Judie Haynes

The Importance of Body Language for Effective Oral Communication

For those educators who are teaching multilingual language learners (MLLs), body language is an important topic to address.

Author: Judie Haynes

8 Books to Read About Teaching MLLs

In my April blog, I listed seven online resources that I generally read under the #MLLCHAT hashtag on Twitter.

Author: Judie Haynes

7 Resources From the #MLLCHAT Community

I have long been an active member of a Twitter community that supports teachers of multilingual learners (MLLs).

Author: Judie Haynes

Optimizing Reading Comprehension for MLLS: 6 Strategies

When my school first adopted the Reading Workshop, a teaching method in which the goal is to teach students strategies for reading and comprehension, I became a proponent of this approach and worked to find ways to adapt it to the needs of multilingual learners (MLLs).

Author: Judie Haynes

6 Questions to Support Multilingual Learners in Learning Content-Area Vocabulary

If teachers of multilingual learners (MLLs), whether they are in the general education classroom or in an ESL class, want to help MLLs to understand content-area texts, they need to use strategies that help students gain new academic vocabulary. Here are six questions that teachers should ask themselves.

Author: Judie Haynes

8 Reasons Teachers Are Burned Out (And 4 Ways to Help)

Most U.S. schools moved to virtual learning in March 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic caused many sections of the country to shut down.

Author: Judie Haynes

4 Critical Strategies for Teaching Multilingual Learners

Recently, #MLLCHAT on Twitter had a dynamic discussion based on a new book by authors Andrea Honigsfeld, Maria Dove, Audrey Cohen, and Carrie McDermott Goldman entitled From Equity Insights to Action: Critical Strategies for Teaching Multilingual Learners.

Author: Judie Haynes

6 Strategies to Balance the Use of L1 and English in the ESL Classroom

During a recent Twitter chat, a teacher of multilingual learners (MLLs) wrote that she was struggling with a class of fifth and sixth graders who persisted in speaking their home language (Spanish) in class.

Author: Judie Haynes

4 More Ways to Support the Families of Multilingual Learners When School Opens

There are many reasons why families may not come to school for school programs and conferences about their children.

Author: Judie Haynes

5 Ways to Support the Families of Multilingual Learners When School Opens

As schools reopen around the United States, teachers and administrators need to consider how to how to support the families of multilingual learners (MLLs) with information for them in their home language. 

Author: Judie Haynes

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