But he/she can't do anything!!!!
It's that time of the year. School has started and new students arrive in your class. You've spent weeks making preparations and having desks, tables, materials ready for your students to dive in. Then in walks a student, or maybe two or three, and they are introduced as English Learners. Your first thoughts probably swing the pendulum from "oh s$&# - to - I'm up for the challenge". You might have an EL teacher on staff who immediately steps in and starts working with him/her/them/you. The reality is you now have this student in your class and you're accountable for making all content comprehensible, um BY LAW. You're going over procedures and reviewing what we should know and remember from last year, and this new student is: *Digging in their desk *Putting them head down on the desk *Poking their neighbor with a pencil *Rolling around on the carpet *Refusing to take papers you hand out *Doodling on um everything They are not doing anythin