Esl Classroom Observation

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I was placed in a K-3rd grade ESL classroom at Lincoln K-8 in the Peoria 150 district. This classroom is a traditional pull out style ESL classroom/program. My CT, Mrs. Waskow, pulls students out of their gen ed and bilingual classes to work with them in her classroom on reading and phonics skills. During my practicum time, Mrs. Waskow works with multiple groups of various ages. The first group is a small group of four 1st graders who are pulled out of their mainstream classrooms to work with Mrs. Waskow. The second group is her largest group, a group of about 22 1st/2nd grade bilingual students. She has this group for an hour, her longest time with one group. Jacob is a 2nd grade student in the second group. The last group she works with while

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