I created this site as my capstone project for a Master of Arts in English as a Second Language from Hamline University. My goal is to aid EL teachers with resources in creating a learning culture that best supports the social-emotional needs of adolescent English language learners. This site catalogs some of those resources under four main categories: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, Social-Emotional Content, The Affective Filter, and Differentiation. Under Others, there is a brief Q&A and references used in this website.
Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
What is Culturally Relevant Pedagogy?
A Practical Five-Step Model for Selecting Culturally Relevant Literature
Finding Culturally Relevant Text
Social-Emotional Content:
The Incremental Theory of Personality
Finding Text with Social-Emotional Content
The Affective Filter:
What Can Teachers Do to Lower the Affective Filter? Part 1
What Can Teachers Do to Lower the Affective Filter? Part 2
Differentiation:
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Technology in the ESL classroom
Asking the Right Kind of Questions
Others:
Social-Emotional Learning in the EL classroom 