tgraves
September 4, 2025, 1:33am
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Good Evening! What pedagogical strategies do you have to teach ELL and gifted students in the Computer Science classroom? What strategies do you have to teach programming languages to ELL students? Some ELL students can speak English but they have a hard time comprehending reading and writing in English. Also, how can I help my gifted students?
Here are some discussion threads on the topic.
Hi, I teach at a school that is about 25% immigrants in St. Cloud, MN. Here are a few things that have worked wonders for me, without requiring much out of me.
For preproductive students:
These students can understand much of what is given to them, but they don't speak much because they're just starting with English
Give them choices. They can point, or choose from a few options. Doing this will reveal a surprising amount of understanding hiding in there.
Asking students at this stage to p…
Here’s a previous post on the forum with some suggestions for translating pages and other strategies you may be able to use. The question was about Spanish, but could be used for any language.
Hope that helps!
Mike
This is what I ended up creating (in case anyone else needs this resource):
Are there any resources within the Code.org community for ELL students in CSD? I have been looking but haven’t found anything.
Hi, I teach at a school that is about 25% immigrants in St. Cloud, MN. Here are a few things that have worked wonders for me, without requiring much out of me.
For preproductive students:
These students can understand much of what is given to them, but they don't speak much because they're just starting with English
Give them choices. They can point, or choose from a few options. Doing this will reveal a surprising amount of understanding hiding in there.
Asking students at this stage to p…
Hope these help!