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Twain Elementary outlines new departmentalized model for English-language learners
Summary
Twain Elementary staff told the school board they moved to a three-teacher, domain-focused model for ELL instruction that increases total pull-out time and staggers 15-minute rotations to concentrate on listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Twain Elementary teachers and school leaders told the Iowa City Community School District Board of Directors on March 11 that the school has moved to a departmentalized model for English-language-learner instruction that gives each of three specialists responsibility for one language domain.
The change means students now receive 45 minutes of ELL instruction in a block of three 15-minute domain-specific sessions instead of 30 minutes spread across four domains, the team said. Teachers said the rotation allows deeper, more focused practice: one teacher concentrates on speaking and listening, another on…
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