A Project for Everyone

In the article A Project for Everyone: English Language Learners and Technology in Content-Area Classrooms written by Joy Egbert she talks about integrating English language Learners into her class so that they can have a better comprehension of English without feeling embarrassed. She brings into context a project that has had her arrange groups and has placed the ELL students into some of these groups. Her project consists of a power-point presentation of Vietnam War. She goes on to emphasize how certain things reinforce the learning for these students such as interaction, technology, and having an authentic audience. This gets the students of all backgrounds working together and helping one another all in English, which is good for the ELL students due to the condition/situations she has put them in. This project allows them to learn through the processes of gathering, discussing, transforming there research, and presenting. She also emphasizes that you must know how to implement the project for each one of you ELL students and assign them a part of the project that will help them learn the most while still helping their group as well.

Food For Thought Question

1. What if you have ELL students who are not at the required level?

2. What happens if there is a case of discrimination towards an ELL student because he can't read or write at the same equivalency as native speakers? 

I think you would have to reprimand the students who are acting up and let the student know that whatever happened should not let it affect them and that they can do it if they really tried.