What instructional setting can provide the most integrated learning experience for English Language Learner students?
Summary Nationwide, great demands and challenges are being placed on schools with large minority populations. The same challenges occur in schools like Georgetown Elementary, where I am a first-grade English Language Learner (ELL) teacher. One of the greatest challenges that I face is to serve the instructional needs of the ELL students. Instruction to first- and second-grade ELL students at Georgetown Elementary has been primarily provided through a pullout program. In this program, students are pulled out of their mainstream classes for a period of 45 minutes a day for special instruction in the English language. While aimed at meeting the academic and social needs of second-language learners, this program is problematic because the number of students has increased and instructional time has decreased. Consequently, a new instructional program was implemented, namely, a structured immersion program. In this program, students are taught by an ELL-certified teacher who in most cases is
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