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Are you facing the challenge of integrating newcomers into your classroom in the middle of the school year?
In this quick episode of the Equipping ELLs podcast, host Beth Vaucher offers actionable solutions. Dive into a wealth of FREE resources specifically curated to simplify mid-year transitions for newcomers!
Join Beth as she unveils 5 (downloadable) invaluable tools designed to alleviate the stress of newcomer integration. From comprehensive newcomer welcome folders to WIDA-aligned can-do descriptors, these resources are tailor-made to empower educators and facilitate newcomer success. Say goodbye to overwhelm and hello to seamless classroom transitions with expert insights and practical guidance. Tune in now to equip yourself with the tools you need to thrive!
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"welcome to another episode of the Equipping Ell podcast. Today, I want to talk to you about how to help newcomers transition into the school year in the middle of the year. Because, like I shared last week, I know a lot of you are experiencing an influx with newcomers, and that can feel even more overwhelming when it's the middle of the school year. And so today's episode is going to be short and sweet because I'm going to be sharing with you five resources that will help you get set up with what you need to be supporting your newcomers from day one. And these are things that you can share with other teachers in your building. Please use them and share them. Just let them know where you got them from or share this podcast with them. But I really am not going to go too in depth because you're going to find everything you need inside each of these resources. Now, if you have been around here for a while, I hope that you know and that you see how passionate we are here about empowering you to equip your english language learners. We honestly are constantly thinking and discussing, how can we make this easier for you? How can we help you to show up and be your best and provide quality and engaging resources for your english language learners? So, hopefully you've seen that in whatever way you've interacted with us here. But today, I want to just bring five of our resources together that we have created to make these things easier for you, to help you if you don't have ESL experience, but you're receiving ESL students in your classroom. That is what we're all about. We want to help support, empower you. I've experienced firsthand the absolute joy it is to work with these incredible learners. But I also know that when you don't have the right tools and guidance, it can feel really overwhelming. So, to combat that over, um, today I'm going to share with you five free resources that you can use to. Successfully help your newcomers transition into the school year. All right, are you ready to begin? And like I said, all these things are available to you. You can click them in the show notes and you can download each of them. You can share them, please use them and help other teachers feel empowered as well. So I hit on this last week, and this, I think, is a great place to start. And this is the newcomer welcome folder. The newcomer welcome folder is a variety of resources that we've put together that can all fit into one folder. And I encourage you to go download this, print it, and if you are ambitious to print multiple and set up five or ten folders at once, because you'll see that as you become familiar with these folders and what's inside, then all teachers can feel empowered to know what to do in that first day. I think when we can get over that first day and we can really have things prepared for them, it's so much easier for both us and for the students. But I really constantly think back to that first day. I had Joanna, my newcomer, and I just thought, I have no idea what to do and I have nothing prepared. There's nothing worse than that feeling. But with other newcomers that I later on had and when I had materials ready, it was such a joy and there was so much excitement in those students and an excitement for me because I loved that opportunity to know that I was going to get the chance to help the student begin to learn English. So inside the newcomer welcome folder, there are a few things for teachers. There's a checklist of things that teachers can do before the first day, during the first day, and during the first couple of weeks. There are also a few resources and materials for the students. For the first day, there is a little welcome book that they can color. There are some first week activities where they're learning basic greetings. They're learning basic vocabulary in the classroom. And one of the important things that's in that folder are some survival cards. And these survival cards have QR codes so those students can take them home and they can listen to them with their parents smartphone, and they can work on hearing English being spoken. They can repeat it at home where it's a safe environment. And it's really those words that are really crucial to just survival. I'm lost. Where is this? My teacher is. My name is things like the bathroom or things they're going to hear day in and day out. We want to really boost them with those words so that they can quickly start to grab on to what's being said and how to operate in the school setting as quickly as possible. We want to empower them with the ability to communicate in those ways when they need to. So definitely want to grab that newcomer welcome folder, get it set up. Like I said, set up multiple ones at a time so that whenever you have a newcomer, you already can be like, I have got this. I have. Folder right here. I'll pull it out, I'll put the student snapshot in there and we're good to go. Think of how different your day would be if you had that all ready to go. So that's number one. Our number two free resource to help you out is our go to guide. And we've really put this together from years of different things that we have done, different research, different experiences that we've had in the classroom and just seeing, wow, I do not know how to do this. And I was never told how to do this. And just hearing from you and teachers asking and saying, can you help me with this? All of these different types of things. So we've put a guide together that's over 30 pages. And this is really your. It really is your go to guide. That's what we really anything of this, I'm going to read through the table of contents so you can see exactly what's in it. But I think you're going to want to go download it and you're going to want to share it with other staff in your building. Because in this we have one where to begin teaching ell. So just that mindset piece. We have a culturally responsive quiz. So looking at biases that we might have, we have preparing for newcomers, getting set up. We have what to teach your newcomers for the first twelve weeks. And I'm going to go into that in a second with our next freebie. But that's just kind of a quick overview of different vocabulary. You could hit on different grammar skills. We then have ideas for scaffolds and supports for slife students. We have expectations for each domains.
bundle that has sold to over:Thanks again for joining me on another episode of the Clipping Yellows podcast. I will be back next week with some more quick tips on how to help transition your newcomers into a school year."