A Quick-Start Guide for Teaching English-Language Learners

    Imagine the following scenario: As a new teacher, you meet with your school’s English-as-a-second-language teacher, who informs you that you have students on your class list who are English-language learners.

    Your heart sinks. What will you do with "them"? How will you manage to get high scores when you have ELLs in your class? How will you be able to teach them?

Let’s shift that narrative.

    You have language learners in your classes? Congratulations! Imagine all the new angles and perspectives you can include in your teaching this year, the different ways you can tap into students’ critical thinking...

Courtesy of Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action.

700,000 English-Language Learners Have a Disability. We Have to Do Better by Them

Teachers should focus on ELL students' strengths, not their deficits

By Rochelle Verstaendig

    A Pakistani 2nd grader with dyslexia, a South American girl suffering from a benign brain tumor, and a Japanese teenager experiencing symptoms of attention deficit disorder might not have a lot in common at first glance. However, they are all English-language learners who have also been identified as having an intellectual, psychological, or physical disability. I have taught students much like these—and countless others—during my 28 years as an English-as-a-new-language teacher in New York.

    Recent figures from the National Center for Educational Statistics indicate that more than 700,000 English-language...

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