The start of the new school year is typically extremely busy. There are new families registering students, students coming to their new schools, meeting their teachers and classmates. There's lots of screening, placement, scheduling, action, action, action. 

Multilingual learners join our communities all the time. But somehow, the deficit mindset, which assumes they don't understand anything and therefore are capable of only doing very little, is still very pervasive. 

That's why in today's episode, I wanted to address this topic. We'll uncover the essence of the asset-based approach and discuss practical tips for embracing this mindset in our schools and classrooms.

What you will hear about in this episode:

• What is an asset based approach?
• How can we empower our English learners no matter what proficiency level they are?
• How can the districts, schools, and us teachers embrace the asset based approach and infuse it into our everyday teaching?
• And so much more!

Show Notes:

• Episode 80 - Empowering English Learners: An Asset-Based Approach

Resources Mentioned:

• The ESL Teaching Roadmap – membership community for middle and high school ESL/ELL teachers. As a thank you for listening, use code ESLPODCAST for 10% off when you join. 
• Simply Ieva ESL Teachers Pay Teachers Store
• 1:1 ESL Teacher Coaching Session 
• Essential Lesson Plan Bundle

Related Episodes:

• Episode 5 - 4 ways to use students’ first language in teaching English
• Episode 38 - Responsive classroom and planning with ELs in mind
• Four easy ways to differentiate the same lesson

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