Equipping ELLs
by Beth Vaucher, ELL, ESL Teachers
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About this podcast
Equipping ELLs is a podcast for ESL specialists and homeroom teachers who are looking for effective and engaging ways to support their English Language Learners without adding to their endless to-do list. Each week you’ll hear tips, strategies, and inspirational stories that will empower you to better reach your ELL students, equip them with life-long skills, and strengthen relationships with colleagues and parents. Your host, Beth Vaucher, is an ESL certified homeroom teacher with over 10 years of experience teaching in the US and internationally. Learn more at www.inspiringyounglearners.com.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 229 episodes
- EP228 — WIDA Levels Explained: What a 2.4 Actually Means for Monday's Lesson · 14 min · Episode 228A classroom teacher catches you at the copier: "Her file says she's a level 2.4. What does that mean for my class?" You know the WIDA levels. What she needs is an answer for…
- EP227 — Data-Driven Instruction for ELLs: What to Do With the Data You Already Have · 22 min · Episode 227It's Sunday night: screener report, ACCESS scores, a color-coded benchmark spreadsheet, a stack of exit tickets. And Monday's lesson plan looks exactly like it would have if…
- EP226 — Your ELL Student Isn't Stuck: How to Identify What's Actually Getting in the Way · 20 min · Episode 226There's one student you keep coming back to. You're doing everything you know how to do, and they're still not making the progress you expected. Before you try one more random…
- EP225 — WIDA Standards Explained: What They Actually Mean for Your ELL Classroom · 15 min · Episode 225Someone handed you the WIDA Can Do Descriptors, maybe with a sticky note that said "use these for planning," and then they went in a drawer. That's not your fault. Here's how to…
- EP224 — AI Hacks for Any Teacher Working with ELLs · 16 min · Episode 224You've pasted a prompt into ChatGPT, gotten something that looked great, and then realized it didn't fit your actual students at their actual levels. AI can save you real…
- EP 223 - If your lessons feel disjointed, here's 3 steps to get into the flow · 21 min · Episode 223Six weeks in. You're tired — the real kind. And you end some lessons wondering whether anything actually landed. That feeling doesn't mean you're failing. It means you're paying…
- EP222 — How to Be the ELL Expert in Your Building Even When Nobody Listens · 21 min · Episode 222A decision gets made about one of your ELL students — a placement, a schedule, a service — and nobody asked you. Not because anyone meant to exclude you. It just didn't occur to…
- EP221 — Formative Assessment for ELL Students: How to Know If They Are Actually Getting It · 19 min · Episode 221A few weeks into the school year most ELL teachers hit the same moment. A student is participating, completing tasks, sitting through the lesson — and you genuinely do not know…
- EP220 — How to Talk to Parents of ELL Students: Building Trust Across Language and Culture · 24 min · Episode 220In Episode 220 of the Equipping ELLs podcast, Beth Vaucher opens with a scene that shifts everything — an invitation to imagine being an ELL parent walking into a parent-teacher…
- EP219 — How to Co-Teach With General Education Teachers to Actually Support Your ELLs · 16 min · Episode 219In Episode 219 of the Equipping ELLs podcast, Beth Vaucher opens with something most professional development on co-teaching never acknowledges: the textbook version of…
- EP218 - Comprehensible Input in Your Classroom: 10 Strategies That Work for Every Level · 18 min · Episode 218In Episode 218 of the Equipping ELLs podcast, Beth Vaucher picks up where Episode 206 left off — but this time leaves the theory behind and goes completely practical. Teachers…
- EP217 - How to Set Up Your ELL Classroom for Back to School: A Week-by-Week Guide · 23 min · Episode 217In Episode 217 of the Equipping ELLs podcast, Beth Vaucher delivers exactly what every ELL teacher needs in the first weeks of school — a clear, focused, week-by-week guide for…
- EP216 - A Simple Approach to Planning ELL Lessons That Actually Works · 21 min · Episode 216In Episode 216 of the Equipping ELLs podcast, Beth Vaucher addresses the Sunday evening reality most ELL teachers know well — sitting in front of a blank document with a roster…
- EP215 — The Secret to Scaffolding for Multiple Levels in Your ELL Classroom · 18 min · Episode 215In Episode 215 of the Equipping ELLs podcast, Beth Vaucher delivers the insight that sits underneath every scaffolding strategy she has ever shared — the one that makes…
- EP214 — How to Differentiate for ELL Students Without Planning Five Different Lessons · 18 min · Episode 214In Episode 214 of the Equipping ELLs podcast, Beth Vaucher tackles the question she gets asked more than almost any other — by ELL teachers, homeroom teachers, and anyone who has…
- EP213 — Sentence Frames for ELL Students: The Scaffold That Changes Everything · 23 min · Episode 213In Episode 213 of the Equipping ELLs podcast, Beth Vaucher goes deep on the one scaffold that makes almost every speaking and writing activity she has ever shared actually work…
- EP212 — ESL Speaking Activities That Actually Work for Every Language Level · 24 min · Episode 212In Episode 212 of the Equipping ELLs podcast, Beth Vaucher opens the practical application series with the domain she believes has the single biggest impact on language…
- EP211 - Stop Being the Only Thing Holding Your ELL Classroom Together · 19 min · Episode 211In Episode 211 of the Equipping ELLs podcast, Beth Vaucher brings the entire ELL Success Cycle together — WHO, WHAT, HOW, and WHEN — and shows listeners exactly what it looks and…
- EP210 - Stop Guessing What Your ELL Students Need Next — Do This Instead · 23 min · Episode 210In Episode 210 of the Equipping ELLs podcast, Beth Vaucher delivers the final piece of the ELL Success Cycle — the WHEN. After covering who your students are, what to teach them…
- EP209 — What Is Sheltered Instruction And Are Your ELLs Actually Getting It · 27 min · Episode 209In Episode 209 of the Equipping ELLs podcast, Beth Vaucher tackles one of the most widely trained-on and least consistently implemented concepts in ELL education: sheltered…
