Standard 3.

c Using Resources and Technology Effectively in ESL and Content Instruction

Artifact 2

ESL student comprehend materials in ways that they may not be able to express in

words yet. Therefore, creating learning opportunities that allow them to utilize images and

symbols can be an effective way in summatively accessing their comprehension. In these

cases, technology can be an effective tool in allowing students to show what they know.

The attached artifact is an example of a Do-Now that I use to refresh students on the

previous days material. In this case, we were doing a unit on the Civil Rights Movement. To

review the concept of civil rights, I shared a Google Doc with students and asked them to find

images that represented what they had learned the day before. Students uploaded images to

the doc, which I projected. As images populated the collage, we discussed how they related to

the material and how that related to the current days learning objective.

Before my ESL coursework, I would have thought an activity like this to not be educative

because students were not reading or writing. However, I now understand that students can

also learn a great deal by discussing what they are learning and examining their own

metacognition through the use of images and symbols that express more complex ideas.