Celine Dassatti is a veteran teacher, having taught for 18 years, the last 5 in Hadley. She became interested in working with ELL students from her experience with her students in the Holyoke schools.
She has been experimenting with different technologies this year, including StoryBird, Pearson Success Net and ABCYa. Celine finds that the use of images in her teaching enables her students to grasp vocabulary more readily and helps keeps students engaged. At the middle and high school she has also used Kahn Academy, USALearns.org and English Central.com.
Having the COWs available this year has been very helpful. The websites she uses offer differentiated instruction. One thing she would like to try is to use more YouTube videos to help get her students excited about writing. It's hard to find topics for her students to write about and showing a video can help students not only learn to express feelings, but often opens the door to discussions about why a song was written and what the songwriter is trying to portray.
She has been experimenting with different technologies this year, including StoryBird, Pearson Success Net and ABCYa. Celine finds that the use of images in her teaching enables her students to grasp vocabulary more readily and helps keeps students engaged. At the middle and high school she has also used Kahn Academy, USALearns.org and English Central.com.
Having the COWs available this year has been very helpful. The websites she uses offer differentiated instruction. One thing she would like to try is to use more YouTube videos to help get her students excited about writing. It's hard to find topics for her students to write about and showing a video can help students not only learn to express feelings, but often opens the door to discussions about why a song was written and what the songwriter is trying to portray.
Students working on rubrics for peer reviews of the story presentations in class.
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Two of the stories are embedded below. Click to open Full Screen.
Other stories include The Mysterious Red Cat, The Mountain Monster and Finding a Job.
Other stories include The Mysterious Red Cat, The Mountain Monster and Finding a Job.