1. Wednesday August 25, 2010 Grade 4 ESL 5:00 – 5:30 – Refreshments for all parents outside the Little Theater 5:15 – 5:30 – ESL parents meet with Grade 4 ESL teacher in her classroom 5:30 – 6:00 – Curriculum introduction by Michael and Simon, Introduction of Specialist areas (Art, Music, Physical Education, IT, CMC) 6:00 – 7:00 – Parents with individual classroom teachers.
2. Agenda Who is Ms. Hines? What does a language learner look like ? What does the ESL program in Grade Four look like? How do ESL students get mainstreamed?
This is an iceberg. We know that icebergs are fast disappearing but for the remaining few, this is what it looks like. In the language circle we use this picture to describe how language is learned.
I’d like to begin with my experience when I started teaching ESL in ISM.