Comments by Louise Bauso Most recent public comments by Louise Bauso https://nowcomment.com/users/12842 This is so interesting! But doesn't surprise me. https://nowcomment.com/documents/285315?scroll_to=2536048 https://nowcomment.com/documents/285315?scroll_to=2536048 Wed, 01 Sep 2021 19:04:46 -0400 Yes! any way we can bring students' skills, assets, and funds of knowledge into the classroom will have a positive effect. https://nowcomment.com/documents/285315?scroll_to=2536024 https://nowcomment.com/documents/285315?scroll_to=2536024 Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:53:10 -0400 English Language Learner https://nowcomment.com/documents/285315?scroll_to=2536019 https://nowcomment.com/documents/285315?scroll_to=2536019 To be clear, ELL is the official terminology for these students, yet you will be understood when discussing them as emergent bilinguals. For reference: ELL = the person ENL = the program TESOL = the degress Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:51:21 -0400 Limited English Proficient https://nowcomment.com/documents/285315?scroll_to=2535999 https://nowcomment.com/documents/285315?scroll_to=2535999 deficit terminology, + LEP sounds like a disease. This was the term on official NYCDOE docs when I began teaching... Wed, 01 Sep 2021 18:49:39 -0400 +1 https://nowcomment.com/documents/142092?scroll_to=1990058 https://nowcomment.com/documents/142092?scroll_to=1990058 Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:33:56 -0400 No matter how much time you spend on planning and preparation, no matter how adept you are as a teacher, the process isn't complete until it's an interaction with students. https://nowcomment.com/documents/207627?scroll_to=1929033 https://nowcomment.com/documents/207627?scroll_to=1929033 I've seen this so many times when I get to reteach a unit - there's no one-size-fits-all - everything always adjusts based on the identities of everyone in the room. Tue, 07 Jul 2020 15:05:38 -0400 English acquisition https://nowcomment.com/documents/142092?scroll_to=1371080 https://nowcomment.com/documents/142092?scroll_to=1371080 It takes 1-3 years to develop social English, but 4-7 years to acquire the academic language necessary to succeed in school, esp. in terms of testing. Tue, 09 Jul 2019 15:50:05 -0400 This is useful pedagogy, culturally and also linguistically. Simply pointing out Spanish/English cognates opens up thousands of new vocabulary words to a native Spanish speaker. https://nowcomment.com/documents/142092?scroll_to=1371060 https://nowcomment.com/documents/142092?scroll_to=1371060 Tue, 09 Jul 2019 15:43:53 -0400 Deficit v. Difference https://nowcomment.com/documents/142092?scroll_to=1371026 https://nowcomment.com/documents/142092?scroll_to=1371026 Ignoring assets like language in the terminology implies a deficit perspective - these students are lacking in some way. This is in contrast to terminology like "emergent bilingual" which acknowledges, even celebrating, difference. Tue, 09 Jul 2019 15:39:21 -0400 KEY ACRONYMS https://nowcomment.com/documents/142092?scroll_to=1371025 https://nowcomment.com/documents/142092?scroll_to=1371025 TESOL Degree: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages ENL/ESL/ESOL: Program model LEP, ELL, EB = student acquiring the language Tue, 09 Jul 2019 15:37:23 -0400 I'm really partial to whole class texts - almost all the books we read are above my students' level and often outside their schema... https://nowcomment.com/documents/106595?scroll_to=1050679 https://nowcomment.com/documents/106595?scroll_to=1050679 but the whole class instruction and conversation allows them to gain access to texts that would be less comprehensible reading alone or in small groups. I like the community aspect of reading as a class, acting out scenes, students taking on the voices of certain characters. I'm not sure how I would structure all of that in the setting the author is describing. Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:57:54 -0400 I like this structure - all of these things can be challenging for ELLs for the weekly repetition and predictability can allow them to get comfortable with these tasks. https://nowcomment.com/documents/106595?scroll_to=1050677 https://nowcomment.com/documents/106595?scroll_to=1050677 It reminds me of an English teacher at my school's classroom, which she had designed using "layered curriculum" terminology - there were a menu of synthesis tasks students could choose from in 3 levels. Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:54:45 -0400 This is a perfect description of the summer program :) https://nowcomment.com/documents/106595?scroll_to=1050676 https://nowcomment.com/documents/106595?scroll_to=1050676 Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:50:26 -0400 It's always been exciting to find ways to incorporate multiple literacies in curriculum. https://nowcomment.com/documents/106595?scroll_to=1050675 https://nowcomment.com/documents/106595?scroll_to=1050675 I've had students rewrite soliloquies and chapters from books as texts, tweets... Mon, 30 Jul 2018 09:47:50 -0400 I agree! The social nature of oral language development can't easily be created on the computer... It can, but it's so much easier to do it in a classroom setting. https://nowcomment.com/documents/24159?scroll_to=1033655 https://nowcomment.com/documents/24159?scroll_to=1033655 Tue, 29 May 2018 18:46:14 -0400 I think "they say I say" hooks like these should replace the question as a hook norm that's taught in elementary and middle. Why not give them something they can use into high school and college? https://nowcomment.com/documents/104728?scroll_to=1033593 https://nowcomment.com/documents/104728?scroll_to=1033593 Tue, 29 May 2018 17:51:08 -0400 Again, it's a starting place. https://nowcomment.com/documents/104728?scroll_to=1033591 https://nowcomment.com/documents/104728?scroll_to=1033591 Tue, 29 May 2018 17:50:02 -0400 Writing templates as "maneuvers" https://nowcomment.com/documents/104728?scroll_to=1033590 https://nowcomment.com/documents/104728?scroll_to=1033590 I agree - good writers often use the same moves, students should have access to them through more than models and osmosis. Tue, 12 Oct 2021 14:44:47 -0400 My first problem is with the word itself. https://nowcomment.com/documents/104728?scroll_to=1033586 https://nowcomment.com/documents/104728?scroll_to=1033586 Tue, 29 May 2018 17:48:03 -0400 Art is deviating from the formula. https://nowcomment.com/documents/104728?scroll_to=1033584 https://nowcomment.com/documents/104728?scroll_to=1033584 I can never remember this whole quote, but it basically says you have to learn the formula in order to deviate from it... The formula is the starting place. Tue, 29 May 2018 18:44:24 -0400 This is such a surprising statistic to me! https://nowcomment.com/documents/66410?scroll_to=753754 https://nowcomment.com/documents/66410?scroll_to=753754 Tue, 29 May 2018 18:42:31 -0400