CREDE STANDARDS Continued

Hello Again,

I have been thinking about how I could be more responsive with ELL students and how I can incorporate the 5 CREDE standards into my units/lessons. Garcia states that we need to understand cultural differences in talk, being we need to let students talk. We need to adjust our teaching strategies so that language can be used and we as teachers can listen more. This allows us to be more responsive to students and help us focus more on critical issues and family background of students. One way this can be incorporated is by having small group activities and providing opportunities for student to do research on their native country and other activities that would share information about them. This also helps integrate the CREDE standards Tharp expounds upon. Even though I do small group activities, I need to more and include more activities that help students express themselves and develop literacy and critical thinking. I sometimes stick too closely to the book, I need to take the risk and step outside the box to ensure students learn more and enjoy learning and to help me as a teacher benefit by knowing I was able to help a student/students.