Professional Learning Plan Log

Name: Aaron Conner

Faculty Facilitator: Betsy Rodgers
Group members: Katherine Clemens, Sumter Barbour, Lindsey Rae Atkins
Indicator: All of us
Area to Grow: We wanted to learn more about ELL students and how to teach them in the
classroom.
Plan for Growth (Book study, articles, speakers, etc): Book- Making Content
Comprehensible for Elementary English Learners. By: Jana EchEvarra, MaryEllen Vogt,
Deborah J. Short

Meeting/Date/Time Activity Reflective Narrative
Email
communication
Discussed what we
wanted to do and
learn about.
Planned rest of
meetings and
agreed on a book.
Came up with meeting dates and decided upon
a topic of interest.
Meeting 1: March
19th
Discussed Article We discussed article about ELL education in
Kansas, and how that population is no longer a
minority but rather a very large part of the
schools culture.
Meeting 2: April 9th Discussed Chapter
3
We talked about the background that ELL
students come from and how it is important for
a teacher to know it. When a teacher knows the
students background, they can connect what
they are teaching to the student and make it
personal.
Meeting 3: April
23rd
Discussed Chapter
5
Today we talked about strategies. Chapter 5
was about SIOPs Features. It scaffolded
lessons for the readers and discussed how
students learn best. For example Cognitive
Learning Strategies and Language Learning
Strategies. ELL students may know the
strategies but not in the English language.
Meeting 4: April
30th
Field Trip Our PLC went to Fultondale Elementary to
observe the ELL teacher. The teacher had
three students in her class, two from Mexico
and one from Guatemala. She worked with
them as a small group and with one
independently.