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6 Effective Practices for Teaching STEM to MLLs
Darlyne de Haan
Teaching STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) or STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, math; for simplicity, I’ll use STEM in this article) to multilingual learners (MLLs) can be very challenging because STEM vocabularies can be very complex for even the native … Continue reading
STEM and ELT: 7 Science Reading Strategies
Darlyne de Haan
There is growing interest in how to teach English learners (ELs) science in the general education classroom especially because science contains a lot of reading and academic language. The strategies I discuss here, including the four strategies from Part 1 … Continue reading
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Tagged as content-based instruction, math, reading, reading strategies, science, STEM, teaching reading
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STEM in ELT: 3 Ways to Address STEM Inequities
Darlyne de Haan
If our goal is to “seal” the leaky STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) pipeline for English learners (ELs), we must first look at the three areas of greatest impact on students’ exposure to STEM courses: Teacher preparation Teacher self-efficacy … Continue reading
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Tagged as ESL in mainstream, inequities in ELT, math, professional development, program administration, science, STEM, STEM in ELT, technology in ELT
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8 Strategies for Teaching Math to English Learners
Judie Haynes
Classroom and ESL teachers often discuss difficulties they encounter when teaching math to English learners (ELs). The first step is to look at the challenges your students face when learning math in English. It’s often said that “math is a … Continue reading
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Tagged as content-based instruction, language learning strategies, math, math strategies, primary education, scaffolding
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Do ELs Lack Access to Education in STEM?
Judie Haynes
I recently came across a report published in 2018 by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine that concluded that English learners (ELs) do not have adequate access STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education in U.S. schools. The … Continue reading
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Tagged as Judie Haynes, math, primary education, science, STEM, teaching young learners, technology
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Making Word Problems Less Problematic
Nathan Hall
I worked in adult ESL education before earning my secondary school teacher certification, and one student I’ll always remember was a woman who was a math teacher in her former country. She could handle problems and equations so easily, I … Continue reading
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Tagged as content-based instruction, evergreen, math, Nathan Hall, secondary education, word problems
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