Overview Video: Teaching and Learning with English Language Learners

Are you a teacher of English Language Learners (ELL) or African American English (AAE) speakers? Are you looking for a place to engage in meaningful discussions about teaching ELL or speakers of AAE? Do you learn from watching videos from your colleague teachers?

This website hosts multimedia resources that aim to promote teacher learning and enhance the quality of education offered to African American English (AAE) speakers and English Language Learners (ELL) who struggle to learn and/or are receiving special education services. Visitors to this website will be able to explore multimedia tools to understand how student linguistic and cultural practices can be used as assets and resources to support the learning of English Language Learners (ELL) and speakers of AAE.

This MediaLab is an innovative tool for professional learning activities with groups of practitioners in formal short-term events or in long-term efforts of professional learning communities. Visitors to this site will be able to post, watch videos, and comment on multimedia artifacts about best practices for teaching English Language Learners (ELL) and speakers of AAE who receive special educations services or struggle to learn. The Language Differences MediaLab, in this way, generates ongoing conversations about how to best serve these populations.

This website was funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs through the NCCRESt project under grant #H326E0060001 and the LASER project under grant H326M000002. We also aknowledge the support of the Equity Alliance at ASU under grant # S004D080027 awarded by the U.S. Department of Education

Please check back soon for a short video overview of our Language Differences Media Lab for English Language Learner Discussions.

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