Entry 3: Interview with ESL teacher
Last year Roxana did teach ESL classes instead of sheltered instruction, but the school switched to sheltered instruction to focus more on academics. The text book talks about the difference between ESL and Sheltered Instruction, ESL is more focused on teaching English to students that aren’t proficient while Sheltered Instruction is more focused on content-area instruction being more comprehensible for ELLs ( Wright, W. E. 2015). Roxana stated that she believes this method works better for the students in the school because most of the time we’re only focused on ELA classes for ELLs, which leaves them helpless in their other classes. Sheltered instruction is giving them better support for all their classes and is teaching them English at the same time. A lot of times teachers forget that knowing and understanding English is needed for every content-area. If an ELL doesn’t understand English in an ELA class chances are they won’t understand it in the other classes as well. ...
