Using technology with English Language learners is so beneficial. Before teaching 2nd grade as a classroom teacher, I was an ESL teacher for a few years. I used technology to teach vocabulary words. I would introduce vocabulary words and gave students a Google slide template to fill in with definitions, synonyms, and a picture to represent the word. I taught students how to safely look for pictures and words on the internet. We then compared students' work and discussed the similarities and differences. It helped deepen students' understanding of the word and was great discussion when more complex words had multiple meanings. I would then print the slides out and post them on our word wall for students to refer to later. An idea I had to make it more organized and accessible, would be to create a blog or online way of accessing all these slides with ease. I could see this being done with math vocabulary as well. Students could represent math words in a blog and students could share their work with others. By creating the representation, it deepens students own understanding and by looking at their classmates' representations, it expands their understanding of the words. Love your ideas! - Jordan Ebel
Using technology with English Language learners is so beneficial. Before teaching 2nd grade as a classroom teacher, I was an ESL teacher for a few years. I used technology to teach vocabulary words. I would introduce vocabulary words and gave students a Google slide template to fill in with definitions, synonyms, and a picture to represent the word. I taught students how to safely look for pictures and words on the internet. We then compared students' work and discussed the similarities and differences. It helped deepen students' understanding of the word and was great discussion when more complex words had multiple meanings. I would then print the slides out and post them on our word wall for students to refer to later. An idea I had to make it more organized and accessible, would be to create a blog or online way of accessing all these slides with ease.
ReplyDeleteI could see this being done with math vocabulary as well. Students could represent math words in a blog and students could share their work with others. By creating the representation, it deepens students own understanding and by looking at their classmates' representations, it expands their understanding of the words. Love your ideas! - Jordan Ebel