Our school is doing a series of professional development sessions this year on ELL instruction for all our teachers.

We did the first session with about fifteen or so teachers and ended it using this neat idea I learned from Andrea Honigsfeld:

The screenshot at the top of this post captures only a portion of what teachers wrote (thanks to Melanie Bean for transcribing the sticky notes!).

You can download the entire list here.

Of course, teachers have given me permission to share the list.

We have four more sessions to go, and I’ll try to get permission to share the lists that come out of each one.

I’m adding this post to THE BEST COLLECTIONS OF INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR ELLS – HELP ME FIND MORE!