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Mentoring Minds: The English Language Learner Strategies Guide
This website has a lot of information that can be useful to educators of English Language Learners. The website is called Mentoring Minds. According to this website, the No Child Left Behind Law is enforcing schools to make sure that all students are improving, even the E.L.L. students. Therefore, it is important that teachers have specific strategies that will help the E.L.L. students improve in their learning skills and grade wise as well. This website not only has strategies for teachers, but it encourages parents to help their child by making cultural adjustments and allow more opportunities, now that their child is learning to speak English, in order to ease the transitional process.
What I found most interesting about this website was how the tool bars on the side offered more than just teaching strategies to educators. The website has assessments that can help bring up the students’ test scores in math and reading for standardized tests. In addition, there are vocabulary, Spanish, math and writing activities that the students can work on. The website is not only for teachers, but for parents as well. Both parents and teachers can monitor their student or child “mentoring their minds” by doing activities in different subjects, using smart charts, and using graphic organizers. This site also has classroom management tips, flip charts for critical thinking strategies, internet safety and protection, behavior guides, and E.L.L. strategies. Overall, this website is very useful for the students to improve in their studies because it provides special activities and strategies that will help ease the transitional process.
http://www.mentoringminds.com/ELL-Strategies-Guide-Research.php