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Designing Lesson Plans to Integrate Cultural Diversity of ELs By Laura Bridges Lead ESL Teacher, Rutherford County NCDPI EL Support Team Member

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Designing Lesson Plans to Integrate Cultural Diversity of ELsBy Laura BridgesLead ESL Teacher, Rutherford County

NCDPI EL Support Team Member

Our Essential Question:Why should we integrate the cultural diversity into our teaching practice? Specifically, why should we intentionally connect to the background experiences of our English learners?

Talk to those near you about why we should connect to the diverse cultures of our ELs...

Let’s share some ideas!

NC Teacher Evaluation Rubric Standard II: Teachers Establish a Respectful Environment for a Diverse Population of Students

Key Vocabulary

MeaningfulRelevantUnique

RespectfulValue

Identity

Jim Cummins, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto

Identity Texts: Giving Voice to ELs https://youtu.be/7P9FWO1yC6Q

Identity Text written in Urdu and English by three 7th graders. It says that it describes how hard it was to leave their country and come to a new country.

So, what can I do to value my ELs’ cultural diversity?

Turn and talk with those near you about this question.

Let’s share some ideas!

Lesson Plan DesignTemplateIdeaActivityStrategy

Some ideas you might like to plant in your lessons..

Research a country and have students make flags, objects that represent the country, or its flag.

Let students make passports and have them stamped at various places as they learn.

Think international!

Show and Tell!Ask families of EL students to come in and show artifacts of their country, bring in food, or share about their language, culture and customs.

Use your wall space to promote diversity!

Mark with pins where your ELs are from or what countries you are studying!

Be creative!

Multicultural Reading Night

Where will reading take you? Around the world!Paris, India, NYC, London, Rome, Moscow...

Activities with Diverse Materials

Compare and Contrast What is the same and different about the main characters?What is the same and different about the story line?

Tell Stories in Sequence

iPad + Green Screen = Travel Around the World

Strategies for Teaching English

Learners

Graphic Organizers with sentence frames.

This makes what we are doing very clear.

I leave the labeling blank until we complete it together.

Word BanksHaving word banks available encourages correct spelling. Students also feel good about using new words in their writing.

Sentence Stem Tents

Clarify Something...

Now I understand...

This makes sense now...

No, I think that means...

I agree with you. This

means...

So, What Can I Do Now?Find something new you want to add in to spice up your current unit in social studies

Use a cultural diversity theme in a new art project

Research a new text you found interesting about a different place

Apply a new strategy with your English Learners you haven’t tried before!

Consider a self-portrait/all about me/identity project for your students

Talk to your colleagues about an international grade level or school-wide project

Some Additional FREE Resources...● Colorin Colorado article Learn about

your students’ backgrounds in the areas of where they come from, language, culture, values, home environment, reaching out

● Colorin Colorado article Creating a Welcoming Classroom Environment

● A lesson plan from Scholastic that is centered on discovering your heritage

● Jen Bengel’s “Comparing Cultures to My Own” Compare/Contrast Activity

● Multiculturalism and Diversity Lesson Plans and other ideas from Scholastic

● Newcomer Toolkit from U.S. Department of Education

● English Learner Toolkit from U.S. Department of Education