Agent Mandy Yom (ELL Kindergarten)
Your lesson, should you choose to accept it, is to create positive relationships with students and families in a kindergarten class for English Language Learners. The special agent assigned to help you with this task is Mandy Yom of Skokie, Illinois. In this episode we discuss: A game to put yourself in the shoes of an English Language Learner (ELL) How a sheltered ELL kindergarten program works How students are selected into the program in Illinois Mandy’s path to teaching Building relationships with ELL families Learning the value of boundaries Striving to find ways to include data-driven feedback into her practice Needing to adapt the kindergarten curriculum for ELLs The various challenges of distance learning Non-traditional ways of communicating with families Her ideal school: getting families truly involved
