woods

Episode 142

Friday, August 30, 2024 • Duration 31:00

How can homeroom teachers effectively support multilingual learners using best practices?

In this enlightening episode of the Equipping ELLs podcast, we dive into essential tips for homeroom teachers to prepare their classrooms, specifically tailored for those teaching English Language Learners. We welcome to the show Risa Woods, who shares practical strategies that will help you create an inclusive and effective learning space for all students. Discover how to organize materials, incorporate visuals, and implement routines that support the unique needs of ELLs. This episode is packed with actionable advice to ensure you're ready to empower all students, fostering success from day one.

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141. Equitable Grading Strategies for ELLs with Guest, Esperanza "Macky" Wickert

Episode 141

Friday, August 23, 2024 • Duration 42:16

How do I implement equitable grading practices for my English language learners?

In this episode of Equipping ELLs, we are joined by special guest Esperanza 'Macky' Wickert, an expert in the field, who shares invaluable insights and practical strategies for fair and effective assessment. Discover how to navigate common challenges, ensure accurate representation of your students' abilities, and promote a more inclusive learning environment. Tune in for actionable tips and real-life examples that will help you transform your grading practices and better support your ELL students!

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132. Empowering Educators, Empowering ELLs: Kavita Mahendra's Journey from Hyderabad, India to ESL Excellence in the U.S.

Episode 132

Friday, June 21, 2024 • Duration 32:42

In this episode of the Equipping ELLs podcast, host Beth Vaucher interviews Kavita Mahendra, sharing her inspiring journey from Hyderabad, India, to ESL excellence in the U.S.

Kavita reminisces about her multicultural childhood in Hyderabad and discusses the importance of embracing home languages. She sheds light on India's linguistic diversity and the significance of Hindi and English in uniting the nation. Kavita's personal experiences highlight the value of multilingualism and cultural identity in ELL education. Furthermore, she shares her transition to teaching ESL in the U.S., emphasizing the importance of unlearning and adapting instructional approaches. Kavita's passion for empowering educators and her impactful ESL initiatives in schools showcase her dedication to ELL success. This insightful conversation provides valuable tips for ESL teachers, emphasizing the importance of visibility, connection, and personalized student support. Tune in to hear Kavita Mahendra's teaching journey, and we know you'll leave inspired along your own!

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42. How to Have Fun with Phonics with Guest Aylin Claahsen

Episode 42

Friday, September 30, 2022 • Duration 33:12

Disclaimer: the audio for this episode is not the best, but the content is so great that we still want you to hear it!

There is a huge shift in how schools are teaching reading. They are moving away from Guided Reading and moving towards Science of Reading with a focus on phonics and phonemic awareness. Today, Aylin Claahsen is joining us to share her expertise on teaching younger students early literacy skills.

Ensuring that our ELLs are receiving the best literacy instruction we can give them is so important and Aylin is sharing so much helpful information with us! We are covering what the difference between phonemic awareness and phonics is, where to begin with phonemic awareness and phonics instruction, how literacy instruction is changing with the shift to Science of Reading, and fun and engaging ways to teach phonics.

Aylin is a certified reading specialist, literacy consultant and curriculum designer who loves sharing literacy tips for teaching readers. Specializing in Kindergarten-5th Grade, she can be found sharing literacy tips on her blog or social media at Literacy with Aylin Claahsen, or in her newsletter. Aylin has a huge passion for small group instruction as she’s seen the impact it has on readers of all ability levels. Writing engaging passages is one way that Aylin gets to connect with students and teachers all around the world. She believes that building confidence in readers is one of the most important things teachers can do.

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41. Rethinking the Way We Teach Sight Words with Leslie Tomanovich

Episode 41

Friday, September 23, 2022 • Duration 35:35

Reading can be a challenge for many students and it can be especially difficult for our ELL students. That’s why it is so important to systematically work on sight words with our students. Leslie Tomanovich is joining us today to share her experience and wisdom on teaching sight words to our ELL students.

When it comes to reading, we want to find ways to reduce the cognitive load and frustration for our students. Sight words play a huge role in that. In today’s episode, Leslie and I are discussing the importance of sight words for our ELL students, the difference between sight words and high frequency words, effective techniques for teaching sight words, what orthographic mapping is and why it’s great for reading instruction, and Leslie’s routine for teaching sight words in her lessons.

Leslie is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to teaching sight words and phonics to ELLs and she is sharing so much information with us today! Don’t forget to check out the sight word resource we’ve put together if you’re interested in seeing more of her routine and how to make sight word practice work for your students this year!

Leslie Tomanovich has been teaching ELLs for over 10 years. She lives and works in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. She works with grades K-4, but specializes in the primary grades. Leslie has developed multi-modal sight word instructional routines and materials that are used by many teachers in her school district. She lives and works in the Finger Lakes region of New York State.

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40. Easy Ways to Incorporate SEL with Our ELLs with Guest Rachel Davis

Episode 40

Friday, September 16, 2022 • Duration 22:47

Working with our ELL students on social emotional learning is so important now more than ever. Between virtual learning, the pandemic, and any traumatic experiences they may have been through, they may need help with coping skills and that is where SEL comes in. Today, we are getting some wonderful insight about the importance of SEL from our guest, Rachel Davis.

Rachel is sharing all about social emotional learning. We are talking about the importance of SEL, easy to implement tips for incorporating SEL into the classroom, SEL lesson ideas, and how to support students who have been through trauma. Rachel has so much knowledge on SEL and helping students with their emotions and she is sharing tons of info with us so we can best help our ELLs!

Rachel is the school counselor and curriculum designer behind Bright Futures Counseling. With nearly a decade of experience, a highly rated school counseling podcast, and an engaged online community, Rachel is passionate about helping school counselors increase their impact and advocate for their role. She resides in Costa Rica, and when she’s not working on her business you can find her at the beach playing with her toddler son!

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39. How to Lesson Plan for ELLs Using Language Forms and Functions with Guest Kristen Vibas

Episode 39

Friday, September 9, 2022 • Duration 33:59

Have you ever thought about trying out a different lesson planning process? Planning units and lessons based on language forms and functions may be a method that could really benefit your ELLs! Today, I have special guest, Kristen Vibas, joining us to talk about how she plans her lessons around different language functions and forms.

In this episode, Kristen is giving us an inside look at what her role and lesson planning process looks like. She is sharing what her role in a very large district looks like, what she focuses on the first month of school,how she communicates with parents, and how she plans her instruction utilizing language forms and functions.

Kristen Vibas is a K-6 elementary ESOL teacher living in Northern Virginia. She’s been teaching multilingual learners since 2005 in one of the country’s largest school districts. She enjoys each grade level, but is particularly fond of working with upper elementary newcomers. Kristen also loves creating educational resources that support English language development. She opened her TpT store, called “Kristen Vibas,” in 2012, and shortly afterwards started a blog called “A Walk in the Chalk.”

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38. 5 Ways to Use Assessment to Drive Action

Episode 38

Friday, September 2, 2022 • Duration 28:19

It seems like our ELL students are constantly taking assessments. They take them with us, for core classes, benchmarks, and the list goes on!

But are these assessments helping to drive our instruction or are they just wasting time? Today, we are diving into how to better assess students authentically so that we can adjust our instruction to meet our students’ needs.

We want our assessments to be more than just the mandatory state assessments. We want them to give us great insight so we can turn them into action. In this episode, we are looking at 5 different ways we can authentically assess our ELLs, why assessing in these ways is important, and ideas and tips on how to implement these assessments in your classroom.

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To access all resources mentioned in this episode, head to the show notes: https://www.inspiringyounglearners.com/assessment-to-drive-action

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37. Simple Classroom Management Tips for ELLs

Episode 37

Friday, August 26, 2022 • Duration 30:03

We all know that classroom management is crucial for a smooth school year. But where do you even start with classroom management, especially when you aren’t a homeroom teacher? Today, we are diving into how to get started with easy-to-implement strategies to help you have great classroom management this year!

Classroom management begins with building relationships and trust with your students. In this episode, we are talking about the importance of having clear expectations, how to get your students to really buy into the classroom rules, why you should explicitly teach expectations, and how to implement the behavior side of classroom management. We want our students to thrive and strong relationships, clear expectations, and involvement in classroom agreements are all great ways to help our students!

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To access all resources mentioned in this episode, head to the show notes: https://www.inspiringyounglearners.com/classroom-management-tips

36. The Most Important Place to Start This School Year with Guest Sindy Bonilla

Episode 36

Friday, August 19, 2022 • Duration 30:32

As we head into the start of another school year, we want to make sure that we are creating a welcoming place for our ELLs and newcomers right away. There always seems to be pressure to get started with assessments and lessons but it is so important to slow down the first few weeks of school. Sindy Bonilla is joining us today to talk about how she starts the school year so her students and families feel welcomed and safe.

Today, we are talking about slowing down and creating a place of safety and comfort for ELL students. Sindy is sharing why building relationships with both students and parents is important, tips for building strong relationships starting day one, activities she loves to do the first couple weeks, and advice for working with refugee students and their families.

Sindy Bonilla is an ESL & Spanish teacher for students K-8 in NJ. She has been teaching ELLs for 6 years. Sindy has worked with the International Rescue Committee to support and provide ESL instruction to refugee newcomers.

Sindy is currently a student at Rowan University where she is working on her supervisor certification and completing a dual language certification program online with UCSanDiego. Sindy enjoys working with ELLs in the community and with their families. In her free time, Sindy enjoys watching sports and practicing yoga.

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