A Look Back: Excellent “Preview, View, Review” Guide For Teachers Who Don’t Speak Their Students’ Home Languages

(I’m republishing my greatest posts from the second half of 2024. You possibly can see your entire record of them right here)

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As common readers know, I’ve been a longtime advocate of utilizing a model of the “Preview, View, Evaluation” educational technique for ELLs in content material courses.

The concept is that the lesson is briefly previewed within the college students’ residence language, the lesson is then carried out in English, after which it’s briefly reviewed within the college students’ residence language.

Clearly, logistically it may be difficult to do that, particularly in a big class and if the trainer doesn’t truly communicate college students’ residence languages.

In these circumstances, a simple work round is to seek out on-line sources on the subject within the college students’ languages and share them forward of time (see The Greatest Multilingual & Bilingual Websites For Math, Social Research, & Science).  In case your college subscribes to Brainpop, and when you have ELLs who communicate Spanish, their Spanish-language movies are nice examples of these sorts of sources.

ELL trainer Sable Schwab has now created a superb short-and-sweet Preview, View, Evaluation information that gives plenty of different useful concepts to lecturers who don’t communicate their college students’ residence languages, and he or she’s granted me permission to share it right here. You possibly can see it on Google Docs right here (sorry, for a short while that hyperlink wasn’t open to everybody, however now it’s) or obtain it as Phrase Doc right here.  It features a reference or two to “Flex,” which is what her college calls further assist time.

I’m including this information to The Greatest Recommendation To Content material Teachers About Supporting English Language Learners.

Sable has over15 years of educating expertise in Spain, Illinois, China, Arizona, and Wisconsin and is presently a highschool ELL trainer in Monroe, WI.