Im Just A Teacher So What Do I Know

The 3rd CREDE standard is Connecting School to Students Lives. This to me is perhaps the most important standard. I feel that this important to any child, language learner or not. I know that most children do not store curriculum into their long term memory if they don't realize how it connects to THEIR own life. This is also a technique that will help ELL students master concepts more quickly if they are able to see concrete examples of the content they are learning.

I searched on Teacher Tube to find a lesson that is an example of what standard three is all about. Here is what I found....


Strategy number three on page 24 also goes along with standard three. The "Realia" strategies bring concrete objects into the classroom to build background knowledge and vocabulary. This also allows students to learn through the use of their senses. This helps support ELL learners in the classroom as well as lower level students with less real life experiences.