540- reflection field experience

After completing your selected activities from the "ESL-540 SEI-Specific Practicum/Field Experience Required Activities" document, write a reflection about your learning and teaching experiences within all three categories (Introductory Activities, Collaborative Practice, and Independent Practice) to include a connection to the teaching preparation standards and SEI course framework. Your reflection should address the content learned throughout this course. Describe experiences you had throughout your ESL practicum/field experience that reflect effective instruction of English learners. In a minimum of 500 words, address the following:    

• Discuss strategies you or your mentor used to celebrate cultural diversity.
• Explain how you or your mentor utilized engagement practices to highlight the assets of home language and/or involve families.
• Discuss how RTI strategies were utilized to support ELs and what accommodations were available to support students, particularly with assessments.
• Describe how you or your mentor provided support to English learners in the classroom through a research-based SEI model.
• Discuss an experience you participated in and how this aligns with at least one of the principles of Arizona's Language Development Approach: (1) asset-based behaviors and expectations, (2) integrated instruction in disciplinary language and content, (2) targeted and explicit language instruction, and (4) assessment, monitoring, and feedback.
• Describe an experience you participated in where you helped design or implement an integrated or targeted lesson plan and discuss how this plan aligned with the ELA and ELP standards. 

Field Experience: obsevered a general education teacher with ELL students, focusing on developing ELL listening, speaking, and vocabulary

Below are the activities complete with the field experience:

Observed A teacher preparing a whole group lesson with mixed levels of English proficiency including proficient students

Co-plan with the mentor teacher a hands-on activity for a small group of both ELs and non-ELs.

Teach a reading comprehension skill to elementary ELs