5. Your Feedback

What about this course did you find most helpful?  What suggestions would you make?  What questions do you still have?

4. Sheltering Instruction

After today's activity, what are your thoughts on sheltering content for the ELLs in your class?  Do you feel that your curriculum can accommodate language goals as well as content goals?  Can you shelter instruction for your ELLs while meeting the needs of your native-English-speaking students?

3. Provoking Student Talk

What does your mentor teacher do to facilitate or inhibit student talk?  What steps will you take to generate substantive academic language use among students?

2. Analyzing Your Classroom

What about your particular classroom will be the most challenging for ELLs?  Consider your mentor's instructional style and your own, as well as your instructional materials and the overall academic and social dynamics of the class.

1. Accessing Texts

What features of the text sample might pose challenges to English language learners?  Consider high-level vocabulary as well as idiomatic expressions, common words used in unusual ways, and complex sentence structures