Working with Students on the Move!

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Working with Students on the Move!

• Common Struggles with Classroom Management

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Students On the Move

• English language learners are wonderful students.
  They are eager to learn and they make the
  classroom very enjoyable. However, as an ELL
  instructor there are some unique situations that
  we have to deal with when working with this
  population.

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Students On The Move

• NAMES, how can a persons name be a problem.
  Working with non English speaking adult names is
  a learning experience for the instructor. Ex.
  Carlos Ramon Jesus Diaz can show up on a class
  sign -in sheet in several different forms.
  Keeping track of contact hours for one person can
  be hard on NRS reports.

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Students On The Move

• Many of our ELL classes have open enrollment
  because our students come when they arrive in the
  US. The student enrollment sheets are many times
  lacking in basic information because of time
  constraints of the instructor to individually
  help each student. Again, making NRS reports hard
  to manage.

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Students On The Move

• Contacting your students in any class can be
  difficult. Addresses and phone numbers change
  many times. Cell phone numbers are hard to get.
  The language barrier between instructor and
  student many times is the problem in the ELL
  classroom. Finding effective ways to communicate
  is a real challenge.

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Students On The Move

• Childcare seems to be a necessity for the ELL
  classroom. The challenges we still face are
  volunteer caregivers are not reliable and paid
  caregivers are very expensive. Even with a sitter
  there are still children that want to sit right
  beside their parents during class and the parents
  wont change the situation.

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Students On The Move

• Transportation to attend class is a challenge for
  all students for several reasons. In the ELL
  classroom, we have seen lack of money for
  gasoline, unreliable transportation and
  especially the lack of proper ID or licenses to
  drive. Car pooling works, but is not always
  reliable.

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Students On The Move

• Class schedules for an ELL classes are many times
  very different than an ABE class schedules.
  Students, who travel between countries for
  extended periods of time need more flexibility to
  attend class. Instructors for these classes, also
  need to be flexible with their time.

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Students On The Move

• Pre and post testing is difficult in any adult
  classroom. We have found that since not all ELL
  instructors are BEST trained that our trained
  instructors have to schedule testing times and
  risk the chance of missing students. Even a
  trained instructor misses some traveling students.

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Students On The Move

• ELL students with no Social Security numbers
  dont count on reaching goals except for
  completing an educational level or the social
  goals like citizenship. We lose many numbers of
  students because they cant be counted on the
  federally mandated goals of employment, GED, or
  further education.

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Students On The Move

• Citizenship activities, such as field trips,
  special speakers and social events have been
  curtailed because of the high cost of food, fuel
  etc.