Ell Reflection

For me, this course has helped me understand my ELL students and ESOL experiences I’ve had in the past. It has helped my validate many of the decisions I made in an effort to help my students. It also gave me a better understanding of student behavior and challenges. I feel that if I had taken this course prior to my work teaching overseas, I would have recognized earlier some of the difficulties my students were experiencing. Because I had to learn through experience, I needed more time to recognize patterns of behavior and determine the underlying causes myself. I described some of my most challenging students throughout the activities assigned in this course. If I had known exactly what to look for when students are displaying symptoms