Assisting ELL Students with Assignments

Over the course of my tutoring experience with my ELL student at Winooski High School, I have noticed a few different scaffolding techniques specifically catered to assist ELL students while they complete their homework. During a homework assignment that I was helping my ELL partner with, we watched two videos assigned by the teacher that consisted of two different people in the school board talking about their opinions about having school all year round. In both of the videos, there were subscripts so the students could read what the speaker was saying while he or she was saying it. The speakers often spoke at a fast pace and the video quality was not the best, so the subscripts were greatly appreciated by my ELL partner when we were comparing and contrasting the two videos at the end. Another scaffolding technique popped up while my ELL partner was assigned to read a rather lengthy document outlining the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. The document contained lots factual evidence and insight, but also had a fair amount of tricky words for ELL students to understand. The teacher provided the students with a handout that had definitions and explanations to not only words tricky words found in the document, but also to ideas related to the topic perhaps explained in more simple English terms. As a future educator, it will be important to provide scaffolding resources to not only my ELL students, but to all my students so they can have the adequate support while they complete independent assignments. If students have the support they need while they are independently completing assignments, they will be more inclined to be engaged on the topic and compete the assignment.


   
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