Category Archives: Equity

Originally posted on Inclusively Educating English Learners:
How do teachers cope with their students’ traumas? Read more at https://www.edutopia.org/article/when-students-are-traumatized-teachers-are-too Self Care and Mindfulness: When Students Are Traumatized, Teachers Are Too The 2021-2022 school year will be challenging for all students and teachers too. Being informed about trauma and coping with trauma will be very important…

Originally posted on Inclusively Educating English Learners:
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Great article providing tips on how to support ELs in the online environment. https://www.teachingchannel.com/blog/english-learners-remotely

This is a great short news story about the difficulties in assessing and teaching ELs in the online environment.

In order to support ELs and students with special learning needs we need to make a distinction between the terms differentiation, modification and accommodation.

This video outlines 18 different strategies for accommodating EL students.

Teachers can often use similar strategies for ELs and students with special needs. This video talks about the relationship between the two programs and how teachers can utilize evidence based strategies to teach both populations.

Identifying EL students for Special Education is not so clear with the majority of times ELs being over-identified. This video gives a brief overview of the topic.

This article is a reminder of how language can be misused for oppressive purposes. https://discover.hubpages.com/education/The-Psychology-of-Language-Discrimination The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe