Diverse Learners

Within the 7th grade class we have one ELL student and a handful of students with IEPs varying in need. Working with these students each day has helped me see the different needs and help differentiate the work that they are doing or the help they need with the work. Looking at my ELL student he came to this district at the end of last year and comes from anhosuehodl that speaks Spanish 99% of the time. Working with him has been really neat because you can see how bad he wants to learn and get his words correct for the English language. He is working around the order of his words a lot right now and also just how to translate his words to English. I was walking round watching and he was using google translate to get his wording right for his speech we are presenting on the 8th. He presented his speech and you could tell how hard he was trying to get his words in the right order and getting his presentation to the level it needed to be. We are giving him a chance to redo it though at recess but he is very adamant to go back in front of the class so we are going to let him! 

I also have worked one on one with one of my special needs students which I really enjoy. I will scribe for her in the short amount of time that we have her in our class (15 minutes). I enjoy working with her and seeing her classmates interact with her. She is only with us for the 15 minutes to get some time with her classmates and some class experience with us which seems to be very good for her. 

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  1. MarleneSeptember 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM

    It has to be exciting to see the determination of the students trying to do their best and putting forth such effort. I always think their should be a grade for effort or on a rubric points for effort. He might want to tape himself the day before the class so he could hear himself and then hear where he could change or continue to practice. If it is the nerves in front of the class, could you tape him by himself and show it to the class. ( He might do better)

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