SOURCES: BLUEPRINT FOR ELL SUCCESS
2-3 Texts of your choice read in class
INQUIRY QUESTION:
What policies, strategies, and cultural considerations do you believe will promote the implementation of the Blueprint for ELL Success?
Choose 3 principles from the Blueprint to base your paper on.
Using evidence from the selected sources, describe how the guidelines for the chosen principles might be implemented.
Organize your paper according to the principles you are addressing.
Include experiences and perspectives that you feel are relevant to the specific elements of the Blueprint.
Your paper should have an introduction and a conclusion that makes suggestions/recommendations for advancing the principles of the Blueprint. Please double space using 12 pt font.
Please cite sources used within your paper.
Connecting to Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
Resources for paper #1: Review the articles we’ve studied in class so far. Write the big ideas in the column on the right
| Week 1 | Getting to Know Your ELLs: Six Steps for Success By Lydia Breiseth |
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| Week 2 | Welcoming ELLs video with Amber Prentice |
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| Connect Students’ Background Knowledge to Content in the ELL Classroom By: Kristina Robertson |
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| Background Knowledge Video with Amber Prentice |
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| Week 3 | What is Culture? |
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| The Culture Iceberg |
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| TED TALK: The Danger of a Single Story by Chimamanda Adichie |
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| Week 4 | A Synthesis of Scholarship in Multicultural Education By: Geneva Gay |
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| Multiculturalism’s Five Dimensions By: Dr. James A. Banks |
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| Cultural Proficiency: What Is It? By: Randall B. Lindsey, Kikanza Nuri Robins, and Raymond D. Terrell |
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